KIMMAH DENNIS
Lives and works in New York & Chicago, US. Born in Côte d'Ivoire, Yamoussoukro Click here for an unabbreviated print version.
EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master in Fine Arts
Rutgers University, Bachelors Fine Arts
SOLO and DUO EXHIBITONS
EXHIBITONS
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Manufacturers Village, “No Fear: Return of the Dope Art Chicks”
PhillyArt Collective, “ HERspace”
Index NYFA,” Index At Center “
Paul Robeson Gallery, “Disenfranchised Dissent: See Me Now”,
Trolley Barn Gallery, The Duo Show
ArtCity, Two people show, “Whispers of Existence,”
GROUP EXHIBITONS
Artist Making Books, American Academy in Rome
Color Club ”SAIC PTDW Alumni Exhibition”
BlackArtistNetwork “Materialized Visions l”
Evoke Chicago Gallery “Materialized Visions II”
33 E. Washington Gallery, “SAIC Grad Thesis Show”
New York Academy of Art, “AxA Art Prize finalist”
David Mooney Foundation, “Luminarts Visual Arts finalist show”
The University of Chicago, “The Experience: Chicago”
Manufacturers Village, “No Fear: Return of the Dope Art Chicks”
PhillyArt Collective, “ HERspace”
Index NYFA,” Index At Center”
Paul Robeson Gallery, “Disenfranchised Dissent: See Me Now”
Artworks, “Art All Night”
Awards / Fellowships / Residencies
American Academy of Rome Affiliated Rome Prize Fellow, Rome, Italy
Graduate Dean Professional Development Award
Ox-Bow Fellow finalist
AxA Art Prize finalist
uminarts Visual Arts finalist
School of the Art Institute of Chicago New Artist Society Full Scholarship
Jerry Gant estate
NYFA IAP Newark
Diversity Inc. Foundation Endowed Scholarship
Rutgers University Full Scholarship
Experience
Visiting Artist Coordinator, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Visiting Artist Coordinator, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Visual & Performing Arts Department Manager, The Salvation Army, Camden, NJ
Graphic Designer/Account Manager Assistant, Entourage Yearbooks, NJ
Photographer, Lifetouch Photography, New Jersey
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, NJPAC, photographer Quality Assurance Auditor, Doordash
Office Manager, Doordash
Lectures, Workshops, and Panels
2024
- 2023
Artist Talk, Cornell University, Rome, IT Panel, Material Memory: Art, Fashion, and Migration, American Acadcamy in Rome Artist Talk, Temple University, Rome, IT Workshop, Tollroy Barn Gallery, NY
Artist Talk, School of the Art Institute of chicago