Kelli Connell - Columbia College Chicago

Kelli Connell

Professor

kconnell@colum.edu

Biography

Kelli Connell's body of work entitled "Double Life" has been widely received and included in numerous national solo and group exhibitions. She has been awarded several grants and residencies, among them a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2012, 2016). Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Microsoft; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Columbus Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Contemporary; the Dallas Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Publications include "MP3: Midwest Photographers' Publication Project" co-published by Aperture and The Museum of Contemporary Photography; "Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography" by Phaidon; "PHOTOart; Photography in the 21st Century" by Aperture. A full length monograph "Kelli Connell: DOUBLE LIFE" was published by DECODE Books in 2011.

Degrees

B.F.A., Photography and Visual Art Studies University of North Texas 1997
M.F.A., Studio Art Texas Woman's University 2003