bio / cv
solo exhibitions
| 2024 | Symphonic Worlds, Scheetz Gallery, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA |
| 2023 | Drawn from Nature, Cope House, Awbury Arboretum, Philadelphia, PA |
| Nexus, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2022 | Interwoven, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT |
| 2019 | Abington Art Center Spring Solo Exhibition Series, Abington, PA |
| 2018 | Point of View, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT |
| In the Presence of Light, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2017 | The Space In Between, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2015 | Solo Exhibition, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME |
| 2011 | Object and Ornament, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2008 | Components, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2007 | Observations, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT |
| 2005 | Point of View, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2004 | Pentimenti Gallery (Annex Gallery), Philadelphia, PA |
| 2003 | ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2000 | ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1999 | 1521 Café Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1998 | ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1997 | 1521 Café Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
group exhibitions
| 2026 | Drawing Discourse: 17th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, University of North Carolina, Ashville, NC; curator, Katharine Stout Unbound: Art of the West, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT. *This exhibition subsequently traveled to the St. George Museum of Art,St. George, UT Drawn 2026: 13th Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH When Spring Begins to Break, Pentimenti, Philadelphia, PA The Waypoint Installation, Montello Foundation, Montello, NV Seattle Art Fair, represented by K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Drawing Now 2026, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea |
| 2025 | Meadowsweet, J. Peeler Howell Fine Art, Fort Worth, TX |
| A Woven History, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT | |
| BOTANICAL Juried Exhibition, Manifest Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH | |
| 2024 | KinoSaito Annual: Community Art Benefit, Verplank, NY |
| National Juried Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL. Juror: Laura Bickford, Curator, John Michael Kohler Arts Center. | |
| Rema Hort Mann Foundation Buy What you Love, NYC, NY | |
| 2024 | Women in the City of Brotherly Love, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2023 | Wintertide, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT |
| Art Market San Francisco, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| LOAM, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE | |
| Reaching for the Sky - Trees in the Work of Jimmie Jones and Other Artists, Near and Far, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, Utah | |
| Out There, Modern West, Salt Lake City, UT | |
| 2022 | The Impossible Exhibition, curated by Tom Brummett, The Power Station, Villanova, PA |
| 2021 | Earth, Modern West, Salt Lake City, UT |
| Visions of the New Terrain, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2020 | Blue, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| Right Here, Right Now, Modern West, Salt Lake City, UT / Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT | |
| Interpreted Landscapes, Modern West, Salt Lake City, UT | |
| 2019 | Group Exhibition, BDDW Annex Gallery, New York City, NY |
| The Woodmere Annual 78th Juried Exhibition; juror Eileen Neff, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA | |
| (Insert Name Here) Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Paper & Thread, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT | |
| New West, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT | |
| 2018 | West – The Effect of Land and Space, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT |
| (Insert Name Here) Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2017 | Women Now, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA |
| The Enduring Reasons Why, Celebrating 25, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Inner Circle, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| Remember When This Wasn't Quite How I Remembered It, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2016 | Family Ties, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN |
| Summer Flash, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Woodmere Annual 75th Juried Exhibition – The Condition of Place, curated by Odili Donald Odita, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Abington Art Center Annual Juried Show, curated by Leah Modigliani, Assistant Professor and Program Head of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art | |
| 2015 | Summer Currents, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2014 | Within the Foreground – Works from the MFA Studio alumni, faculty, mentors and students, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| Outside In, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| Sights for When the Sun Arrives, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Eight Women Abstract Artists 8x8, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME | |
| 2013 | The Women, Part II, Peter Marcelle Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY |
| 2012 | Centennial Juried Exhibition, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE. Curated by John B. Ravenal, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |
| 20 in 2012 vision, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2011 | 2011 Immaculata University Art Show, Immaculata, PA |
| 2010 | Paper, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT |
| AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City | |
| 2009 | Globe Dye Works: Layers, Globe Dye Works, Philadelphia, PA |
| Botanicals – Artist Interpretations, Christys Art Center, Sag Harbor, NY | |
| 2008 | Moving Pictures, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT |
| 2006 | Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL |
| Art 212 Contemporary Art Fair, New York City | |
| 2006 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City | |
| Take Out, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2005 SuMFA 10, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Robert Storr and Elaine Reichek | |
| 2005 | Group Show, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2005 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City | |
| 2004 | 2004 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City |
| 2002 | Reflect and Respond Traveling Group Show, Burlington County College, Mt. Laurel, NJ |
| Reflect and Respond Traveling Group Show, Krasdale Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2001 | Reflect and Respond Traveling Group Show, ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1999 | Group Show, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| Summer MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Tenth National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists, Inc., New York, NY, Curated by Susan Harris, Whitney Museum of American Art | |
| National Juried Exhibition, ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA, Curated by Ivan Karp, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Annual Juried Exhibition, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA, Curated by Ruth and Rick Synderman of Synderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Group Show, Marion Art Center, Marion, MA | |
| Group Show, The Pie, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 1997 | Head to Toe, ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia PA |
| Philadelphia-New York, An Artistic Connection, Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ | |
| Miriam Shapiro and Us, ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 1996 | Just Desserts, ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA |
| Philadelphia Sketch Club 133rd Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia, PA |
LECTURES, GRANTS AND RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
| Oak Spring Garden Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Upperville, VA, March 2026 |
| Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2025 |
| Monson Arts Residency, Monson, ME, 2025 |
| Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Visiting Artist Program Lecture Series, Fall 2024 |
| Land Line Artist Residency, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, CO, 2023 |
| Montello Foundation Artist in Residence, Montello, NV, September 2023 |
| Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, June 2018 |
| Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, June 2016 |
| Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, June 2014 |
| Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, April 2012 |
| Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, April 2010 |
corporate collections
| Microsoft |
| Canon U.S.A., Inc. |
| Sonoma State University |
| Denver Botanic Gardens |
Bibliography (*denotes review)
| Heather Shayne Blakeslee, The Shift - Kiki Gaffney Gets Loose by Keeping Nature Tight, Root Quarterly, May 2023 |
| *Geoff Wichert, Kiki Gaffney, Hybrid Examinations of Nature Open Windows to Understanding, 15 Bytes, October 2022 |
| Shawn Rossiter, The Evolving Landscape at Modern West Fine Art, 15 Bytes, September 3, 2018 |
| Natalie McDonald, 10 Female Artists You Need to Know, Philly Voice, April 13, 2015 |
| *Nick Schroeder, What the light reveals, The Portland Phoenix, July 31, 2014 |
| Outside/In, Wall Street International, July 18, 2014 |
| *Newhall, Edith. Personal memories echo in her work, The Philadelphia Inquirer Weekend, January 20, 2006 |
| Art Matters Happenings, Art Matters, January 2006 |
| *Strauss, R.B. Art Scene…Adios, 2005! Weekly Press, December 7, 2005 |
| Point of View and Black and Silver: Unfinished Drawings, Home and Design (The Philadelphia Inquirer), November/December 2005 |
| *Fallon, Robert and Rosof, Libby, Pentimenti of City Walls, Robert Fallon and Libby Rosof’s artblog, Tuesday, April 27, 2004 |
| *Bers, Nan S., Manayunk’s ArtForms Gallery Invaded by Local Artists, Times Chronicle, April 8, 1998 |
| Sozanski, Edward J., Uniting Gestures of Homage and Friendship, The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 26, 1997 |
education
| 1999 | University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Masters of Fine Arts in Painting |
| 1992 | Institute for American Universities and Marchutz School of Painting, Aix-en-Provence, France. Studies in French Literature, Art and Art History |
| 1993 | Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, Bachelors of Arts in Studio Arts |