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Selena Kimball
*USA

UPCOMING
| New York |
January 28, 2010, 6.30 - 9 pm
   The benefit event is taking place at 'Jack Shainman Gallery',
   513 West 20th Street (10th Ave), Chelsea, NYC
BUY WHAT YOU LOVE ->
8 1/2 x 11 Drawings, Collages, and Mixed Media Work
The Rena Hort Mann Foundation ->
200+ affordable artworks by established and emerging artists from around
the world. A benefit event in support of cancer patinets and visual artists.



BIOGRAPHY
2007    Hunter College, New York, NY, MFA, Combined Media
1997    Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. BFA, with honors
1993/5 Brown University, Providence, RI, Liberal Arts Courses

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009   The New World, Juried Spring Solo Show, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
2007   The Dreaming Life of Leonora de la Cruz, in collaboration with Agnieszka
             Taborska. Reid Hall, Paris (France), Traveling Exhibition: PhotoGraphic
             Gallery, New York, NY
2004   Krytyków Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2001   The Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2001   Fragments of the Ordinary, Romanian Cultural Center, New York, NY, in
            collaboration with Alyssa Grossman. Traveling Exhibition: Hudson
            Museum, University of Maine, Orono, ME, Museum of the Romanian
            Peasant, Bucharest, Romania, as part of the exhibition Attitudes,
            Artifacts and Images

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009   Parlor, Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, NY
         Inferno, curated by Leslie Rosa-Stumpf, Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City,            Mexico
         tART @ A.I.R., A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
         Personally Political, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
         As Such As Well As An Assumption, T.B.D., Brooklyn, NY
         Pack, Prospect Range, Brooklyn, NY
         Me, Me, Me, Sixth Edition PooL Art Fair, New York, NY
2008  Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
         Summer Salon Show , Rabbitholestudios, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
         Invented Archives, School of the Art Institute of Chicago online
2007   Open Studios, Mairie du 6e, Paris, France
         SDCA, Space Gallery, New York, NY
         A Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
         A History of Things I Remember but Will Never See. MFA Thesis Show, Times
           Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
2006   International Flipbook Festival, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland, England
          Traveling Exhibition: Space 1026, Philadelphia, Pa, Little Cakes Gallery,
             Brooklyn NY, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
          Parallel, The Design Center, New York, NY
2005   MA's Select MFA's, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
          Peace, The Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2004   Your Heart is No Match for My Love, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2002   20th Annual National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie County Arts Council,
             New York
         First Triennial Sculpture Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, Rhode
            Island
2000   Collages and Such, Po Gallery, Providence, Rhode Islan

COLLAGE NOVELS
2007   The Dreaming Life of Leonora de la Cruz, Collage Novel by Agnieszka
            Taborska and Selena Kimball;

            English Edition, MidMarch Press, New York, NY. 2007
            French Edition, Édition Interférences, Paris, France. 2007
2004   Polish Edition, slowo/obraz teryrtoria. Gdansk. 2004

PUBLISHED WORKS
2010   Rojo Magazine, (Contemporary Arts Magazine, Barcelona), February 2010
2009   “The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks”, Saint Anne’s Review, A Journal of
             Contemporary Arts and Letters, Fall 2009
          "The Memory Archive: Filmic Collaborations in Art and Anthropology",
             Alyssa Grossman and Selena Kimball, Reconstruction, Studies in
             Contemporary Culture (online peer review journal) Issue 9.1, 2009
         Fate in Review, Spring 2009
         “Monument”, Visionary Drawings, part of a project by Matt Bua at Kidspace
           @MassMoca

SCREENINGS
Into the Field, Director of Animation, in collaboration with Alyssa Grossman,
screened at the following festivals:
2008   CRONOGRAF International Documentary Film Festival, Republic of
             Moldova
2007   New Directions Film Festival, Manchester, UK

          Honorable Mention, Black Maria Film & Video Festival, US
          Torun Film Festival, Torun, Poland
          Astra Int’l Film Festival, Sibiu, Romania
2006   Int’l Women’s Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
          Moscow Int’l Film Festival, Moscow, Russia
          Iowa City Int’l Documentary Festival, Iowa City, IA
2005   We're Too Loud, Director, Film and Television Workshops, Rockport, ME
          Falling Film, Director, Hunter College Open Studios, New York, NY

ARTICLES & REVIEWS
- Evanczuk, JK. "Selena Kimball’s ‘The New World’ Invokes an Old World", Lit Drift: Storytelling in the 21rst Century, 14 May, 2009.
- Powers, Devin. "Selena Kimball", Third Ward, Summer 2009: Volume #4
- Kucharski, Anne-Marie. "La Vie Songeuse de la Leonora de la Cruz",
     ArtsLivres.com, January 12, 2008.
- Sulser, Elenore. "Poetic Hagiography", The Times Saturday Cultural Section
     (Paris), Dec 8 2007
- Benech, Sophie. "La Vie Songeuse de la Leonora de la Cruz", Radio France on
     the Web, franceculture.com, December 14 2007
- Kawalerowicz, Konga. "Who Is Leonora de la Cruz?" Zwierciadlo (Warsaw),
     2005: 5
- Valentine,Valerie. "Your Heart is no Match for my Love", Pulse of the Twin Cities,
     May 2004
- Baranowska, Malgorzata. "The Surreal Life of Leonora de la Cruz", Gazeta
     Wyborcza (Warsaw), February 24, 2004
- Mikolejko, Zbigniew. "The Martyr of Dreams and Hope", Nowe Ksiazki (Warsaw),
     2004
- Staniszewski, Jacek. "The Life of the Saint, Reality Guillotined", Exklusiv
    (Warsaw), 2004
- Faust, Lily. "Selena Kimball & Alyssa Grossman", M/ The New York Art World,
    May 2001
- Nicolau, Irina . "From the Neolithic to Coca Cola", 22, Edited by the Group for
    Social Dialogue, Bucharest, October 2000

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2009   Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
          Emerging Educator Fellowship, Institute for Integrative Teaching
          Rema Hort Mann Foundation Nominee
2008   Presidential Travel Award, Hunter College, CUNY
2007   Carolyn David Horowitz Award, Hunter College, CUNY
2006   Zankel Award, Hunter College, CUNY
          Dedalus Foundation Grant Nominee for painting
          Chashama Foundation Residency
2002   Maine Arts Commission Award
1995   Sylvia Leslie Young scholarship award for excellence in sculpture, Rhode
             Island School of Design

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009-present Westchester Community College, Assistant Adjunct Professor of
             Art, Valhallah, NY
2007-present Hunter College, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Art, New York, NY
2006-present George Mason University, NYC Arts Coordinator, Fairfax, VA
2009   Parsons, The New School, Visiting Artist, New York, NY

CONFERENCES
2009   ThinkTank4, “Cross Disciplinary Creativity,” Lamar Dodd School of Art,
             University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, June 5-10
2008   ThinkTank3, Nominated Participant in forum for the Teaching of Higher
             Education, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL June 6-11
          "The Memory Archive" Online Project Document in collaboration with
             Alyssa Grossman, Invented
          Archives and Historical Creativity, Visual and Critical Studies Graduate
             Symposium, Art Institute of Chicago, April 30-May 4

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