Summary
Kelly Chorpening is an artist, curator, writer and educator. Her primary interest is drawing, both in and outside w88 slot online. Before joining UNR in 2022, she was the Course Leader for BA Fine w88 slot online: Drawing (2006-2019), and then Programme Director of Fine w88 slot online (2019-2022) at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL (University of the Arts London), UK. She was a UAL Teaching Scholar from 2017-2020. Her interdisciplinary work has involved regular collaborations with the Architectural Association, Trinity Laban Conservatory of Music, the Gordon Museum of Pathology and the National Gallery, London. She has given conference presentations in the UK at: National Gallery London, Tate Britain, the ICA, Borough Road Gallery and Royal Society, and beyond: College w88 slot online Association, Carnegie Mellon University, RMIT Melbourne, the American University Dubai, Paris College of w88 slot online, and for Paradox Fine w88 slot online European Forum in PoznaĆ, Poland and Granada, Spain.
Research interests
Practice-based interdisciplinary research projects include:
- "Drawing in Social Space," (2022-2023) a curatorial project, working with Renee Odjidja and Misty Ingham, in collaboration with Drawing Room London, Camberwell College of w88 slot online and University of Nevada Reno, and involving artists and communities from around the UK, USA, Bolivia, Netherlands, Ghana and Morocco
- "Between thought and space," (2014-2015) co-produced with Miraj Ahmed, with exhibitions and events at Camberwell College of Arts, Architectural Association and Dilston Grove, CGP, London; collective research working across w88 slot online, architecture, sound and dance
- Drawing - in and outside- writing, (2011-2012), a project between Kelly Chorpening, Rebecca Fortnum, Peter Morrens and Ans Nys, with two publications of the same name (one published by KULeuven, the other published jointly by RGAP, UK, and Sint-Lucas Visual w88 slot online Ghent, Belgium), and a large-scale exhibition at Voorkamer in Lier, Belgium
Selected w88 slot online
- A Companion to Contemporary w88 slot online, 2020 [co-authored with Rebecca Fortnum] Wiley Blackwell
- Associate Editor: Journey of Contemporary Painting, Intellect Books
Notable exhibitions and curations
- "A w88 slot online of Drawing," 2018, curator and exhibitor, Camberwell Space, London
- "Immaterial Statements, 2016," solo exhibition, Horatio Jr., w88 slot online
- Selected for Jerwood w88 slot online Prize & Derwent w88 slot online Prize, 2016, touring exhibitions, London
- "Between thought and space," 2015, co-curator and exhibitor, Dilston Grove, Southwark Park, w88 slot online
- "In - and outside- writing," 2011, co-curator and exhibitor, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
- "Vertigo Before Words," 2006, solo w88 slot online, Salon am Hof, Vienna
- "Suspended Animation," 2006, solo exhibition, Shillam Smith Gallery, w88 slot online
Education
- MFA, Hunter College, City w88 slot online New York
- BFA, Cleveland Institute of w88 slot online