Education
| 1995 |
MFA, Hunter College of Art, City University of New York, NYC. |
| 1993 |
BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 1991 |
Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia. |
Selected exhibitions
| 2012 |
Site-seeing from left to right, exhibited as part of “Dance Undone: Repositioning Choreography in Contemporary Arts Practice" a series of dance performance installations curated by Tony Thatcher for Fabbrica Europa, Florence. |
2011 |
Crossing the Line, group exhibition, Tashkeel Gallery, Dubai. In - and outside- writing, participant & co-curator, group exhibition at Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium. |
2010 |
Analogy: Colour, Tone & Tint, The Global Centre for Drawing, RMIT, Melbourne. |
2009 |
Valse Wand (False Walls), group exhibition, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium. Interupted Correspondance/vice-versa: Five years Fragments, part of JTP '09, James Taylor Gallery, London. Graphic Longing, article featuring Kelly Chorpening and Peter Morrens in TH INK, a cahier dedicated to contemporary drawing, published by Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst, Ghent, Belgium. The Drawing Incident, symposium participant, Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst, Ghent, Belgium. |
| 2007 |
Vertigo Before Words, Solo Exhibition, Salon am Hof, Vienna. Here and Elsewhere, Camberwell College of Arts, London. Drawing 2007, The Drawing Room, London. London Assembly, Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. |
| 2006 |
Suspended Animation, Solo Exhibition, Shillam Smith Gallery, London. |
| 2005 |
Counterpoint Counterpunch, Kelly Chorpening and Jem MacKay, House Gallery, London. Workspace, Morley Gallery, London. Eight the Hard Way, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 2004 |
Showcase II: Painting and Sculpture, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri. Washington University Faculty Show, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri. Multi-media Invitational, St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, Missouri. |
| 2002 |
Contemporary Art Society Artfutures, City of London School, London. |
| 2001 |
Degrees of Separation, Kelly Chorpening and Natasha Sweeten, CACP Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. Arcadia, Group Exhibition, Paton Gallery, London. |
| 2000 |
Contemporary Art Society Artfutures, Barbican Art Gallery, London. Stuffed, Group Exhibition, Stuff Gallery, London. DIY: Variations on the theme of wallpaper, in a Grade II listed Georgian home, London. |
| 1999 |
If You Build It, They Will Come, Ramapo College of Art, Mahwah, New Jersey. Bankside Browser, Tate Gallery, St. Christopher House, London. New York-London-Tel Aviv, Kelly Chorpening and Tamara Gayer, Educational Alliance Gallery, New York City, New York. Compliments, Group Exhibition, Educational Alliance Gallery, New York City, New York. |
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & CURATORIAL PROJECTS
| 2012 |
Co-organiser & panelist: ‘What makes a good drawing?’, conference at The National Gallery, London. Speakers: Kelly Chorpening, Michael Landy, Professor Stephen Farthing, Michael Craig-Martin, Grayson Perry, Katharine Stout, Colin Wiggins. Drawing- in and outside- writing for ‘Drawing Out: 2012’, a conference organised by RMIT, Melbourne and the University of the Arts London. |
| 2011 |
Back to the Drawing Board for ‘Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East’, conference co-organised by RMIT, Melbourne & the American University in Dubai. Co-curator, ‘In – and outside – writing’ group exhibition as part of research project, Voorkamer, Lier. Drawing at higher levels, ‘Camera Lucida II’ conference to launch the UAL Qualifications in Drawing, held at the Royal Society, London. Co-curator, ‘Footprints across fresh snow’, cross-disciplinary drawing exhibition at Wimbledon Space, London. |
| 2010 |
Panellist for ‘Tracing Thought: working drawings - realising intention’ conference at the Jerwood Space, London. Participant: ‘Camera Lucida’ conference to launch the UAL Qualifications in Drawing, held at the Royal Society, London. |
| 2009 |
Speaker: ‘The Drawing Incident’, conference to launch TH INK a drawing publication produced by Sint-Lucas Art Academy, Ghent, Belgium. Speaker: ‘Procedures and Enquiries 2’, Symposium, Chelsea College of Art. |
Publications
| 2012 |
What is a good drawing?, co-editor, publication from conference of the same name at National Gallery London, a Bright series publication, CCW Graduate School, London. Drawing- in and outside- writing, limited edition artist book, an outcome of the research project of the same name between Kelly Chorpening, Rebecca Fortnum, Peter Morrens and Ans Nys, supported by OPAK, FAK, KULeuven with additional funding from the CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts London, published by RGAP and Sint-Lucas Visual Arts Ghent. Drawing- in and outside- writing, project summary cahier, published by OPAK, FAK, KULeuven, Belgium. |
| 2009 |
Graphic Longing, article featuring Kelly Chorpening and Peter Morrens in TH INK, a cahier dedicated to contemporary drawing, published by Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst, Ghent, Belgium. |