Born 1987 in Pittsburgh, PA
Currently lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA
EDUCATION
2023
MFA, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2010
BFA with Distinction and Departmental Honors, Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM), Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
Chaotic Good: 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Small Images, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA (First Place / Grand Prize winner, juried by LUM Art Magazine)
2022
Aether Net (solo), Glass Box, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Beta Epochs, Los Angeles, CA
No Internet (solo), Red Barn, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2021
In Place: a return, University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA (curated by Sam Toabe)
CA53776V2.gallery, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
CA53776V2.gallery, Terrain Biennial, Santa Barbara, CA
INTO THE VOID (online), MFA First Year Review, University of California Santa Barbara
GLAMFA 2021: Social Distancing, (online exhibition with catalog), California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2020
L👀KING OUT, Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (curated by Alex Young)
Lost in the Flood, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA (curated by Courtenay Finn, Chief Curator MoCA Cleveland)
Portal Constellation (reviving the webring) (online), Hervisions - The Art of No Likes, Arebyte Gallery, London, UK (curated by Sarah Friend)
2019
Utopia or Oblivion (solo), Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA
PHANTOM VIBRATIONS, Satellite Space, Portland, ME
What we don’t talk about, 937 Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
— — — — — —, SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 2019 New Member Exhibition, Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media, Pittsburgh, PA
Plug In, Turn On, Robeson Gallery, Penn State University, State College, PA
2018
Infinite Scroll (solo), Paul Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Hello World, Small Mall, Pittsburgh, PA
3577 Members Exhibition, 3577 Studios, Pittsburgh, PA
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition, Trust Arts Education Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2017
CSA PGH 2017, Casey Droege Cultural Productions, Pittsburgh, PA
HABITAT/ion, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Cabinet (curated by Adam Milner), David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
2016
Factory Installed, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
John Riegert (curated by Brett Yasko), SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA
Hothouse Clubhouse (curated by Ethan Kiermaier), Student Union Art Gallery at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
2015
ILLUMINUS, Fenway Park, Boston, MA
your heart is a prism, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2014
Utopia School, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR DREAMS, Mobius, Cambridge, MA (solo)
Art Lending Collection (Organized by Transformazium for the 2013 Carnegie International) Braddock Public Library, Braddock, PA and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2013
BYOB BRADDOCK, Unsmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock, PA
Sperms to Worms, Babyland, Pittsburgh, PA
2012
Tough Art, The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
HyperLocal 2.0, Assemble, Pittsburgh, PA
2011
HyperLocal, Assemble, Pittsburgh, PA
Portable Utopia, Keleketla! Library, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)
Day After Tomorrowland (curated by Brandon Andrew), The Mountain Bar, Los Angeles, CA
Your Place at the Banquet, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA
8 BITS per PIxEL (curated by dieNADA), IMC 5533 Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey
Souvenirs from Earth, Television Broadcast in France and Germany
Chain Letter, Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA
2010
Younger Than Janis, Noble and Superior Projects, Chicago, IL
Signal & Noise Media Art Festival, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC Canada
The Museum of Modern Nature (collaboration with Daniel Mooradian), Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
8 BITS per PIxEL (curated by dieNADA), MEME Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Exhibit (curated by James Hull), New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University, Boston, MA
2009
you cannot live forever, Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA (solo)
Spark (curated by Heidi Kayser, Sarah Rushford, Yuri Stone), Godine Gallery, Boston, MA
SIM Big Show (curated by A. Reid and E.F. Smith), Pozen Center for Interrelated Media, Boston, MA
H.E.A.P. HQ, Godine Gallery, Boston, MA
The Brick + Mortar International Video Art Festival (screening guest curated by A. Reid and E.F. Smith) Greenfield, MA
PRESS
Julian Harake, “Dead Ambassadors: Kevin Clancy”, LUM Art Magazine, No. 7, Spring 2024
Josef Woodard, “Post-Post-Modern Chaotic Funhouse”, The Santa Barbara Independent, May 30, 2023
Vincent Cy Chen and Wednesday Kim, “Interview with Kevin Clancy”, DE:FORMAL, March 17, 2021
Jessica Beck, “Utopia or Oblivion, Jessica Beck and Kevin Clancy in Conversation”, Bunker Review, April 3, 2020
Taylor Fisch, “Utopia or Oblivion: The Yesterday of Today’s Tomorrow”, Bunker Review, October 31, 2019
Bill O’Driscoll, “Art Exhibit Interrogates Digital Life With Artifacts From Imagined Futures”, 90.5 WESA NPR, Pittsburgh, PA, October 8, 2019
Amanda Waltz, “Utopia or Oblivion exhibition at Bunker Projects takes a colorful approach to addressing technological concerns”, Pittsburgh City Paper, October 11, 2019
Mary Thomas, “Eight ways to see, think at Mattress Factory”, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 17, 2017
Nadine Wasserman, “The Mattress Factory’s Factory Installed series continues to provoke”, Pittsburgh City Paper, December 14, 2016
Irina Skornyakova, “Kevin Clancy’s Portable Utopias”, The Chart, Vol.1, No.2: October 2015
Maggie Cavallo, “Kevin Clancy’s We Are Responsible for Our Dreams”, Big Red & Shiny, August 13, 2014
RESIDENCIES
2022 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2016 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2015 Cabin-Time, Deer Isle Archipelago, ME
2014 Mobius, Boston, MA
2012 Tough Art, The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2011 Keleketla! Library, Johannesburg, South Africa
AWARDS
College of Creative Studies Teaching Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara, 2023-2024
Grand Prize, Small Images, Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara Community College (juried by LUM Art Magazine and John Connelly)
Israel Levitan Award, University of California Santa Barbara
Chancellor’s Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara
Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition Juror's Award (Alisha B. Wormsley)
Nominated for 2019 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award, The Pittsburgh Foundation
Nominated for Emerging Artist of the Year, 2017 & 2018, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Anonymous Gift, BNY Mellon
Morton R. Godine Travel Fellowship (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Stephen D. Paine Scholarship juried by Edward Saywell and Kathleen Bitetti
Massachusetts College of Art and Design Travel Scholarship (Johannesburg, South Africa and Cape Town, South Africa)
National Endowment for the Arts John Renna Scholarship
Massachusetts College of Art and Design Auction Award
Massachusetts College of Art and Design Presidential Scholarship
GRANTS
2019 Investing in Professional Artists Grant, a partnership of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments
2015 Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Artist Opportunity Grant
2011 Heinz Endowments Small Arts Initiative
TEACHING / LECTURES / WORKSHOPS
2024
Lecturer, 2023-24 College of Creative Studies (CCS) Teaching Fellowship, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
Installation Art: Portals to Other Worlds [Instructor of Record], Winter 2024
Bits + Atoms: Sculpture & Extended Media in the Digital Age [Instructor of Record], Spring 2024
Exhibition Studies [Instructor of Record], Spring 2024
2023
Lecturer, 2023-24 CCS Teaching Fellowship, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
Bits + Atoms: Sculpture & Extended Media in the Digital Age [Instructor of Record], Fall 2023
Graduate Independent Study [Instructor of Record], Fall 20232023
Teaching Assistant, Art, Science, and Technology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2022
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Spatial Practice, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Contemporary Art, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2021
Teaching Assistant, Art, Science, and Technology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Gallery Manager, Glass Box, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2020
Visiting Artist, Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM), Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Teaching Assistant, Lower Division Print, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2019
Visiting Artist, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Visiting Artist, Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA
Visiting Artist, Mattress Factory Teen Co-Op, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2018
Visiting Artist, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Visiting Artist, Mattress Factory Teen Co-op, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Visiting Artist, Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
2016
CHAT ROOM (in conversation with Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Dana Bishop-Root), Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
ArtLab, Mattress Factory, PIttsburgh, PA
Visiting Artist, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Lecture, TechShop, Pittsburgh, PA
Visiting Artist, Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
2015
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR DREAMS, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist, Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Inflatable Architecture workshop, Mattress Factory Teen Co-Operative, Pittsburgh, PA
Inflate-a-space workshop, Mattress Factory Community Art Lab, Pittsburgh, PA
2013
M3: Light / Shadow, Assemble, Pittsburgh, PA
2012
Creativity + Contemporary Activism (with Greg Cook, Lisa Gross, Maria Molteni, and moderated by Maggie Cavallo), Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Visiting Artist, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
UTOPIA: Be the change you wish to see, Mattress Factory Community Art Lab, Pittsburgh, PA
2011
Visiting Artist, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
2010
“Understanding Contemporary Practice: Anything is Possible”, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
“Lost in Translation” (with Brady Cranfield, Paul Walde, and moderated by Gabriel Saloman), Signal & Noise Media Art Festival, Vancouver, BC
Visiting Artist, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
HAPPENINGS
2016 Body Beats (immersive video installation for Prince Rama performance), The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
MEMBERSHIPS
2019 Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
2018 3577 Studios
INTERNSHIPS
2010 Creative Time, New York, NY, Programming and Production Intern
2009 Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, Boston, MA, Exhibitions Intern
2007 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, Curatorial Intern