M A L L O R Y R Y A N K I M M E L
Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION
M.F.A. Fine Arts, Fine Arts Department, California College of the Arts
B.A. Studio Art, Department of Art and Design, Susquehanna University
B.S. Ecology, Biology Department, Susquehanna University
EXHIBITIONS
2025 (solo exhibition) Cultural Center Semberija, Gumno: The Gathering Place, Bijeljina, Republic of Srpska (RS), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H)
2024-2026 (group exhibition) Inaugural Gallery at The U.S. State Department, Diversity in Art, Washington, D.C., USA
2024 (group exhibition) The Peale, Baltimore’s Community Museum, Off the Web, Baltimore, MD, USA
2024 (group exhibition) Umbrella Art Fair, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, D.C., USA
2024 (group exhibition) Hamiltonian Artists, Take Over, Washington, D.C., USA
2024 (group exhibition) Cocohunday Gallery, Phone Keys Wallet, Tampa, FL, USA
2024 (group exhibition) Brooklyn Gallery, Site: Visions of Nature, New York City, NY, USA
2024 (solo show) Clarvit Courtyard at The University of Maryland, Hands-Free Spoon Screening, College Park, MD
2023 (group exhibition) Sandy Spring Museum, Queering Nature, Sandy Spring, MD, USA
2023 (group exhibition) Touchstone Gallery, People and the Planet, Washington, D.C., USA
2023 (group exhibition) Your Mood Gallery, Morphologies, San Francisco, CA, USA
2023 (group exhibition) The Mansion at Strathmore, Play, Rockville, MD
2023 (group exhibition) Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Target Gallery, March150, Alexandria, VA
2022 (group exhibition) Falls Church Arts Gallery, Bits and Pieces, Falls Church, VA
2022 (group exhibition) Sandy Spring Museum, Space in Place, Sandy Spring, MD
2020 (group exhibition) Terrain and CNL Projects, ART-IN-PLACE, Chicago, IL
2020 (COVID-19 online exhibition) California College of the Arts, Holding Space, San Francisco, CA
2020 (two-person show) Texas Tech University, Reflections on Our Constructed Niche, Lubbock, TX *Canceled due to covid-19
2020 (solo exhibition) Social Studies Residency, Flagpole Project, Woodland, CA
2019 (group exhibition) Embark Gallery, Extra Ordinary, San Francisco, CA
2019 (group exhibition) CCA Hubbell Street Galleries, Alma Mater: Methods, San Francisco, CA
2019 (group exhibition) Minnesota Street Projects, Commencement Exhibition 2019, San Francisco, CA
2019 (group exhibition) Root Division, MFA Now 2019, San Francisco, CA
2019 (group exhibition) Minnesota Street Project, 2019 MFA CCA Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2018 (group exhibition) California College of the Arts Graduate Center Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2018 (solo exhibition) PLAySPACE Gallery, Unstretched and Untucked, San Francisco, CA
2017 (group exhibition) PLAySPACE Gallery, Useless Initiatives, San Francisco, CA
2017 (group exhibition) California College of the Arts Graduate Center Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2017 (group exhibition) ArtSpan’s Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2017 (group exhibition) Hubbell Street Galleries, New Look Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2017 (collaborative exhibition) Lore Degenstein Gallery, Polychrome, Selinsgrove, PA
2016 (solo exhibition) The Kind Café, Work, Selinsgrove, PA
2016 (group exhibition) Susquehanna Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Selinsgrove, PA
ARTIST RESIDENCY & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Digital Artist in Residence Program, The Nicholson Project, Washington, D.C.
2024 Resident Artist, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, D.C.
2023 Jeanie Lea Knight Fellowship, Studio Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2023 Artist in Residence Finalist, MOCA Arlington, Arlington VA
2022 Social Justice Fellowship Finalist, VisArts, Rockville, MD
2020 Artist in Residence, Social Studies Residency, Sacramento, CA, USA
2017 Outreach Artist, National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) funded DBO-NCIS Interdisciplinary Research Cruise aboard USCGC HEALY (1702); Arctic Ocean, USA
AWARDS
2023 Nominee for 2024 Morton A. Bender Teaching Award, Washington, DC
2023 Finalist for the 2023 Artist in Residency, MOCA Arlington, VA
2019 MFA Now 2019 Creative Stipend, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2017 Fine Arts Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016 Joel and Trudy Cunningham Prize, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2024 I do not dream of labor, Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, MD
2021 Black X Film Festival 2021, Live Screening at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. *canceled*
2021 Black X Film Festival 2021, Live Screening at The ARC, Washington D.C. *canceled*
2021 Black X Film Festival 2021, International, three-day digital screening, Online digital programming
2020 Black X Film Festival 2020, Live Screening at True Respite Brewing Company, Derwood, MD
2020 Black X Film Festival 2020, International, three-day virtual screening, Online digital programming
2019 Non-View of the Lake from Underground, Torreya Cummings, ASG, Oakland, CA
2019 Between Beauty and Horror, Leila Weefur, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 VOC 6 Holding Breath, Group exhibition, Aggregate Space Gallery (ASG), Oakland, CA
PUBLICATIONS
Printed Publications
2024 The Composition of Wendel Patrick, BmoreArt Magazine, Online, Baltimore, MD, USA
2024 This or That: A Collection of Artwork Generated By a Human and ChatGPT AI with the Same Namesake, Do Less Press, Print and Online, Washington D.C., USA
2023 America: Land of Civil War, George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, Online, Washington D.C., USA
2023 How to Do Less, Do Less Press, Printed and Online, Washington D.C., USA
2023 Gathering: Together, as Ourselves, as One, Dirt, Online, Washington D.C., USA
2023 Blacksmith, The Wellness Zine Issue 1: Growth, Online, CA, USA
2022 Collectivism, e-flux Reader, Online, New York City, NY, USA
2021 Drunken Moments, Poet’s Choice, Online and Print. Missoula, MT, USA
2019 Defixus Anima:The Ecology of Aesthetic Relations and Companionship, California College of the Arts permanent collection, Print. San Francisco, CA, USA
Featured Publications
2023 Art Seen Magazine, Issue 7 Spring 2023, The Curator’s Salon, Online and Print. London, UK
2019 MFA Now 2019 Catalog, Root Division, Print. San Francisco, CA, USA
2019 2019 CCA MFA Thesis Catalog, California College of the Arts, Online and Print. San Francisco, CA, USA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Collegiate Teaching
S2025 Adjunct Professor, ARTS 215: The Studio Experience: Sculpture, American University, Washington D.C.
S2025 Adjunct Professor, AVT 496: Design to Free Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
S2025 Adjunct Professor, INTS 346: Art as Social Action, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
S2025 Adjunct Professor, ART 1510: Two-Dimensional Design, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD
F2024 Adjunct Professor, AVT 496: Design to Free Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
F2024 Adjunct Professor, AVT 202: Sophomore Core, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
F2024 Adjunct Professor, AVT 262: Sculpture 1, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
F2024 Adjunct Professor, ART 102: Three-Dimensional Design *online, synchronous*, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD
S2024 Lecturer in Studio Arts, CFN 1091: Form and Materials, The Corcoran School of Art at George Washington University, Washington D.C.
S2024 Adjunct Professor, AVT 262: Sculpture 1, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
F2023 Adjunct Professor, ART 210: Intermediate Drawing 210, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
F2023 Adjunct Professor, ARTD 104: Art Appreciation, Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, MD
F2023 Adjunct Professor, ART 1010: Intro to the Arts (college and dual enrolled student population), Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD
F2023 Adjunct Professor, AVT 104: 2D Design & Color, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
F2023 Adjunct Professor, AVT 104: 2D Design & Color, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
SU2023 Adjunct Professor, ART 1010: Intro to the Arts *online, synchronous*, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD
S2023 Lecturer in Studio Arts, CFN 1091: Form and Materials, The Corcoran School of Art at George Washington University, Washington D.C.
S2018 Graduate Teaching Assistant, CORES 108: 3D: Hand Production; CCA, Oakland, CA
F2018 Graduate Teaching Assistant, CORES 108: 3D: Shifting 2+3 Dimensions; CCA, Oakland, CA
Other Teaching Experience
2021-23 Art and Engineering Teacher, Baltimore County Public Schools, Dundalk High School, Baltimore, MD
2021 Instructor, Fundamentals of Woodworking for Women, Non-Binary and Queer
Individuals; The Woodworker’s Club, Rockville, MD
2020-21 Instructor, Resin Art 101; The Woodworker’s Club, Rockville, MD
2020-21 Instructor, Fundamentals of Woodworking; The Woodworker’s Club, Rockville, MD
2018 Art Specialist, Sandy Spring Friend School Camp, Sandy Spring, MD
2016 Student Teacher, Printmaking; Susquehanna University Art Department, Selinsgrove, PA
2008-2011 Volunteer Event Educator, Locust Grove Nature Center (LGNC), Bethesda, MD
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE AND ARTS MANAGEMENT
2022-2024 Art Collection Manager, Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
2022 Lead Shop Technician, Workshop of Our Own, Baltimore, MD
2022 Exhibit Intern, Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD
2020-2021 Education Director and Event Manager, The Woodworker’s Club, Rockville, MD
2020-2021 Curator and Chief of Art Relations, Black X Collective, Black X Film Festival, (Virtual) Oakland, CA
2020 Studio Manager, Something Earthy Ceramic Studio, Damascus, MD
2020 Event Coordinator, True Respite Brewing Company, Derwood, MD
2019 Curatorial Fellowship, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 Gallery Assistant, Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2019 Studio Assistant, Heather Day LLC, San Francisco, CA
2018 Exhibition Preparator, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2015-2017 Gallery Assistant, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, PA
COMMITTEE & PANEL APPOINTMENTS
August 2024 Panelist for the CAH Artist in Residence, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH), Washington, D.C.
July 2024 Pathways to Greater Inclusion, The Corcoran School of Art and Design at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
December 2023-May 2024 Juror, 2024 Tephra ICA Arts Festival, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, Reston, VA
August 2023 Panelist for the CAH Artist in Residence, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH), Washington, D.C.
March 2019 Academic Review Panelist, Junior Panelist Review; CCA, Oakland, CA
March 2018 Academic Review Panelist, First-Year Panelist; CCA, Oakland, CA
CERTIFICATIONS
Biodanza Facilitator Training, Biodanza School-USA, Ashton, MD
2024-Expected 2026
Aromatherapy Certification: Washington Institute of Natural Medicine, Washington, D.C.
Fall 2024
Reiki Master Teacher, Reiki and the Usui System of Natural Healing, Baltimore, MD
Summer 2024
Reiki 2 Degree: Reiki Practitioner, Reiki and the Usui System of Natural Healing, Columbia, MD
Spring 2021
Reiki 1 Degree: Reiki Practitioner, Reiki and the Usui System of Natural Healing, Columbia, MD
Spring 2021
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Aggregate Space Gallery
ArtSpan
Baltimore Museum of Art
Black X Collective
BlackRock Center of the Arts
California College of the Arts
The College Art Association
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Jane Goodall Institute
The Kiln Club
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Sculptors Society
The Phillips Collection
Sandy Spring Museum
Susquehanna University
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Washington Sculptors Group
The Woodworker’s Club
Workshop of Our Own