Artist Information
KEVIN COOLEY
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
The School of Visual Arts, M.F.A. Photography , New York, NY, 2000
Lewis and Clark College, B.A. International Affairs Portland, OR, 1997
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
At Light’s Edge, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY, 2008
Night Shift, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY, 2007
Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL, 2005
The Swiss Institute (Entryway), New York, NY, 2003
White Columns Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2002
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The Grass is Greener on the Other Side..., Leo Fortuna Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2007
A House is not a Home, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, 2007
Location, Location, Location, Gallery 10G, New York, NY, 2006
Think Twice, TH Inside, Milan, Italy, 2006,
Looking at Los Angeles, ArcLight / Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
Drama, Romance, Loneliness, Narcissism... Massimo Audiello, New York, NY, 2005
Uneasy Places, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2004
Still-Life, Gallery 10G, New York, NY, 2004
Heads, Studio Aiello, Denver, CO, 2003
Trois Points, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, 2003
Tar Beach, Site Gallery, Sheffield, U.K., 2003
Artists' Choice, Eyebeam Gallery, New York, NY, 2003
Homework group show, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
De-Core-Instanz, Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts, New York, NY, 2001
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
“At Light’s Edge” Bright Magazine (The Nederlands) March, 2009
“Goings on about Town” The New Yorker September 29th, 2008
“Readings” Harper’s Magazine, December 2008
“On Top of the World” Culture & Travel, February/March, 2007
“Visioni Molto Cool(ey)” Marie Claire (Italy), February, 2007
“Looking at Los Angeles”, DAP, 2005
“The Ecstasy and The Agony” L A Weekly, June 3rd-9th, 2005
“An Illustrative Light” L A Times, June 13th, 2005
“Drama, Romance, Loneliness”, New York Art World, February 2005
Cover Image, Bomb Magazine, Summer 2004
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Swartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
AWARDS
Photo District News 30 Award, 2005
Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant, 2004
Rema Hort Mann Grant, 2003
David Ruttenberg Purchase Award, 2000
Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, 2000
Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship, 1999
RESIDENCIES
Caldera Art Residency “winter at blue lake”, 2010
Grand Canyon National Park South Rim AIR program, 2010
Klondike Institute of Art and Culture Residency, 2010
Herhusid Artist Residency, Siglufjordur, Iceland, 2008
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Artist in Residence,
New York, NY, 2006-2007
Cite Internationale des Arts Residency, Paris, France, 2003
ARTIST STATEMENT
AT LIGHT'S EDGE is a series of landscape imagery focusing on the precarious relationship humans maintain with the natural environment. Since the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the Western pursuit to conquer and control the natural seems increasingly successful. Yet, a pervasive sense of alienation has led artists, beginning with the Romantic movement, to seek out the sublime or divine in Nature. No amount of poetic idealization or industrial oppression however has changed the fact that Nature still rules our lives. In fact, industrialization serves to make Nature more dangerous, and yet, more enticing. In my photographs, the paradox plays out, portraying Nature as sublime, gorgeous and menacing.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
The School of Visual Arts, M.F.A. Photography , New York, NY, 2000
Lewis and Clark College, B.A. International Affairs Portland, OR, 1997
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
At Light’s Edge, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY, 2008
Night Shift, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY, 2007
Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL, 2005
The Swiss Institute (Entryway), New York, NY, 2003
White Columns Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2002
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The Grass is Greener on the Other Side..., Leo Fortuna Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2007
A House is not a Home, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, 2007
Location, Location, Location, Gallery 10G, New York, NY, 2006
Think Twice, TH Inside, Milan, Italy, 2006,
Looking at Los Angeles, ArcLight / Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
Drama, Romance, Loneliness, Narcissism... Massimo Audiello, New York, NY, 2005
Uneasy Places, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2004
Still-Life, Gallery 10G, New York, NY, 2004
Heads, Studio Aiello, Denver, CO, 2003
Trois Points, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, 2003
Tar Beach, Site Gallery, Sheffield, U.K., 2003
Artists' Choice, Eyebeam Gallery, New York, NY, 2003
Homework group show, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
De-Core-Instanz, Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts, New York, NY, 2001
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
“At Light’s Edge” Bright Magazine (The Nederlands) March, 2009
“Goings on about Town” The New Yorker September 29th, 2008
“Readings” Harper’s Magazine, December 2008
“On Top of the World” Culture & Travel, February/March, 2007
“Visioni Molto Cool(ey)” Marie Claire (Italy), February, 2007
“Looking at Los Angeles”, DAP, 2005
“The Ecstasy and The Agony” L A Weekly, June 3rd-9th, 2005
“An Illustrative Light” L A Times, June 13th, 2005
“Drama, Romance, Loneliness”, New York Art World, February 2005
Cover Image, Bomb Magazine, Summer 2004
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Swartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
AWARDS
Photo District News 30 Award, 2005
Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant, 2004
Rema Hort Mann Grant, 2003
David Ruttenberg Purchase Award, 2000
Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, 2000
Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship, 1999
RESIDENCIES
Caldera Art Residency “winter at blue lake”, 2010
Grand Canyon National Park South Rim AIR program, 2010
Klondike Institute of Art and Culture Residency, 2010
Herhusid Artist Residency, Siglufjordur, Iceland, 2008
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Artist in Residence,
New York, NY, 2006-2007
Cite Internationale des Arts Residency, Paris, France, 2003
ARTIST STATEMENT
AT LIGHT'S EDGE is a series of landscape imagery focusing on the precarious relationship humans maintain with the natural environment. Since the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the Western pursuit to conquer and control the natural seems increasingly successful. Yet, a pervasive sense of alienation has led artists, beginning with the Romantic movement, to seek out the sublime or divine in Nature. No amount of poetic idealization or industrial oppression however has changed the fact that Nature still rules our lives. In fact, industrialization serves to make Nature more dangerous, and yet, more enticing. In my photographs, the paradox plays out, portraying Nature as sublime, gorgeous and menacing.
