B. 1980
Education
August 2007 – May 2010
Master in Fine Arts, Transmedia, Fine Art Photography,Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
November 2004 - December 2004
TEFL, Next Level Language Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
August 1998 - May 2003
Bachelor of Science, Major in Visual Communication, Fine Art PhotographyTowson University,Towson, Maryland
Fellowships/ Awards
January 2019 Directors Award, Self-Portrait - Juror Aline Smithson, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
December 2018 L.A. Photo Curator's Self-Portrait, Curated: Laurie Freitag, Third Place
October 2018 Bird in Flight, Panasonic Readers’ Choice Shortlist, Photo Kyiv Fair
October 2017 Project Grant (with Small Talk Collective) Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC), Portland, Oregon
August 2016 Top 175,Critical Mass, Photolucida, Portland, Oregon
October 2009 Top 175, Critical Mass, Photolucida, Portland, Oregon
June 2009 Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Artist Fellowship, Ithaca, New York
September 2007 Syracuse Teaching Fellowship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Selected Exhibitions
January 2019 Self-Portrait Juror: Aline Smithson, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
December 2018 L.A. Photo Curator's Self-Portrait, Curated: Laurie Freitag, Third Place
December 2018 Float On,Portland Oregon
October 2018 2018 National Photography Fellowship Competition - Developed Work,Midwest Center for Photography, Witchita, Kansas
September 2018 Looking At You: Intimate Portraiture, Juried By Jess T. Dugan, Photo-Emphasis
August 2018 Heartbreak City, Smalltalk Collective, Redux, Portland, Oregon
May 2018 Conversations, Smalltalk Collective, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon
April 2018 we’re always touching by underground wires, Smalltalk Collective, Pushdot Studio, Portland, Oregon
August 2016 "MENTORS" Group Show, North Bank Gallery, Vancouver, Washington
May 2013 Short Stories, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
July 2012 We Are All A Part, North Bank Gallery, Vancouver, Washington
May 2010 MMX MFA, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, New York, New York
April 2010 MMX MFA, Syracuse University Galleries, Syracuse, New York
March 2010 Blum, Landberg, Pennington MFA Show, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, New York
January 2010 Emerging Artist’s Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art,New York, New York
January 2010 CONVERGE, School of Photographic Arts and Sciences Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
January 2010 The Photographic Bush, TransMedia Photo Annual, Light Work,Syracuse, New York
October 2009 Artist At Work, Light Work,Syracuse, New York
June 2009 Made In NY 2009, Schweinfurth Art Center,Auburn, New York
February 2009 Matrilineage Show, Spark Gallery,Syracuse, New York
December 2008 Transmedia Annual, LightWork,Syracuse, New York
May 2007 Mississippi May, North Mississippi Warehouse ,Portland, Oregon
June 2006 Breathing Free Air, Rake Gallery,Portland, Oregon
Lectures and Interviews
November 2018 Manufacturing Memory, Photography Brown Bag Talk, Portland Art Museum,Portland, Oregon
July 2017 Panel Discussion with Small Talk Collective,Photography Brown Bag Talk, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
June 2006 Art Focus: Julie Bernard, Radiozine, KBOO, Portland, Oregon
Curating Experience
July 2017 Issue No.13, Ain’t Bad Magazine, Smalltalk Collective
September 2016 Portraiture: Photography Now, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
August 2015 Portraiture: Pictures in Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
January 2014 New Color Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
September 2009 Luminous Construction - The Works of Howard Bond, Special Collections Research Center,Bird Library, Syracuse University
Print / Online Features
September 2018/ Emerging Photographer Fall 2018, Vol. 10, No. 2
https://www.pdnonline.com/emerging-photographer/
https://issuu.com/eephotogroup/docs/emergingphotographer201810
September 2018/Musee Magazine
http://museemagazine.com/culture/2018/8/15/women-crush-wednesday-kelli-pennington
June 2018/ Book Feature: Small Talk Collective, Issue No. 111, Fraction Magazine
http://www.fractionmagazine.com/issue-111/
May 2018/ What We've Read (Small Talk Collective), Ain't Bad Magazine
https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2018/05/25/what-weve-read-may-edition/
September 2017/ Fraction Issue : 102
http://www.fractionmagazine.com/small-talk-collective/
August 2017/ Ain’t Bad Magazine
https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2017/08/16/small-talk-collective/
July 2017/ Academy of Art University Lens Blog
http://www.aaulens.com/blog/2017/7/21/panel-discussion-small-talk-collective
August 2014 /One Place or Another,Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
https://oranbegpress.com/one-place-or-another
January 2014/ Stay Young Issue 4 - Cover photograph, Editions Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
December 2013/ Edible Pssst: Put a Bow on It , Edible Portland
https:// www.ediblecommunities.com/article/edible-pssst-put-bow-it
September 2013 / Portland, Freshly Tapped, Edible Portland
https://edibleportland.com/portland-freshly-tapped/
June 2013/ Show Me Pictures
http://showmepictures.co.uk/post/53780080407/c-kelli-pennington-intimacy-2008-website
April 2013/ In The New Frontier
http://inthenewfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48325226182/kelli-pennington-photography-portland
November 2012/ Global Yodel
http://globalyodel.com/yodel/city-escape/
November 2012/ Booooooom
http://www.booooooom.com/2012/11/15/photographer-kelli-pennington/
October 2012/ Quick Brown Fox
http://quickbrown-fox.tumblr.com/post/33222960719/kellipennington
October 2011/ Flak Photo
http://flakphoto.com/photo/kelli-pennington-late-morning-light
August 2010/ Humble Arts Foundation, Group Show No. 36
http://hafny.org/group-show-36/
February 2010/ Nymphoto - Conversations
http://nymphoto.blogspot.com/2010/02/conversation-with-kelli-pennington.html
December 2009/ Feature Shoot
http://www.featureshoot.com/2009/12/theme-friday-christmas-tree/
August 2009/ ARTmostfierce
http://artmostfierce.blogspot.com/2009/08/artmostfierces-photolucida-critical_124.html
July 2009/ ShotSpot
http://1mix.blogspot.com/2009/07/kelli-pennington.html
July 2009/ Booooooom - Photo!
http://www.booooooom.com/2009/07/02/kelli-pennington-photography/
June 2009/ Feature Shoot
http://www.featureshoot.com/2009/06/bird-photography/
May 2009/ Hey Hot Shot, Contender
http://www.heyhotshot.com/blog/2009/05/07/hey-hot-shot-contender-kelli-l-pennington/
February 2008/ PDX Window Project, Artocracy
https://artocracy.blogs.com/artocracy/2008/02/artocracy-in-pd.html
November 2007/ Views on America, Artocracy
https://artocracy.blogs.com/artocracy/2007/11/views-on-americ.html
May 2007/ May Exhbition: Effuse - Growth, Time, and Change, Artocracy
https://artocracy.blogs.com/artocracy/2007/05/may_exhbition_e.html
May 2007/ Mississippi May or May Not by Jeff Jahn
http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2007/05/index.html
March 2007/ Three New Artist, Artocracy
https://artocracy.blogs.com/artocracy/2007/03/artocracy_posts.html
June 2006/ Sold Out by Marjorie Skinner, Portland Mercury
https://www.portlandmercury.com/columns/sold-out/Content?oid=39810