Kimberly Convery
www.kimberlyconveryart.com
The Artist Studio Building 416
536 Congress Street Portland, Maine, 04101 KimberlyConvery@gmail.com
207-233-9473
Education and Residencies
2005, BFA, Maine College of Art, Illustration Major, Drawing Minor2017, Reniassnce Art and Architecture Course, SMCC, Ferrara Italy
2016, Haystack, Open Door Residency, October, Mount Desert Island, Maine 2015, Penland School of Crafts, Winter Residency, North Carolina
2015, Studios at MassMoCA/ Assets for Artists Residency, November
2015, Haystack, Open Door Residency, September, Mount Desert Island
Maine
2012-2014, Hewnoaks Art Colony, Lovell Maine,
2008, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
Selected Exhibitions
2017, I like Jazz now, Solo Show, Maine College of Art
2017, Jazz, Solo Exhibition, Akari Portland Maine
2016, Wake Up Alice, Portland Public Library, Group show in honor of the
centennial year of Alice in wonderland
2016, Finale, Group exhibition.
June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
2015, Everything you know is True Redux, Solo Exhibition, Charles C.
Thomas Gallery, Maine College of Art
2015, MECA Collect, Exhibition to support Maine College of Art
Scolarship fund.
2015, Summer Salon, 4 Artist Show, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Maine 2015, Everything you know is True, Solo Exhibition, Engine Gallery,
Biddeford Maine
2015, Intricate Worlds, Engine Gallery, Group Show
2014, Squiggles, St. Lawrence Art Center, Solo Exhibition.
2013, 5 Artists, Group Exhibition, Ed Pollack a Fine Thing,
Portland, Maine
2013, Pity the Clouds, Solo Exhibition, Mayo Street Arts,
Portland, Maine
2012, New Work, Local 188, Portland, Maine
2012, The Vinyl Show, Group Exhibition, ENGINE Gallery, Biddeford, Maine
2012, Lines, Ciphers and Spheres, With Jay Sawyer and James Chute, ENGINE Gallery, Biddeford Maine, August
2012, Portes, Tetra Projects, Group Exhibition, Space Gallery,
Portland, Maine and Municipal Art Gallery of Mytilne, Greece 2012, MERC, Group Exhibition, Engine Gallery, Biddeford, Maine 2012, Free for All, Salon Exhibition, Space Gallery, Portland Maine 2011, Drawing the Line #10, Group Exhibition, The June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland
2011, Dinamik Simetre, Group Exhibition, 3 Fish Gallery, Portland, Maine
2011, Drawing the line #7, Group Exhibition, The June Fitzpatrick
Gallery, Portland.
2011, The Drawing Story, Group Exhibition, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell,
Maine
2011, Audition, Group Exhibition, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine
2010, Some Things Curious, Exhibition with Kreh Mellick, Space Gallery,
Portland, Maine
2010, Maine, the way life should be, Group Exhibition, The Fore River Gallery,
Portland, Maine
2010, Clouds, Solo Exhibition, Verbena, South Portland, Maine
2010, Vignettes, Solo Exhibition, Portland, Maine
2010, New Drawings, Ed Pollack a Fine Thing, Portland, Maine
2009, Summertime, Selected Group exhibition, Ed Pollack a Fine Thing, Portland, Maine 2008, Group show, 30 Romasco Street, Portland, Maine
2008, ARCADE, installation, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine
2007, Salon Show, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine
2007, Night of 1,000 Drawings, the Artist Space Gallery, NY, NY
2005, Round One, Group exhibition, Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2006, Overwhelmed, Solo Exhibition, Local 188, Portland, Maine
2005, Maine College of Art BFA show, ICA, Portland, Maine
Installations and Special Projects
2017, Drawn In, ENGINE, Biddeford Maine, Window Installation and Performance.
2016, You Can’t Take the Clouds, Port City Music Hall, window installation
2015, This Nothing Might Matter, Space Gallery front window installation
2013, Airplane Fight, Performance, Sacred and Profane, Peaks Island Battery Steele 2012, Night Light, Artists in the Galleries, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine 2012, Artist Intervention #1, Artists in the Galleries, Portland Museum
of Art, Portland,
2011, The Big Draw, Artist Family Event, Portland Museum of Art,
Portland, Maine
2011, In Between, 7th Annual Alumni Print Project, Maine College of Art,
Portland, Maine
2011, Block Party, Installation Grant recipient, Space Gallery,
Portland Maine
2011, Draw your face off, Drawing in the Gallery, Space Gallery,
Portland, Maine
2012, Never-ending Chains, Installation, Sacred and Profane, Peaks Island Battery
Steele, Maine
2011, Tiny Clambers, Installation, Sacred and Profane, Peaks Island Battery Steele, Maine
2010, Lightly there, Installation, Sacred and Profane, Peaks Island Battery Steele, Maine
2007, City View, Window Installation, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine
2006, Picked up, Installation, Sacred and Profane, Peaks Island Battery Steele,
Maine
2006-2008, MENSK, Portland non-profit to encourage arts. Mobile gallery
curator/organizer, Portland, Maine
Publications
2009, Cafe Review, Portland Maine, Publication, Contributor
2011, Words and Images, Contributor, Publication, University of Southern Maine
2011, The Woman Next Door, Marcopoloquaterly.com, selected artist. 2012, Remote control, Broadsheet Magazine, issue #2, Portrait artist, Portland, Maine
2012, Exit Strata, Issue #1, Fluxus Art publication, Cover artist and contributor, Brooklyn, New York
2016, Warhol to Audibaun, Catalog of the Collection of Edward T Pollack
Grants
2015,A
assets for Artists, MassMoca, grant funding for building assets for artists.
2010, Space Gallery Block Party installation grant
Bibliography
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