KELLY POPOFF
kellypopoff@gmail.com
kellypopoff.org
Instagram: @popoffkelly
Born 1972, Akron, Ohio Lives and works in Greenfield, MA
EDUCATION
2001 MFA The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC - Painting
1995 BFA Miami University, Oxford, Ohio – Painting and Ceramics
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 American Snapshot, Melhop Gallery, South Lake Tahoe, NV
2022 Truth and Lies in America, Geissler Gallery at Stoneleigh-Burnham School, Greenfield, MA
2020 New Work by Kelly Popoff, Pulp Holyoke Gallery, Holyoke, MA
2020 At Home With Our Histories, Tabor Gallery, Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA
2019 At Home With Our Histories, June and John Alcott Gallery, The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, NC
2016 O Children, Herter Gallery, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2014 Rock on Doily, Augusta Savage Gallery, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2013 The Fiction of Science, Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Invisible, curated by Jill Kearney, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ (artists shown: Monica Banks, Willie Cole, Phebe Macrae Corcoran, Vasiliki Katsarou, sTo Len, Kaitlin Pomerantz, Kelly Popoff, Sandra Ramos, Gabrielle Senza, Pavel Urkiza, Kawita Vatanajyankur, Natalija Vujosevic)
2020 A Small Needful Fact, an exhibit of artists who work for social justice, curated by Natasha Becker and part of a series of online exhibitions at the Assembly Room, NYC, NY
2020 Take a Line for a Walk, on online exhibition curated by Musa Collective, Boston, MA
2019 Collage, SITE : BROOKLYN, curated by Rachel Wolff, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Anti-Nostalgia, The Carrack, curated by elin o’Hara slavick and Olivia Huntley, Durham, NC
2018 We Grow Accustomed to the Dark, Herter Gallery, curated by Omid Shekari, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2018 Red, White and Blue, Brookline Arts Center, curated by Camilo Alvarez of Samson Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Works on Paper – 2016, The Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts and Sciences, curated by Carter E. Foster, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art
2016 Open Call NNE (North-Northeast) 2016, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, curated by Richard Klein (director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Brattleboro, VT
2012 Amherst Biennial, Amherst, MA
2011 Drawing Resurfaced, Purdue University, Purdue University Gallery
2010 Third Coast National, curated by Trenton Doyle Hancock at KSpace Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
2010 Love or Something Like Love, Lexington Arts Council, Lexington, KY
2010 Withdrawn: Contemporary International Drawing Exhibition at The Drawing Room, Budapest, Hungary
2009 Drawing Discourse: an annual exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, group exhibition curated by Deborah Rockman at The University of North Carolina –Asheville’s Tucker Cooke Gallery, Asheville, NC
2008 Dialogues: A Series of Group Exhibitions, Open Forums and Panel Discussions (Painting Segment), group exhibition curated by Lain York at Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
GRANTS/ AWARDS /HONORS
2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Drawing
2019 Vermont Studio Center, Clowes Fund Fellowship and Residency
2018 Millay Colony for the Arts Residency
2017 Vermont Studio Center, The Artist’s Resource Trust Fellowship and Residency
2017 Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Artist Grant
2016 Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award
2016 Finalist Award, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Painting
2015 The Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant
2014 Short-listed for 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Thames and Hudson / Kurt Beers
2013 Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant
2012 Dave Bown Projects – 5th Semiannual Competition
2004 Individual Artist Fellowship, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH
2002 Emerging Artist Grant, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
ARTIST REGISTRIES
2017 – present, Peirogi Flat File Program, New York, NY
2010 – present, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
