About

Kelly Chorpening was born in the USA and has an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York and BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. In 2016 she was shortlisted for both the Derwent and Jerwood drawing prizes and had a solo exhibition at Horatio Jr., London. Many of her projects are co-developed as books, published by Studio International (USA), RGAP (UK), Sint-Lucas Visual Arts and OPAK, FAK, KULeuven (Belgium). She co-edited and contributed to A Companion to Contemporary Drawing, a volume of newly commissioned writing on contemporary fine art drawing, published by Wiley Blackwell in 2021. She has been an invited speaker for universities and museums throughout the world, including Borough Road Gallery, ICA London, National Gallery London, Tate Britain, RMIT Melbourne, American University Dubai, Royal Society London and Paradox European Fine Art Forum (Poznan, Poland and Granada, Spain). Her teaching of drawing extends beyond art to students of archaeology (The New School and New York University), engineering (Kings College London), architecture (The AA Schools) and choreography (Trinity Laban). She was Course Leader of BA (Hons) Drawing and then Programme Director in Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London and is currently Professor and Chair of Art, Art History and Design at University of Nevada Reno.