Kelly Sena
Born
Los Angeles, CA 1961
Education
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, M.F.A. 2002
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, B.F.A. 2000
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
For the Wild , FOTO forum, Santa Fe, NM (curated by Sage Paisner)
2012
For the Wild, The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois
For the Wild, LA><ART, Los Angeles, California (with catalogue)
2005
Leave, Take, Kill, One Twenty Gallery, Gent, Belgium
2004
Birds of North America, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Skototropism, Thesis Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2001
Canada Gobernardora, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Group Exhibitions
2017
The MYSYSYPYN, Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN (curated by Matthew Schum)
2016
We Gave it Best, Now the Rest is up to the Hope Chest, traveling exhibition; Pop up Gallery Penelope, Austrian Cultural Forum, Washington D.C., Eastside International, Los Angeles, IM Ersten, Vienna, Austria (curated by Johanna Braun)
2015
Masters of Photography (S)PACINGS, Kelly Sena & Michael Huey, MUSIZ Foundation, So ia, Bulgaria (curated by Vladiya Miharylova)
2013
No Bingo for Felons, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA (curated by Alix Lambert & Julian Hoeber)
2006
ECO LUX: Art in the Light of Ecology, Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA
2005
International Geographic, Raquel Ormella and Kelly Poe, Artists Space, New, York, NY (curated by Christian Rattemeyer)
2005
Empire Style, 2102, Los Angeles
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York
2003
Aspects of Life in the Doomsday System, Sixteen:One, Santa Monica PRSP, The Breeder Project, Athens, Greece
2002
Messy Fingers, Track 16, Santa Monica
2001
Kelly Sena, Mid–Residency Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia America Foto Latina, Museo de Las Artes de La Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
2000
Too Much Space, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
Biography
2015
Lilya Stambolova, My Memory is Greater than the Memory of the Camera, Grazia, Sofia, Bulgaria, June, 2015, p. 71.
EVA, CETA, Sofia, Bulgaria, June, 2015, p. 128.
Interviewed by Michael Huey, Under the Line, Sofia, Bulgaria, June.
2013
Peter Werbe Art in Support of Political Prisoners, Fifth Estate, Radical publishing since 1965, Vol.47 No.3 Winter 2013, p.13.
2012
Interviewed by Jean Marc, Prison Radio, Montreal, Canada,
September 28, 2012.
Sharon Mizota, Critic’s Pick, Artforum, March, 2012.
Catherine Wagley, Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, L.A. Weekly, March 21, 2012. Emily Nathan, The Los Angeles List, Artnet, April 12, 2012.
2010
Susan Morgan, ‘For the Wild.’ Aperture, Summer issue, #199, p.38-43.
2005
Roberta Smith, ‘International Geographic.’, New York Times, October 28, 2005.
2004
Cynthia Dea, ‘When Wildlife gets Snared.’ The Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2004. Holly Meyers, ‘Birds Caught in Desperate Straits,’ Los Angeles Times, October 5, 2004. Thornton, Sarah, ‘Focus: The Dark Nocturnes,’ Contemporary, issue 62, London, p. 32-37
2003
The Breeder, quarterly periodical published in conjunction with The Breeder Project, Athens, Greece.
Publications
Masters of photography, (S) PACINGS, essay by Vladiya Mihaylova, published by MUSIZ Founda- tion in co-operation with America for Bulgaria Foundation, available at musizfoundation.com.
For the Wild, essay by Rodney Coronado, published by LA><ART 2012, available at LA><ART.
America Foto Latina, published by Museo De Las Artes, available at University of Guadalajara, Mexico
