Kelly Neibert

My work is based on the places that I have lived in and other well known spaces that I recall from memory. Some of the paintings are large and complex, depicting the interiors of my past and current apartments; some are smaller, more intimate vignettes of the banal, daily interactions I have with my partner and our cat.

Small exploratory drawings and collages become the basis for oil works on canvas. Comfort, intimacy and humor collide with color, pattern, and shape upon the picture plane. I merge wonky, awkward, and impossible perspectives with mundane, everyday still lives and occurrences resulting in paintings that are tenuously grounded in reality and also dreamlike.

2018
MFA in Painting and Drawing
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2016
Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting and Drawing
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2010
BA Studio Art
Messiah College, Grantham, PA

2008
New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York City, NY

2018
Living With the Non-Human
Gallery KIN, Chicago IL

Language of the Voiceless
Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL

GIFC Worldwide
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

SAIC MFA Show
School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL

Side-Eyed Jones (Peripherapals)
The Carl, Chicago, IL

Spring in Motion
Mooch Gallery, Chicago, IL

Home
Fulton Market, Chicago, IL

2017
Netflix and Chill
D&S Gallery, Chicago, IL

Blue Notes
Ace Hotel, Chicago, IL

2016
Painting at the End of the World
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Time Old Tradition
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2015
I Like My Dad
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Bad Painting
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Found in Transition
The Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA

Destination: ARTS! Winter Exhibition
Gallery 50, Waynesboro, PA

30th Positive Negative Exhibition
Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN

Quiet Water Park Juried Exhibition
Willow Gallery, Annapolis, MD

Paintings of Memory Solo Exhibition
Area 31, Frederick, MD

2014
Amalgam
Gallery 37 West, Waynesboro, PA

Destination: ARTS! Th...