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EDUCATION
MFA – Painting, University at Albany, SUNY 2012
BS – Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2002
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
KennaXu Gallery, Shenzhen, China (co-organized with Chambers Fine Art, NYC) 2023
Patterns in Being, Dietel Gallery, Emma Willard School, Troy, NY 2023
Wave Lengths, Gold/Scopophilia* Montclair, NJ. 2022
Spin, Span, Spun Gold/Scopophilia* Montclair, NJ. 2020
Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY. 2020
Steady Curve Gold / Scopophilia*, Montclair, NJ. 2019
Slow Grow Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY. 2018
Painting Parallels, GRIDSPACE, Brooklyn, NY 2015
Recent Work and New Paintings on Paper Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY. 2012
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY (upcoming)
Brain Candy, Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY
Winter Group Show, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
2023
Elastic Bandwidth, McKenzie Fine Art, NYC
Transcendence, JDJ, NYC
Day Dreamers, Vivian Outlaw Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA
The Familiar Unknown, curated by Sue Muskat and Phil Knoll, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
Rearview Mirror, 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2022
Garden, Ladies Room, Los Angeles, CA (online)
Radical Chrome, Kenise Barnes, Kent CT
Mountain High, Valley Low, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Organs Without Bodies, Transmitter, NYC (2 person show curated by Genevieve Lowe)
Kaleidoscopic, Weeks Gallery, SUNY Jamestown, Jamestown, NY
Flat Files Deanna Evans Projects, NYC
Flat Files Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY
2021
The Big Show! My Pet Ram, NYC
I’ll Be Your Mirror University at Albany Collections Gallery
Future Memories, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT
Summer Idylle 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Sunrise/Sunset Albany International Airport
Light, Space, Dimension Mtn Space Gallery, Lake Worth Beach, FL
2020
Future Perfect 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, NY
If You Like This, You’ll Love That, Collar Works, Troy, NY
The Roaring Twenties, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2019
Under Time of Lampshades, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Abstraction, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT
Pulse: Color & Form in a Visual Rhythm Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
Gold / Scopophilia* Art on Paper, Pier 36, NYC
2018
Flow: Works by Alumni Artists from Mohawk Hudson Regional Exhibitions 2009-2017, University at Albany Art Museum
Three Square, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA (curated by Phil & Sue Knoll)
FENCE + ECHO, Far x Wide, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Jes Cannon)
In Bloom, 3rd Eye Gallery, Hoosick Falls, NY (curated by Simeon Youngmann)
Crazy Beautiful III Kenise Barnes Gallery, Larchmont, NY
2017
When We Were Young: Rethinking Abstraction from the University at Albany Art Collections (1967-present), University at Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY
Surface 4: Eun Young Choi, Crystal Gregory, Jenny Kemp, Gail LeBoff, Frank Webster, Curated by Renée Riccardo, ARENA at Brooklyn Dermatology, Brooklyn, NY
The Whitney Houston Biennial: Greatest Love of All, curated by Christine Finely, 325 West Broadway, NYC
2016
Reality is Wrong, Dreams are Real, David&Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Phil and Sue Knoll)
Squared, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA (curated by Phil & Sue Knoll)
Something Else, The Painting Center, New York, NY (curated by Dee Shapiro and Miriam Brumer)
Living Color, Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY (2 person)
2015
Howdy Doody, Collar Works, Troy, NY
Remains to be Seen, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA (curated by Phil & Sue Knoll)
Double Vision, Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY (2 person)
2015 Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
Valentine’s Day Cardiovascular Show, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Snowbird, Kenise Barnes Gallery, Larchmont, NY
Variations in Paint (invitational), The Painting Center, New York, NY
2014
100 Painters of Tomorrow: New York Exhibition, One Art Space, New York, NY
Mohawk Hudson Regional, Albany Institute of History and Art (juror: Stephen Westfall)
Tracery, PS209 Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY
Jenny Kemp and Jeff Mickey, Todd Art Gallery at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN (2 person)
Perceptions, Opalka Gallery at Sage College, Albany, NY
Modern Artists, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2013
Second Nature, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
Works by Jenny Kemp and Richard Harrington, Gallery 105, curated by MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA.
An Early Spring, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2012
FISSURE GalleryEll online exhibition, curated by Amanda Kates
In Orbit Little Gallery at Sage College, Albany, NY
Works on Paper Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
MFA National Competition First Street Gallery, NYC. Juror: John Yau
BioLogical Salem Art Works Carry House Gallery, Salem, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition University Art Museum, Albany, NY
2011
Back to School Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY
Chain Letter Samson Projects, Boston, MA
SUNY Best of Show New York State Museum, Albany, NY
Members Only Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY
Fountain Art Fair Pier 66, New York, NY
2010
Evergreen Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
Tomorrow’s Masters Today Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
2009
Under the Skin Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
White Hot Magazine, “Upstate Arts Weekend: Bigger and Better” September 2021 by Paul Laster
UAlbany Magazine Fine Arts Issue, Artist Feature Spring 2022
Chronogram Cover Feature, September 2019
New American Paintings Northeast Edition, #140 2019
University of Chicago Press “The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs” Cover image. 2019-2020
The Times Union “Vibrant Slow Grow Exhibit at Union College” by Amy Griffin. October 2018
The Daily Gazette “Curves, Lines Create Sense of Movement” by Indiana Nash. October 2018
The New England Review Cover Image July 2018
Studio Visit Magazine Winter 2016-17 Edition
The Times Union “Kemp and Garrison Shine at Troy’s Art Center of the Capital Region” March 2016
Design Milk “The Biology-Inspired Art of Jenny Kemp” August 2015
Saratoga Spotlight “Nature and MTV” May 2015
The Times Union “Mohawk Hudson Regional Highlights 3 Artists” by Amy Griffin April 2015
Wall Street International “Snowbird” March 2015
The Huffington Post “10 Painters Who Are Changing Their Medium in the 21st Century” by Katherine Brooks. October 2014.
100 Painters of Tomorrow, Beers.Lambert Gallery. Published by Thames & Hudson. 2014
The Times Union “Meet Visual Artist Jenny Kemp” by Amy Griffin. January 2014.
The Times Union “On Exhibit: ‘Second Nature’ at Albany Airport Gallery” by Amy Griffin. December 2013.
The New York Times Image chosen for gallery listings section (Westchester), Sunday, March 31, 2013
Apogee Poetry Magazine 7 pages. Spring 2012
City Arts Seattle “Sprouting” by Sarah Dillon. pp. Back page. November 2008
AWARDS AND HONORS
Sustainable Arts Foundation Individual Grant Finalist 2022
Painting Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2015
Emerging Artist Award The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY May 2015
Purchase Award Dr. Arthur N Collins ’48, University at Albany Alumni Found. for the UAlbany Museum, Mohawk Hudson Regional, Sept 2014
Board Member Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY. 2012 – present
TEACHING
Lecturer, Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 2022 - present
Adjunct Professor Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 2021/22
Adjunct Professor University at Albany, Albany, NY 2017-2021
Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT Fall 2014/15 & 2019
Visiting Professor Union College, Schenectady, NY 2018/19. & 2021/22
RESIDENCIES
Alfred/Düsseldorf Summer Residency, Düsseldorf, Germany June 2024
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA July 2024
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY July 2019
Contemporary Artist Center Woodside, Troy, NY. June-July 2011
VISITING ARTIST EVENTS AND TALKS
Artist Lecture Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs. NY
Cameron Visiting Artist Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT May 2018
Gouache Painting Workshop Google NYC, April 2016
Artist Talk Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY February 2016
Artist Talk Sage College of Albany, Albany, NY April 2015
Artist Talk University at Albany, Albany, NY. April 2014
Visiting Artist St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN. February 2013
CURATING
Informal Language Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY January-March 2017
Cascadia Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY May 2013
Percolate! Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY. July 2012 Co-curated with Jake Winiski
Pursuant Pharaohs Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY. September, 2011 Co-curated with Georgia Wohnsen
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Schick Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
University at Albany, Albany, NY
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Fidelity Investments