EDUCATION​
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2005 M.F.A. Photography. Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT
2002 B.A. Psychology. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS (select)
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2021 Kevin Van Aelst, 2021 Solo, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2020 The Lifespan of a Fact, Theater Works Gallery, Hartford, CT
2018 Impossible Shapes, Space Place Gallery, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2017 Fathom, Wood Memorial Museum and Gallery, Windsor, CT
2015 EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT
2014 Searching For Sea Monsters, Kohn-Joseloff Gallery, Cheshire, CT
2012 Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
Stonecrop Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
Elsewhere, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2011 Transit Gallery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
M. Eleanore Juros Gallery, Kingswood-Oxford School, West Hartford, CT
2010 Elsewhere, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, CT
2009 Catalogue 4.25.09, Catalgue Gallery, Hartford, CT
2008 Minutia, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT
2007 Phases of the Moon and Other Lessons of Science, Khaki Gallery, Wellesley, MA
2005 Step Up, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Silpe Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (select)
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2021 It's All About Process, Five Points Center for the Visual Arts, Torrington, CT
2018 Space. Travel, Perspectives Gallery, Hamden, CT
2017 Cool and Collected, Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex, CT
2015 Virtual Reality (two person show), River Street Gallery, New Haven, CT
Comforts of Home, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Seeing Things: Seven Photographers, Adolf and Virgina Dehn Gallery, Manchester, CT
Por Oaxaca, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
Wicked Winter, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
New Construction: Six Photographers, Windsor Art Center, Windsor, CT
2013 Futurecast, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Still Action! Gallery 1708, Richmond, VA
Contemporary Cartographies, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Time and Time Again, Transit Gallery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2012 Rendered Extraordinary, Broad Street Gallery, Hartford, CT
It’s Your Nature, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, CT
Disperse and Converge, Artspace Hartford, Hartford, CT
Summer Group Exhibition Extravaganza, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
Family Haunts, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
Double Oversight, Gallery 70, New Haven, CT
Material Measure, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
Toys and Games, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville MA
2011 I think it’s Conceptual, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
Bingo, Sharpshooters Studio, Knoxville, TN
Gala Benefit, Artspace, New Haven, CT
New Britain Museum of American Art Benefit Gala, New Britain, CT
Across the Divide: Critical Mass 2010, Photolucida Touring Exhibition
Paper or Plastic, Bridgeport Arts and Cultural Council, Bridgeport, Connecticut
2010 Flash Forward 2010, Magenta Foundation Festival of Emerging Photographers, Traveling
Artist as Curator, Kehler Liddel Gallery, New Haven, CT
Artplace XVI, Yale Physician’s Building, New Haven, CT
Conspectus I, Artspace, New Haven, CT
New Visions, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Matters of Pattern, Grant Recipient Exhibition, CCT, Hartford, CT
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Photography Instructor, Educational Center for the Arts Magnet High School, 2007 - present
Digital and Darkroom Photography
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Southern Connecticut State University, Spring 2016 - present
AR 264 Digital Photography
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Quinnipiac University, Spring 2006 – Spring 2011
ART 158 Photography I
ART 250/255 Introduction to Black and White Photography
ART 300 Digital Photography
Adjunct Professor, Middlesex Community College, Spring 2007
Art 141 Photography 1
Adjunct Professor, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Fall 2005
Photography 220: Introduction to Black and White Photography
Photography Instructor, Willard Straight Hall Community Darkroom, Cornell University,
September 2000 – May 2002.
Teaching Assistant, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Fall 2005
The View Camera, Color Photography
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COLLECTIONS
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Artspace Flatfile, New Haven, CT
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AWARDS AND GRANTS
Flash Forward U.S. Winner, the Magenta Foundation, 2015
Goodman Banks Artist In Residence, Kingswood Oxford School, West Hartford, CT 2011
Critical Mass Top 50 finalist, Photolucida, 2010
Flash Forward U.S. Winner, the Magenta Foundation, 2010
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Artist Fellowship Grant, 2008
Northeast Exposure Online, Featured Artist: August, 2008
Visiting Artist Honoraria: Tunxis Community College, 2019, University of New Haven, 2014-15, Harvard Medical School, 2010, Hartford Art School, 2010, Southern Connecticut State University, 2008
Milford Fine Arts Council Artist in Residence: 2006-2007, Milford, CT
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