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EDUCATION

2005   M.F.A. Photography.  Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT

2002   B.A. Psychology.  Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS (select)

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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (select)

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

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

COLLECTIONS

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

Artspace Flatfile, New Haven, CT

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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