Education

1977 – M.F.A. Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT (1975-1977)
• Teaching Assistantship, Basic Drawing, 1976-1977, with Robert Reed, Jr.

1974 – B.F.A. Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, (1971-1974)
• State Senatorial Scholarship, 1971-1974
• Mendelbaum Merit Scholarship, 1973-1974
• Teaching Assistantship, Intaglio Printmaking, 1973-1974, with Stephen R. Anaya

Awards

• 2000 Faculty Development Grant, Central Connecticut State University
• 1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship, Works on Paper
• 1994 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
• 1989 Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Individual Artist’s Grant, Works on Paper

Professional Experience

• 2022-2003, Registrar, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
• 2002-1988, Exhibition installer – The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
• 2001-1989 Adjunct Professor (Lecturer F), Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, Drawing I & II
• 1997-2000 -Exhibition Design Assistant, Harrison Jenkins Design, Hartford, CT
• 1996-1989-Exhibition installer, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
• 1990-1989-Adjunct Faculty, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, Drawing I / II, Color Workshop
• 1990-1989-Co-curator, Promenade Gallery, Bushnell Memorial Hall, Hartford, CT
• 1988-Assistant Professor- sabbatical replacement, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, Fall Semester (Drawing I and Life Drawing)
• 1984-Instructor, Farmington Valley Art Center, Farmington, CT (Life Drawing)
• 1982-1978 – Artist in Residence, Trinity College, Hartford, CT (Printmaking, Drawing, Design)
• 1982-Wooster Community Art Center, Danbury, CT (Intro. Painting)
• 1981-Draftsperson for Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Retrospective, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Draftsperson for Sol LeWitt, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
• 1979-1977- Yale Center for British Art, Rare Book Library, Cataloguing assistant, New Haven, CT

Related Professional Experience

Teen Art Program, Drawing Workshop, Wooster Community Art Center, Danbury, CT, 1996, 1997
Lecturer, Yale University, Graduate School of Architecture, New Haven, CT 1996
Connecticut Children’s Hospital Workshop Leader, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 1996
Lecturer, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, 1995
Lecturer, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1995
Selection Committee, Per Cent for the Arts, CT Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT 1992
Lecturer, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT 1992
Lecturer, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT 1990
Guest Curator, Drawing x 3, Aetna Gallery, Hartford, CT 1989
Visiting Artist, Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 1983
Visiting Artist, Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 1982
Lecturer, Printmaking, Wellesley College, MA, 1982
Young Artists’ Workshop, Silvermine Guild of Art, Silvermine, CT, 1981

Selected Individual Exhibitions

• 1997 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT Vanitas/Casinos (works on paper)
• 1995 Paesaggio Gallery, Canton, CT, Golgotha (Place of the Skull) (works on paper)
• 1995 Lukacs Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, Works On Paper
• 1992 Paesaggio Gallery, Hartford, CT, High Cross (works on paper)
• 1991 C&A Gallery, New York, NY, Works On Paper
• 1990 Aetna Gallery, Hartford, CT, Works On Paper
• 1990 New Space Gallery, Manchester, CT Works On Paper
• 1986 Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA, Drawings
• 1985 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, Dillon Stadium (works on paper)
• 1982 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, Fossilization (works on paper)
• 1978 Trinity College, Widener Gallery, Austin Arts Center, Hartford, CT, Drawings

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2026 Gallery at Still River Editions, Danbury, CT, The Fortune Cookie Project curated by Cathy Vanaria, https://stillrivereditions.com/
• 2022 Furnace Art on Paper Archive, Falls Village, CT, Rotating/Axis 
• 2022 Furnace Art on Paper archive, Falls Village, CT, Summer Selections
• 2014 Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT, The Eighth Annual Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Invitational Exhibition: Mary Kenealy and Richard Klein
• 2011 John Slade Ely House, Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, Extraordinary Facilities
• 2011 Mass MoCA, Prints and Drawings Gallery, North Adams, MA, and Cabinet Magazine: An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, A two-part exhibition in collaboration with Cabinet Magazine and Mass MoCA, Curated by Regine Basha
• 2008 The Nelson-Atki-ns Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, Print Lovers at 30: Celebrating Three Decades of Giving Honors the Nelson-Atkins Print Society’s 30th Anniversary
• 2007 Metaphor Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, Punch Bowl
• 2003 John Slade Ely House, Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, Referential Abstraction
• 2002-2004, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY, The Flat Files
• 2000 CCSU Samuel T. Chen Fine Arts Center, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition
• 2000 The William Benton Museum of Art, U. Conn, Storrs, CT, Millennium: New Gifts and Acquisition
• 1999 CCSU Samuel T. Chen Fine Arts Center, New Britain, CT, Journey to Abstraction
• 1999 Gallery 13, Danbury, CT, Recent Work by Mary Kenealy and Richard Klein
• 1998 Fairfield University, Walsh Gallery/Regina Quick Center, Fairfield, CT Faculty Exhibition
• 1997 Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Traces of Healing
• 1996 Samuel T. Chen Gallery, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, CCSU Faculty Exhibition
• 1995 Artspace Gallery, New Haven, CT, Gifts for the 21st Century
• 1995 Artspace, New Haven CT, “Open To The Public” Drawing Exhibition
• 1995 William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT, Investing in Dreams, Connecticut Commission on the Arts
• 1994 Sculpture Center, New York, NY, On Paper
• 1994 Paesaggio Gallery, Canton, CT, Gallery Artists
• 1994 Paesaggio Gallery, Canton, CT, Flowers
• 1993 Paesaggio Gallery, Hartford, CT Gallery Artists
• 1993 C&A Gallery, New York, NY, Drawings I
• 1992 Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT, The Colt 4: Ellen Carey, Mary Kenealy, Cary Smith, & Peter Waite
• 1991 Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, Connecticut Biennial II
• 1990 MATRIX #111, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Group Material: Aids Timeline
• 1990 Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford, CT, Contemporary Acquisitions
• 1990 Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, Adjunct Faculty Exhibtion
• 1990 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT, Works on paper
• 1989 Aetna Gallery, Hartford, CT, Bird House Invitational
• 1988 MS Gallery, Hartford, CT 3×3
• 1988 Charter Oak Temple Gallery, Hartford, CT, Mary Kenealy/ Peter Waite Recent Work
• 1987 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, Horizons
• 1987 Aetna Gallery, Hartford, CT, Pictures/ Mary Kenealy & Peter Waite
• 1986 Art &Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, The Peterdi Years
• 1985 Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT, Hartford Does Hartford
• 1982 Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, Pressed Image
• 1981 Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Squadron Press
• 1980 De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 32nd Boston Printmakers’ National Print Exhibition
• 1979 Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, Contemporary Print Invitational
• 1978 Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Faculty Exhibition
• 1977 Art &Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Thesis Exhibition
• 1977 National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C., 25th L.C. National Print Exhibition
• 1975 Art &Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, New Artists
• 1974 Silvermine Guild of Art, Silvermine, CT, Silvermine 8th National Print Exhibition
• 1974 Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Works on Paper
• 1972 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, Maryland Annual

Works in Public Collections

Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Connecticut Collection, Hartford, CT
https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/connecticut-office-of-the-arts/portfolio?public_piece_search=Mary+Kenealy

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/12290/intersection-badlands-south-dakota?ctx=6c027e00-b35e-4777-a81c-9ab3b591dcd7&idx=0
https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/5669/intersection-kansas-city-missouri?ctx=60a7410c-242f-42d4-a984-a86dde3a3d11&idx=0

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (Online Collection link pending)

The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
https://bentonart.uconn.edu/objects-1/info/4524?records=60&sort=0&objectName=Nine%20Light%20View,Parted%20and%20Fretted%20#6

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collection?query=Mary+Kenealy

Bibliography/Reviews (Individual and Group)

-Real Art Ways, Decade, Mary Kenealy: Dillon Stadium, p.6, 1985.
-Hartford Courant, An Exhibit of Parallel Sensibilities, Matt Damsker, p.64, Jl 19, 1987.
-Art New England, Regional Reviews, Chris Horton, p.22, Ju, 1987.
-Hartford Courant, Simple Shapes Take on New Meanings, Jude Schwendenwien, Aug, 1990.
-Hartford Courant, Atheneum Opens Display of Contemporary Art, Owen McNally, pp.D1,D3, Sept. 24, 1990.
-New York Times, Connecticut Biennial Displays Diversity, William Zimmer, p.22 CN, Apr 24, 1991.
-Wadsworth Atheneum, The Colt 4: Carey, Kenealy, Smith, & Waite, Patrick McCaughey, 1992.
-New York Times, “The Colt Four” of Hartford: From Guns to Brushes, William Zimmer, p.16 CN, Jl 12,1992.
-Hartford Advocate, “The Colt 4” at the Wadsworth, Susan Wadsworth, May 28, 1992.
-Connecticut Magazine, The Colt Four, Patricia Rosoff, pp.40-43, June, 1992.
-Hartford Courant, A year of distinction, diversity, vitality, Jude Schwendenwien, Dec 27, 1992.
-Hartford Courant, Floral Works by 9 artists at Paesaggio’s new locale, Jude Schwendenwien, Apr 10, 1994.
-Hartford Advocate, Standing at a Crossroads, Patricia Rosoff, Sept 21, 1995.
-Art New England, Investing in Dreams, Jude Schwendenwien, Ju/Jl, 1995.
-Hartford Advocate, Buried Treasures: Traces of Healing, Patricia Rosoff, Mar 20, 1997.
-Art New England, Real Art Ways: Four Solo Exhibitions, Michael Rush, Feb/Mar, 1998.
-Hartford Advocate, No Guts No Glory, Patricia Rosoff, 1999
-New Haven Advocate, Referential Abstraction, Frame of Reference, Frank Hoffman, Mar 6, 2003

-Cabinet Magazine, An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA 2011
hhtp://cabinetmagazine.org/events/Exchange with Sol LeWitt Catalogue.pdf

-Patricia Rosoff, Innocent Eye: A Passionate Look at Contemporary Art, Chapter 8 It’s a Dialogue, p.137, Tupelo Press, 2013 (ISBN-10: 193679716X)
https://www.tupelopress.org/product/innocent-eye-passionate-look-contemporary-art-patricia-rosoff/

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