KELLEY BRANNON
Brooklyn, New York
phone: 347.984.4514
email: kelleybrannonprojects@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2015 MFA, Goddard College: Creative Writing
2010 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design: Studio for Interrelated Media
EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES
2016:
Duane St Hotel, New York, New York: Formally Winged smoke drawing
Big Irv’s Big Ass Variety Show at Big Irv’s, Brooklyn, NY: stand up comedy set
Fire Relief Salon Show at Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: first four smoke drawings from new series, The Digital Age (2015)
Big Irv’s Big Ass Variety Show at Big Irv’s, Brooklyn, NY: jazz song performance
Empty Room: An Art Exhibition at Rabbithole, Brooklyn, NY: minimalist solo show featuring Empty Chair (jazz song video, 2016) and the first four smoke drawings from new series, The Digital Age (2015)
2015:
Hobo Gerz Holiday Party and Show at QED, Astoria, Queens: stand up comedy set
London House Project, Chicago, IL: Hook, Line, and Bait and Caught in an Industrial Fan smoke drawings
Uncle Irving’s Showcase at Big Irv’s, Brooklyn, NY: reading
The Rectory, studio space in Charlestown, New Hampshire: Six-week Artist Residency
The Bushwick Refugees mocku/documentary film project, collaboration with Brianna Paquette
Wardman Tower, D.C: Measurement, Expanding a Closed Space, and Formally Winged smoke drawings
Uncle Irving’s Showcase at Big Irv’s, Brooklyn, NY: “the play within the film scene” from Empty Spaces screenplay
2014:
Uncle Irving’s Showcase at Big Irv’s, Brooklyn, NY: reading
Loews Miami, Miami, FL: Elevation, Separation from Instinct, and Formally Winged smoke drawings
The War on Women mini-zine, Bushwick Open Studios: Everywhere, including Hot 97 and The Bodega Wine Bar
The Bodega Monthly, The Bodega Wine Bar, Brooklyn, NY: reading
Open Mic, Sidewalk Cafe, New York, NY: reading
New Voices Reading Series, La Casa Azul Bookstore, New York, NY: reading
2013:
Qingdao Tai Shan Condo, Qingdao, China: Formally Winged, Meiosis, Elevation, Vagina, and Separation from Instinct
The Bodega Monthly, The Bodega Wine Bar, Brooklyn, NY: reading
Sycamore Stories, Sycamore Bar, Brooklyn, NY: reading
2012:
48-Hour Film Festival, Market Arcade Theater, Buffalo, NY: In Sequence
InFringement Festival, Allen Street, Buffalo, NY: selected smoke drawings from second series, Unsatisfiable Hunger
Bushwick Open Studios, The Bodega Wine Bar, Brooklyn, NY: selected smoke drawings from first series, Carbon Footprint
The Bodega Monthly, The Bodega Wine Bar, Brooklyn, NY: reading
2011:
Solo Show: What Remains, Joe’s the Art of Coffee, New York, NY: collages from series Pieces and smoke drawings from Carbon Footprint
Flourish: Alumni Works on Paper (juried), Bakalar & Paine Galleries at MassArt: Formally Winged smoke drawing
The Bodega Monthly, The Bodega Wine Bar, Brooklyn, NY: reading
The Rootless: A Play About America: written&directed and casting and stage managing by me. Produced by Love Creek Productions and performed at The Producer’s Club, New York, NY
2010:
Land Escape, Godine Gallery at MassArt, Boston, MA: photo, video, installation, collaboration with Erica Russo and Hannah Rosenstein
MassArt Senior Show, Bakalar and Paine Galleries Boston, MA: Tree Stumps installation
All School Show/SIM Big Show, Pozen Center at Mass Art, Boston, MA: Bible Pages installation, collaboration with Erica Russo; Like the Old Days abstract documentary video
Neighborhoods: Hyde Square, Sparring Partners Window Gallery, Boston, MA: photo montages
Freshman Orientation Show, North 181 at Mass Art: Demetrius documentary/portrait video
2009:
All School Show/SIM Big Show, Pozen Center at Mass Art, Boston, MA: Good Riddance to Confessions performance, collaboration with Erica Russo and Amy Mills
Economic Collapse, Atomic Bean Cafe, Cambridge, MA: photo montages
Economic Collapse, Java Joe’s Coffee and Tea, Jamaica Plain, MA: photo montages
The Color of Challenge, Brant Gallery at Mass College of Art, Boston, MA: Stories of My Friends: Ron abstract documentary video
All School Show/SIM Big Show, Pozen Center at Mass Art, Boston, MA: Stories of My Friends: Ron, abstract documentary video
2008:
All School Show/SIM Big Show, Pozen Center, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA: Introspection abstract documentary video
Ghost Like Existence, Java Joe’s Coffee and Tea, Jamaica Plain, MA: alternative processed photographs
Neighborhoods, Boston Public Library West End Branch, Boston, MA: Lg Format Photo Portrait Series
2005:
Open Mic, Sacred Grounds Coffee House, San Francisco, CA: reading
2004:
Poetry Open Mic, North Beach Cafe, San Francisco, CA: reading
Open Mic, Sacred Grounds Coffee House, San Francisco, CA: reading
Open Mic, Rockin’ Java, San Francisco, CA: reading
2003:
Open Mic, Hotel Utah, San Francisco, CA: reading
COLLECTIONS:
Duane St Hotel, New York, New York: Formally Winged
London House Project, Chicago, IL: Hook, Line, and Bait and Caught in an Industrial Fan smoke drawings
Wardman Tower, Washington DC: Measurement, Expanding a Closed Space, and Formally Winged smoke drawings
Loews Miami, Miami, FL: Elevation, Separation from Instinct, and Formally Winged smoke drawings
Qingdao Tai Shan Condo’s Permanent Collection, Qingdao, China: Formally Winged, Meiosis, Elevation, Vagina, and Separation from Instinct
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
1/13-5/13 Sycamore Stories, storytelling series, Sycamore Bar, Brooklyn, NY: Founder, Organizer & Host
4/11-6/12 The Bodega Monthly, storytelling series, The Bodega Wine Bar, Brooklyn, NY: Founder, Organizer & Host
April 2012, 2013, 2014 The Bodega Monthly Anthology: Created; handled submissions, design & layout, and printing
January 2011 The Rootless: A Play About America, Performed at The Producer’s Club, NY, NY: Wrote &Directed; Casted & Managed
April 2009 The Missing Sock ‘zine, Boston, MA: Created; Design & Layout
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Urban Cowperson (collage), Cover for The Pitkin Review, 2014
Marble Machine Gun Hero Mythology: Abridged (poem) and Vagina (smoke drawing), The Bodega Monthly Anthology
if only everything was this simple (c-print) and Man and Bird (collage), The Pitkin Review, 2013
Omission (poem) and Man and Bird (collage), The Bodega Monthly Anthology, 2013
CARVINGS: Deteriorated (poem) with untitled smoke drawing, The Bodega Monthly Anthology, 2012
RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
DeLuna, JoAnn The Bodega Monthly Reading Celebrates 2 Year Anniversary with Anthology Release Bushwick Daily, April 2, 2013: Art&Culture
Whelan, Nora 5 Questions for Sycamore Stories’ Kelley Brannon Ditmas Park Corner, March 29, 2013: Art & Music, Events
Occupy the Highway (various online articles about my involvement in co-organizing the 230 mile march)
Flourish: Alumni Works on Paper Exhibition Catalog
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sept 2012 – Present Freelance Artist, Writer, and Filmmaker: Indiewalls
Sept 2011 – Present The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY: Volunteer Bartender&Usher
April 2016 Tribeca Film Festival: Industry Crew
February 2016 The B Group – Los Angeles Talent Group: Freelance Director
Jan – March 2016 Socially Relevant Film Festival NY: Production&Administration
Oct – Nov 2015 The Rectory, Charlestown, NH: Six-Week Artist in Residence
Nov 12 – 19, 2015 DOC NYC, New York, NY: Press Table
Aug – Sept 2015 The Joan Jerkovich Show, Telecommuting: Freelance Producer
Dec 2014, 2015 Ink & Block, Holiday Shops, New York, NY: Salesperson
1/2013 – 9/2014 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY: College Design Assistant
January – May 2013 Sycamore Stories, Sycamore Bar, Brooklyn, NY: Founder, Organizer, Host
September – Dec. 2012 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY: Art Department Intern
September 2012 Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources, Buffalo, NY: Workshop Instructor
June – August 2012 NHS of South Buffalo, Buffalo, NY: Video Production; scripting, shooting, and editing videos for documentary and promotional purpose
March 2011 – June 2012 The Bodega Monthly, The Bodega Wine Bar, Brooklyn, NY: Founder, Organizer and Host
Oct 31, 2010, 2011 Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, New York, NY: Marshall
September 2011 LES Business Project, New York, NY: Freelance Photographer
Aug – Sept. 2011 Peter Schneider Productions: The Breakup Notebook: The Lesbian Musical, New York, NY and Asbury Park, NJ: Assistant to the Director
Dec. 2010 – February ’11 Love Creek Productions, Long Island City, NY: Actor, Writer, Director
August ’09 – June 2010 Boston Green Building, Allston, MA: Intern, produced documentary film: The Medford Passive House Project
September ’09 – May ’10 Mass College of Art, Boston, MA: Work Study: Assistant to SIM Studio Manager
January – March ’10 Community Center for Art Partnership, a program within Mass Art dedicated to working with neighborhoods in close proximity to the college: Mentor and Gallery Advisor to high school students
RECENT AWARDS/HONORS (okay there hasn’t been anything recent -someone give me an honor so I have something for this section)
Grant from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Student Government Association for production of The Missing Sock ‘zine
Massachusetts College of Art and Design Scholarship
Chester College of New England Scholarship (2006-2007, before transferring to Mass Art)
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