Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo and Small Group Exhibitions
2025
Upcoming: Work at McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, July 2025
2024
Connected Currents, Orléans Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Currents, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC, Canada
2023
Connected Currents, Art Gallery of St Albert, St. Albert, AB, Canada
2022
A memory of ice, Manifest Gallery, Drawing room, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
flux, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2021
An Exercise in Listening, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC, Canada. (curated 4-person exhibition organized by Meghan Hunter-Gauthier; work shown with Ruth Cuthand, Annie Dunning, and Genevieve Robertson)
2020
flux, Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, BC, Canada
Trace elements, Martha St Studio, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (essay, artist talk)
2018
Memory Landscape, The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie, AB, Canada. (4-person exhibition; work shown with Bettina Matzkuhn in Galleries 1 and 2, concurrent with Monique Martin and Jeroen Witvliet showing in Galleries 3 and 4)
The farthest shore, Robert F. Agrella Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, United States. (featured artist in this 6-person show, curated by Hannah Skoonberg. Visiting artist on campus the week of the reception in February 2018. Exhibition review in The Oak Leaf, March 1, 2018)
2017
divining, The Gallery at CASA, Lethbridge, AB, Canada. (review in the Lethbridge Herald, March 4, 2017)
embodied, McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton, AB, Canada. (review in Galleries West, Jan 14, 2017)
2016
divining, Rowe Gallery, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, United States
divining, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States. Thesis exhibition (Essay and catalogue)
2015
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Apart together, part of Waterpieces International Video and Contemporary Art Festival, screening
July 24, Noass Art Center Riga, Latvia. Done in collaboration with Addis Video Art Festival (Video work was made in collaboration with artists Lucio Gorzalczany (Argentina), & Claudia Roselli (Italy))
Gathering at the water’s edge: Visiting artists of St. Michael’s Printshop (currated by Emily Critch as part of the 50th Aniversary celebrations at St Michaels Printshop), Tina Dolter Gallery Corner Brook, NL, Canada.
Artist Proof, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada (Curated by Andrew Wujkowski)
2024 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States. (Juror: Yuji Hiratsuka)
2022
Beyond the Norm 2022, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA. (Jurors: Carmon Colangelo, Ralph J. Nagel Dean, and E. Desmond Lee)
Apart together, 4th Edition, Addis Video Art Festival (AVAF), screening from Dec 26–Jan 1, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Video work was made in collaboration with artists Lucio Gorzalczany (Argentina), & Claudia Roselli (Italy))
2021
Bituminous Partings: A Print Exchange, December 14, 2021 – January 7, 2022, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (Organizer: Alex R.M. Thompson)
Artists in the Fallow, Brighton Block, Edmonton, AB, Canada (Invitational Exhibition, organized by Michael Cor)
Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Questions (digital projection, and some physical works), About Light Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada (Juror: Marilene Oliver)
Re-Emergence! Explorations in Photography and Printmaking, Remarque Print Workshop & Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA (Juried exhibition)
Megalo’s Intaglio Online Exhibition, Megalo Print Studio, Kingston ACT Australia. (Juried exhibition)
2020
2020 MAPC Members’ Juried Exhibition, CVA Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA. (Juror: Imin Yeh)
The 2nd TKO International Miniprint, (Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka), Tokyo Metropolitan Theater, Tokyo, Art Zone Kaguraoka, Kyoto, and Gallery Irohani, Osaka. (Jurors: Kenji Ishikawa, Michael W.Schneider, Yuko Sasai, Reiichi Noguchi)
2019
4th International Miniature Print Exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center, 250 West 40 St, New York, NY, United States. (Juror: Sarah Kirk Hanley)
The 5th Bangkok Triennial International Print and Drawing Competition, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Thailand. (Juried exhibition, catalogue)
37th Bradley International, Heuser Art Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, USA. (Juror: Janet Ballweg)
2018
2018 Okanagan Print Triennial, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC, Canada (Juried exhibition)
Intersecting Boundaries, Festival dell’ Arte in 2018 , Parku Bukowiec, Mysłakowice, Poland. (Curated by Kasia Koziarz)
9th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Douro Museum, Alijó, Portugal. (Invitational exhibition, by Nuno Canelas, catalogue)
2nd International Print Biennial Łódz 2018, Sułkowskiego, Łódz, Poland. (Juried exhibition, catalogue)
2017
25th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Art Galleries, Kenosha, WI, United States. (Juror: David Jones)
Tokyo International Mini Print Triennale in Sapporo (Triennale 2015 Touring Exhibition), Planis Hall, JR Sapporo Tower, Sapporo, Japan
2017 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States. (Juror: Ann Prentice Wagner)
The Contemporary Print 2017, PrintAustin, at O2 Flatbed Press, Austin, TX, United States. (Juror: Susan Tallman)
2016
International Print Triennial Krakow–Falun 2016, Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden. (Jury process through SMTG in Krakow)
10th Masterpieces, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, United States. (Juried exhibition, catalogue)
8th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Douro Museum, Alijó, Portugal. (Curated by Nuno Canelas, catalogue)
First International Print Biennial Łódź 2016, Sułkowskiego, Łódź, Poland. (Juried exhibition)
2016 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States. (Juror: Dennis Michael Jon)
2015
1st International Miniature Print Exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center, 250 West 40 St, New York, United States. (Juror: Sarah Suzuki)
Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition 2015, Chambers 241 Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand. (Juried exhibition)
Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial 2015, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan. (Jurors: Yuji Kobayashi, Kuniko Satake, Hiroko Furuya, Kunio Motoe, and Tatsumasa Watanabe)
5th Guanlan International Print Biennial, Guanlan Print Art Museum, Guanlan, China. Guanlan Print Art Museum, Guanlan, China. (Jurors: Kang Jianfei, Liu Libin, catalogue)
28th National McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese Grand Gallery, Lake Charles, LA, United States. (Juror: William Pittman Andrews, catalogue)
2014
2nd International Print Exhibition, New Grounds Print Workshop & Gallery, Albuquerque, NM , United States. (Juried exhibition)
ROC 2014, International Biennial Print Exhibit, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung City, Taiwan. (Juried exhibition, catalogue)
7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro 2014, (Invitational exhibition, catalogue), Douro Museum, Alijo, Portugal
New Prints 2014: A selection of contemporary prints from International Print Center New York, Christie’s, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, United States. (Jurors: Rosaire Appel, Miranda Leighfield, SusanLorence, Fred Mershimer, Madeline Stratton, and Kit White)
New Prints 2014 / Summer, International Print Center, New York, NY, United States. (Jurors: Rosaire Appel, Miranda Leighfield, Susan Lorence, Fred Mershimer, Madeline Stratton, and Kit White)
Education
2016
Master of Fine Art, in Studio Art (Printmaking), University of Tennessee, United States
2011
Bachelor of Design (with distinction), University of Alberta, Canada
Selected Awards, Grants & Scholarships
2024
The Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize
2023
QSPA Americas Foundation Recipient (2022), distributed through Universal Limited Art Editions, to North American Artists working within Printmaking in new and innovative ways
2022
Cash Award from Normal Editions, Beyond the Norm 2022 International Juried Print Exhibition, Normal Editions Workshop, Illinois State University, USA, for ‘Bow Glacier Lake, 1902’
2021
Individual Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, in support of installation work currents
2019
Individual Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, in support of upcoming installation work flux in July 2020
10th Annual Manifest Prize, one of ten finalist awards, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA,
for the work ‘flux’
2018
Prix de Print no. 29, Art in Print, Chicago, United States.
2015
2015–2016 Thomas Fellowship Recipient, University of Tennessee
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award, University of Tennessee
Terry Burnette Memorial Residency Award, University of Tennessee
2014
Alberta Arts Graduate Scholarship, awarded through Alberta Scholarships Programs
Chancellor’s Fund Grant, School of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States.
2013
The Boston Printmakers 2013 North American Print Biennial, Materials Award: Gamblin Artists Colors, for ‘In the Flesh’
Residencies
2021
Together Apart #FUTURE, (digital residency), hosted online by Proyecto´ace Artist-in-Residence
International Program, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (June 2021)
2015
Summer Artist-in-Residence, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna (July 19 – August 2)
2014
Visiting Artist Residency at St. Michaels Print Shop, Newfoundland (May 7 – June 8)
2011
Emerging Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program 2011 SNAP Studio (June – October)
Recent Reviews + Publications
Review: St Albert Gazette, for ‘Connected Currents’ at Art Gallery of St Albert, St Albert, AB, March 26, 2023, written by Anna Borowiecki: https://www.stalbertgazette.com/local-entertainment/agsa-exhibition-explores-flow-of-albertas-geological-history-6718119
Essay, The Mid America Print Council Journal, Vol 32/33: Tipping Point, April 2021 (https://midamericaprintcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/MAPCJournal2021.pdf)
“Beyond the blue marble: the ecstatic landscapes of Kelsey Stephenson’s flux,” Exhibition catalogue essay by Stephanie Bailey and Dan Harvey, July 2020 (https://issuu.com/vernonpublicartgallery4/docs/kelsey_stephenson_cat_issuu)
“Wading in the Water: The work of Kelsey Stephenson,” Essay on exhibition at Martha Street Studio, February 2020, written by Seema Goel and Stephanie C. Kane (http://www.printmakers.mb.ca/gallery/discourse/)
“’divining’ by Kelsey Stephenson” Essay in Art in Print, May–June 2018, Volume 8, Number 1, written by Dr Angela Griffith (https://artinprint.org/prix/no-29-divining-by-kelsey-stephenson/)
Review: Galleries West Digital, for ‘embodied’ at McMullen Gallery, January 13, 2017, written by Agnieszka Matejko. (http://www.gallerieswest.ca/art-reviews/exhibitions/print-installation-evokes-alberta-s-landscape/)
Selected Collections
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, AB, Canada (2015, 2024)
El Minia University Gallery Archives, El Minia, Cairo, Egypt (2014)
Ewing Gallery, Print Archive, “Random / on purpose portfolio,” United States (2015)
Heritage Art Series, a collaboration between the University of Alberta, the Royal Alberta Museum, and Alberta Archaeological Survey (2015) (Article)
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2014)
St. Michaels Printshop, Print Archive, St Johns, NL, Canada (2014)
Tama Art University Museum, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan (2015)
U245 Gallery at the College for Creative Studies, Print Archive, “First year Framework portfolio,” Detroit, United States (2014)
University of Alberta Museums and Collections, Print Study Center, Edmonton, AB, Canada (2011)
Works held in private collections in Canada, the United States, and Japan.