EDUCATION
MFA, Painting, American University, Washington, D.C 2001
American University Graduate Study Abroad Program, Corciano, Italy, Fall1999
Summer Program, School of Art, Chautauqua Art Institute, Chautauqua, NY, 1998, 2000
BFA, Asbury University, Wilmore, KY 1999
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Seen/ Unseen, Neon Heater Gallery, Findlay, OH
2004 Colleen Kelsey: Painting and Drawing, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
1999 Colleen Kelsey: Merit Exhibition, The Annex Gallery, Asbury College, Wilmore, KY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Still they Persist: Protest Art from the Women’s Marches, ProArts, Oakland, CA
2018 Still they Persist: Protest Art from the Women’s Marches, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY; Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
2017 Small Works, Dayton Society of Artists, Dayton, OH
Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, University Gallery at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Show 43: Soft Animal, Field Projects, Be Fluent NYC, New York, NY
Still they Persist: Protest Art from the Women’s Marches, Touring Exhibition: Contemporary Art Museum Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Lexington Arts League, Lexington, KY; Wavepool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1000 Prints, The Blue House, Dayton, OH
Gleaning, Radial Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2016 Stories and Studies: Colleen Kelsey & Jeremy Long, Grace Albrecht Gallery, Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio, December 2016
Diverge and Converge, Gallery 249, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
1000 Prints, The Blue House, Dayton, OH
Votes for Women, Kelsey Projects, Dayton, OH
5.4 Million and Counting, Project by artist Chi Nguyen, Textile Arts Center, NYC traveling social/ politicalpiece
Dayton Racquet Club, Kettering Tower, Dayton, OH, Curated by Amy Kollar Anderson
Artist by Artist, The Blue House, Dayton, Ohio. Curated by Erin Holscher Almazan & Seth Wade
Members Exhibition, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH
Courtney Huber, Colleen Kelsey & Emily Sites, Phyllis Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Works on Paper, Rosewood Art Gallery, Kettering, OH Juror: Susan Li O'Connor
Women Do It! Postcard Exhibition: Phase 2, WCA's International Caucus and its UN Program "He for She" Campaign, Women's
Caucus for the Arts 2015 Traveling Exhibition and Online Gallery. Traveling: United Nations' Commission on the Status of
Women Conference in New York City, United Nations DPI/NGO conference; then to the February 2016 WCA National
Conference in Washington DC; to the March 2016, Women's History Month exhibition at the St. Louis Florissant Valley
Community College; and finally to the Arc Project, Gallery exhibition in San Francisco from May 7 - June 4, 2016.
2015-16 Portrait, Phyllis Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2015 Unearthed, Gallery 249, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Faculty Exhibition, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
Mail Art, Mail Art Exhibition, Folkestone's Creative Quarter, Kent, England. Curator: Kevin Gillen, James Gillen
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Juried Visual Art Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA. Juror: Astria Suparak
Sideshow X, Yellow Cab Building, Dayton, OH
Dayton Area Works on Paper, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH. Juror: Sean Wilkinson. Awarded Best in Show
2014 Art Ed: An Art Educator's Exhibition, Rosewood Gallery, Rosewood Art Centre, Kettering, OH
Sideshow 9#, Yellow Cab Building, Dayton, OH, temporary wall drawing installation
Dayton Area Works on Paper, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH
2010 Drawn to Life: Reformatted, Emmanuel d’Alzon Library, Assumption College, Worcester, MA
Drawn to Life, ARTSWorcester, Worcester, MA
2009 12 x 12 x 100: 100 Years of Visual Arts at Chautauqua Arts at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua Art Institute Gallery,
Chautauqua, NY
2008 Faculty Past and Present Knox College, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
Faculty Exhibition, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2007 Colleen Kelsey: Projects, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Colleen Kelsey, Alex Lu, Hollis Brown Thornton, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Faculty Exhibition, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
2004 Out of a Corner, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 The Artboat with Bridge Magazine, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (brochure)
2001 Small Sculptures: National Society of Arts and Letters, Carnegie Mellon Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Colleen Kelsey, Thesis Exhibition, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC
Passages, Studio 7, Washington, DC
Curve: Art of the Female Desire, Signal 66 Gallery, Washington, DC
First Sight, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC
2000 Art Romp 10, Washington, DC
Logan Gallery, Chautauqua Art Institute, Chautauqua, NY
Project Space, Washington, DC
Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC
1999 Commune di Corciano, Corciano, Italy
1998 Logan Gallery, Chautauqua Art Institute, Chautauqua, NY
Juried All Kentucky University Open, Lexington, KY (brochure)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Discovery Classical, Dayton 88.2 Arts Focus interview with Larry Coressel, Ran 2017-18
Jim Hannah, Mail call: Wright State's Colleen Kelsey teaching students the skill of mail art, Wright State University, Dialogue Magazine, December, 2015
Shayna V. McConville's, Dayton Arts Blog, "Pop-Up Art and New Spaces: KP Project 1" November 16, 2015
Pam Dillion, "Pop-Up Art Galleries, support local, regional artists, Dayton Daily News, November 15, 2015
Tristan Navera "Artist Colleen Kelsey bringing 'pop up' gallery to Dayton", Dayton Business Journal, November 2015
Brian Barr "Art Professor launches 'pop up' Gallery featuring local, regional works at Front Street Warehouse" Oakwood Register, November 2015
Sarah Dawood, "Mail Art by Various Artists, Design Week, www.designweek.co.uk, September 4, 2015
"56th Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival Announces Juried Visual Art Exhibition Awards", Broadway World, June 4, 2015
Kurt Shaw, "Three Rivers Arts Festival exhibit celebrates new views", Trib Live, June 6, 2015
"Mail Art Exhibition Announcement", Love Folkestone, May 23, 2015
"Dayton X, Dayton Free Art and Music Show: 5 Reasons to Go", Dayton.com, May, 2015
Lisa Benett, "Blood, Sweat and Success", Dayton City Paper, May 5, 2015
Pamela Dillon, "Works on Paper: Show Celebrates 25th year", Dayton Daily News. January 31, 2015
Don Thrasher, "Sideshow 9 displays Dayton’s eclectic creativityCircus Creative Collective presents its annual event." Dayton Daily News, May 4, 2014
"Drawn to Life- draws the line", Worcester Magazine, Night and Day Section, July10, 2010
Deanna Isaacs, "Avast! It's Artboat!/Critic's Left Ashore/Smart Move/In Other News..." Chicago Reader: Arts. March, 2003
Lisa Stein, "Art Chicago alternatives exist in odd places", Chicago Tribune, May 09, 2003
"Colleen Kelsey: National Small Sculpture Competition", Geocity. 2001
"National Society of Arts and Letters: smallSCULPTURE2001 - a national competition of works by emerging artists", Absolute Arts: World Wide Arts Resource. March 2001
Michael O’Sullivan, “On Exhibit”, Washington Post, October 6, 2000
Louis Jacobson, “City Lights: Art Romp”, Washington City Paper, September 15, 2000
Michael O’Sullivan, “On Exhibit: Art Romp”, Washington Post, September 9, 2000
Ferdinand Protzman, “Galleries: Art Romp”, Washington Post, September, 2000
EDUCATION
MFA, Painting, American University, Washington, D.C, 2001
American University Graduate Study Abroad Program, Corciano, Italy, Fall, 1999
Summer Program, School of Art, Chautauqua Art Institute, Chautauqua, NY, 1998, 2000
BFA, Asbury College, Wilmore, KY, 1999
VISITING ARTIST AND LECTURES
2017 University of Toledo, Fine Arts Center, Toledo, OH
2016 Guest Panelist on Independent & Commercial Art Spaces, Getting into the Game, Rosewood Arts Center, Kettering, OH
2015 Wright State University, Art & Art History Department, Dayton, OH
2004 Western Illinois University, Art Department, Macomb, IL
2004 Panel Debate “The Women’s Body”, Lecture “Three Contemporary Women”
2000 Visiting Professor, Two Sessions, Jeneen Piccuirro, Studio Experience, American University, Washington, DC
AWARDS
2015 Best in Show, Works on Paper, Dayton Area Artists, Rosewood Gallery, Rosewood Arts Centre, Kettering, OH
2002 CAAP Grant, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
2001 National Society of Arts and Letters: Small Sculpture Exhibition, Chapter of Washington, DC,
Maryland, and Virginia. Jurors: Chief Curator Hirshorn Museum of Art Kerry Brouger, Art Critic of Washington Post Ferdinan Protzman
1999 – 2001 Merit Scholar Award, American University, Washington, DC
COLLECTIONS
Sara Vance Waddell, Private Collection, Cincinnati, OH
Bon-joon and Young Koo, Private Collection, CEO LG Corp.
Mary King, Private Collection, Cincinnati, OH
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2016 Votes for Women, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH August 18-26th
Feed the Adjunct Pop-UP, Front Street Warehouse, Dayton, OH Friday, May 20th
The DIG, Miami Township Library, Miamisburg, OH, April 1-30th
The DIG Pop-UP @ Front Street Warehouse March 4th- 11th
Edge of Reason. Warped Wing Brewery, Dayton, OH, February 2nd- March 4
2015 PROJECT 1. Front Street Warehouse, Dayton, OH, November 15th- 22nd
MFA, Painting, American University, Washington, D.C 2001
American University Graduate Study Abroad Program, Corciano, Italy, Fall1999
Summer Program, School of Art, Chautauqua Art Institute, Chautauqua, NY, 1998, 2000
BFA, Asbury University, Wilmore, KY 1999
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Seen/ Unseen, Neon Heater Gallery, Findlay, OH
2004 Colleen Kelsey: Painting and Drawing, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
1999 Colleen Kelsey: Merit Exhibition, The Annex Gallery, Asbury College, Wilmore, KY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Still they Persist: Protest Art from the Women’s Marches, ProArts, Oakland, CA
2018 Still they Persist: Protest Art from the Women’s Marches, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY; Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
2017 Small Works, Dayton Society of Artists, Dayton, OH
Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, University Gallery at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Show 43: Soft Animal, Field Projects, Be Fluent NYC, New York, NY
Still they Persist: Protest Art from the Women’s Marches, Touring Exhibition: Contemporary Art Museum Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Lexington Arts League, Lexington, KY; Wavepool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1000 Prints, The Blue House, Dayton, OH
Gleaning, Radial Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2016 Stories and Studies: Colleen Kelsey & Jeremy Long, Grace Albrecht Gallery, Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio, December 2016
Diverge and Converge, Gallery 249, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
1000 Prints, The Blue House, Dayton, OH
Votes for Women, Kelsey Projects, Dayton, OH
5.4 Million and Counting, Project by artist Chi Nguyen, Textile Arts Center, NYC traveling social/ politicalpiece
Dayton Racquet Club, Kettering Tower, Dayton, OH, Curated by Amy Kollar Anderson
Artist by Artist, The Blue House, Dayton, Ohio. Curated by Erin Holscher Almazan & Seth Wade
Members Exhibition, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH
Courtney Huber, Colleen Kelsey & Emily Sites, Phyllis Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Works on Paper, Rosewood Art Gallery, Kettering, OH Juror: Susan Li O'Connor
Women Do It! Postcard Exhibition: Phase 2, WCA's International Caucus and its UN Program "He for She" Campaign, Women's
Caucus for the Arts 2015 Traveling Exhibition and Online Gallery. Traveling: United Nations' Commission on the Status of
Women Conference in New York City, United Nations DPI/NGO conference; then to the February 2016 WCA National
Conference in Washington DC; to the March 2016, Women's History Month exhibition at the St. Louis Florissant Valley
Community College; and finally to the Arc Project, Gallery exhibition in San Francisco from May 7 - June 4, 2016.
2015-16 Portrait, Phyllis Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2015 Unearthed, Gallery 249, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Faculty Exhibition, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
Mail Art, Mail Art Exhibition, Folkestone's Creative Quarter, Kent, England. Curator: Kevin Gillen, James Gillen
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Juried Visual Art Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA. Juror: Astria Suparak
Sideshow X, Yellow Cab Building, Dayton, OH
Dayton Area Works on Paper, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH. Juror: Sean Wilkinson. Awarded Best in Show
2014 Art Ed: An Art Educator's Exhibition, Rosewood Gallery, Rosewood Art Centre, Kettering, OH
Sideshow 9#, Yellow Cab Building, Dayton, OH, temporary wall drawing installation
Dayton Area Works on Paper, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH
2010 Drawn to Life: Reformatted, Emmanuel d’Alzon Library, Assumption College, Worcester, MA
Drawn to Life, ARTSWorcester, Worcester, MA
2009 12 x 12 x 100: 100 Years of Visual Arts at Chautauqua Arts at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua Art Institute Gallery,
Chautauqua, NY
2008 Faculty Past and Present Knox College, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
Faculty Exhibition, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2007 Colleen Kelsey: Projects, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Colleen Kelsey, Alex Lu, Hollis Brown Thornton, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Faculty Exhibition, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
2004 Out of a Corner, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 The Artboat with Bridge Magazine, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (brochure)
2001 Small Sculptures: National Society of Arts and Letters, Carnegie Mellon Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Colleen Kelsey, Thesis Exhibition, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC
Passages, Studio 7, Washington, DC
Curve: Art of the Female Desire, Signal 66 Gallery, Washington, DC
First Sight, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC
2000 Art Romp 10, Washington, DC
Logan Gallery, Chautauqua Art Institute, Chautauqua, NY
Project Space, Washington, DC
Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC
1999 Commune di Corciano, Corciano, Italy
1998 Logan Gallery, Chautauqua Art Institute, Chautauqua, NY
Juried All Kentucky University Open, Lexington, KY (brochure)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Discovery Classical, Dayton 88.2 Arts Focus interview with Larry Coressel, Ran 2017-18
Jim Hannah, Mail call: Wright State's Colleen Kelsey teaching students the skill of mail art, Wright State University, Dialogue Magazine, December, 2015
Shayna V. McConville's, Dayton Arts Blog, "Pop-Up Art and New Spaces: KP Project 1" November 16, 2015
Pam Dillion, "Pop-Up Art Galleries, support local, regional artists, Dayton Daily News, November 15, 2015
Tristan Navera "Artist Colleen Kelsey bringing 'pop up' gallery to Dayton", Dayton Business Journal, November 2015
Brian Barr "Art Professor launches 'pop up' Gallery featuring local, regional works at Front Street Warehouse" Oakwood Register, November 2015
Sarah Dawood, "Mail Art by Various Artists, Design Week, www.designweek.co.uk, September 4, 2015
"56th Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival Announces Juried Visual Art Exhibition Awards", Broadway World, June 4, 2015
Kurt Shaw, "Three Rivers Arts Festival exhibit celebrates new views", Trib Live, June 6, 2015
"Mail Art Exhibition Announcement", Love Folkestone, May 23, 2015
"Dayton X, Dayton Free Art and Music Show: 5 Reasons to Go", Dayton.com, May, 2015
Lisa Benett, "Blood, Sweat and Success", Dayton City Paper, May 5, 2015
Pamela Dillon, "Works on Paper: Show Celebrates 25th year", Dayton Daily News. January 31, 2015
Don Thrasher, "Sideshow 9 displays Dayton’s eclectic creativityCircus Creative Collective presents its annual event." Dayton Daily News, May 4, 2014
"Drawn to Life- draws the line", Worcester Magazine, Night and Day Section, July10, 2010
Deanna Isaacs, "Avast! It's Artboat!/Critic's Left Ashore/Smart Move/In Other News..." Chicago Reader: Arts. March, 2003
Lisa Stein, "Art Chicago alternatives exist in odd places", Chicago Tribune, May 09, 2003
"Colleen Kelsey: National Small Sculpture Competition", Geocity. 2001
"National Society of Arts and Letters: smallSCULPTURE2001 - a national competition of works by emerging artists", Absolute Arts: World Wide Arts Resource. March 2001
Michael O’Sullivan, “On Exhibit”, Washington Post, October 6, 2000
Louis Jacobson, “City Lights: Art Romp”, Washington City Paper, September 15, 2000
Michael O’Sullivan, “On Exhibit: Art Romp”, Washington Post, September 9, 2000
Ferdinand Protzman, “Galleries: Art Romp”, Washington Post, September, 2000
EDUCATION
MFA, Painting, American University, Washington, D.C, 2001
American University Graduate Study Abroad Program, Corciano, Italy, Fall, 1999
Summer Program, School of Art, Chautauqua Art Institute, Chautauqua, NY, 1998, 2000
BFA, Asbury College, Wilmore, KY, 1999
VISITING ARTIST AND LECTURES
2017 University of Toledo, Fine Arts Center, Toledo, OH
2016 Guest Panelist on Independent & Commercial Art Spaces, Getting into the Game, Rosewood Arts Center, Kettering, OH
2015 Wright State University, Art & Art History Department, Dayton, OH
2004 Western Illinois University, Art Department, Macomb, IL
2004 Panel Debate “The Women’s Body”, Lecture “Three Contemporary Women”
2000 Visiting Professor, Two Sessions, Jeneen Piccuirro, Studio Experience, American University, Washington, DC
AWARDS
2015 Best in Show, Works on Paper, Dayton Area Artists, Rosewood Gallery, Rosewood Arts Centre, Kettering, OH
2002 CAAP Grant, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
2001 National Society of Arts and Letters: Small Sculpture Exhibition, Chapter of Washington, DC,
Maryland, and Virginia. Jurors: Chief Curator Hirshorn Museum of Art Kerry Brouger, Art Critic of Washington Post Ferdinan Protzman
1999 – 2001 Merit Scholar Award, American University, Washington, DC
COLLECTIONS
Sara Vance Waddell, Private Collection, Cincinnati, OH
Bon-joon and Young Koo, Private Collection, CEO LG Corp.
Mary King, Private Collection, Cincinnati, OH
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2016 Votes for Women, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH August 18-26th
Feed the Adjunct Pop-UP, Front Street Warehouse, Dayton, OH Friday, May 20th
The DIG, Miami Township Library, Miamisburg, OH, April 1-30th
The DIG Pop-UP @ Front Street Warehouse March 4th- 11th
Edge of Reason. Warped Wing Brewery, Dayton, OH, February 2nd- March 4
2015 PROJECT 1. Front Street Warehouse, Dayton, OH, November 15th- 22nd
