bio / cv

solo exhibitions
2023Drawn from Nature, Cope House, Awbury Arboretum, Philadelphia, PA
Nexus, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2022Interwoven, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2019Abington Art Center Spring Solo Exhibition Series, Abington, PA
2018Point of View, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
In the Presence of Light, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2017The Space In Between, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015Solo Exhibition, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2014Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2011Object and Ornament, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008Components, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007Observations, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2005Point of View, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004Pentimenti Gallery (Annex Gallery), Philadelphia, PA
2003ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA
2000ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA
19991521 Café Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1998ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA
19971521 Café Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
group exhibitions
2024Women in the City of Brotherly Love, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023Wintertide, 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
2022The Impossible Exhibition, curated by Tom Brummett, The Power Station, Villanova, PA
2021Earth, Modern West, Salt Lake City, UT
Visions of the New Terrain, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2020Blue, 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
2019Group 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
2018West – The Effect of Land and Space, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
(Insert Name Here) Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2017Women 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
2016Family 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
2015Summer Currents, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014Within 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
2013The Women, Part II, Peter Marcelle Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2012Centennial 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
20112011 Immaculata University Art Show, Immaculata, PA
2010Paper, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City
2009Globe Dye Works: Layers, Globe Dye Works, Philadelphia, PA
Botanicals – Artist Interpretations, Christys Art Center, Sag Harbor, NY
2008Moving Pictures, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2006Bridge 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
2005Group Show, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City
20042004 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City
2002Reflect and Respond Traveling Group Show, Burlington County College, Mt. Laurel, NJ
Reflect and Respond Traveling Group Show, Krasdale Gallery, New York, NY
2001Reflect and Respond Traveling Group Show, ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA
1999Group 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
1997Head 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
1996Just Desserts, ArtForms Gallery Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Sketch Club 133rd Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia, PA
grants and residency programs
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
1999University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Masters of Fine Arts in Painting
1992Institute for American Universities and Marchutz School of Painting, Aix-en-Provence, France. Studies in French Literature, Art and Art History
1993Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, Bachelors of Arts in Studio Arts