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Kelsey Shwetz
Kelsey Shwetz is a Canadian born oil painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She has also lived and worked in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Montreal, Quebec. Her work has been exhibited internationally.

Work
Kelsey Shwetz utilizes figurative oil painting (a medium laden with patriarchal histories of prescribing ideals of beauty and divinity) to represent gendered bodies with contemporary ideals of beauty in mind, and to challenge the viewer to re-think these ideals. Shwetz's paintings focus on exalting the female gaze, as opposed to the male gaze which has dominated this medium historically. Shwetz's current projects are embracing more compositional and conceptual abstraction than in the past, as she works through the messier realm of nostalgia and memory as it relates to her long-held questioning of the norms of figurative representation.

Collaborations
Shwetz was one of the members of BLONDE painter's collective, exhibiting her work alongside fellow New York based painters Ehren Clodfelter and Beata Chrzanowska from 2013 - 2014. She is currently planning a foray into experimental film with her partner, the New York based filmmaker Phil Colidron.

Representation
Shwetz is currently represented by Brooklyn's Christopher Stout Gallery, which was founded with the goal of displaying "art that challenges authority paradigms, or that is feminist, queer, anti-establishment, hyper-aggressive, mystic and/or joyously sexual." Shwetz had a hand in the shaping of the direction the new gallery would take, having worked as Director of Exhibitions for the "nonprofit art think tank" Bushwick Art Crit Group (BACG), out of which Christopher Stout Gallery emerged in 2015.

She is one of a select group of artists whose work is featured prominently on the first quality and retail price index for art: Curatious.

Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions

2016        “Kelsey Shwetz: #tbt”, Christopher Stout Gallery, Brooklyn

2011         “Dated loyalty, dying habits”, Studio Béluga, Montréal, Canada

2008       “In Transience”, The Next Thought Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2015        “Desiring Forms”, Rabbithole Studios, Brooklyn

2015        “The Pagans”, Friday Studio Gallery, Brooklyn

2014        “Hrönir: Un-Lost Things”, Temporary Storage Gallery, Brooklyn

2014        “The Great American Summer Show”, Burkhard Eikelmann Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

2014        “Relaxing the Virgin”, Gallery Sensei, NYC

2014        “Juried Art Show 2014”, The Kinsey Institute, Indiana

2014        “2014 Whitney Houston Bienniel”, Finley Studios, Brooklyn, NYC

2013        “SWEET SKIN”, GalleryBar, NYC

2012        “Gifts of the Magi 2012”, C.C.C.P. Gallery, Brooklyn

2012        “Look at Me Now”, Steuben South Gallery, Brooklyn

2012        “Art Brownie RAINBOW 2012”, INDEXG, Toronto, Canada

2012        “Vernissage for a Cause”, Studio10King, Montréal, Canada

2011         “petit sacré // a little sacred”, Galerie A.B, Montréal, Canada

2011         “TIMETRAVELFUZIONCLONAGE”, The Torn Curtain, Montréal, Canada

Art Fairs

2014        “BACG”, SELECT Fair, Art Basel Week, Miami, FL

2014        “Galerie Burkhard Eickelmann”, Art.Fair, Cologne, Germany

2014        “BACG”, Echo Art Fair, Buffalo, NY

2014        “Starry Night Exposure”, SELECT Fair, Frieze Week, NYC

2013        “Starry Night Exposure”, SELECT Fair, Art Basel Week, Miami, FL

Curatorial History
Exhibitions

2014        “BACG”, SELECT Fair, Art Basel Week, Miami, FL

2014        “Artifact”, Studio 200 Gallery, NYC

2014        “RETROSPECT”, Studio 200 Gallery, NYC

2013        “Interior”, Studio 200 Gallery, NYC

2013        “BLONDE”, Studio 200 Gallery, NYC

2013        “Girls”, C.C.C.P. Gallery, Brooklyn

Panels, Conferences & Presentations

2016        “Women in Combat in the Army of Lovers”, Christopher Stout Gallery, Brooklyn

2015        “Creative Salon NYC: Labor” (Moderator), REVERSE Space, Brooklyn

2014        “Marching Forward: Collective Strategies of Women in the Arts” (Moderator), Temporary Storage Gallery, Brooklyn

2014        “Animamus Art Salon, November”, Casa de Costa, NYC

2013        “January Crit”, Bushwick Art Crit Group, Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery, Brooklyn

2012        “eXhibitions : a conference on the humanities”, Galerie A.B., Montréal, Canada

Recognition
Education

2009        BA Honours Psychology, Painting, University of Manitoba, Canada

Representation

Christopher Stout Gallery New York

Awards & Affiliations

2016                        Artist in Residence, Eastside International Los Angeles

2015-Present          Artist, Curatious

2014-15                   Panel Director, Bushwick Art Crit Group, Brooklyn

2013-15                   Co-founder and Curator, Studio 200 Collective, NYC

2013-15                   Co-founder, BLONDE Painting Collective, NYC

2013                        Artist in Residence (Stipend recipient), Can Serrat Arts Centre, Barcelona

2013                        Artist in Residence (Stipend recipient), Starry Night Retreat, New Mexico

2012-13                   Curator, C.C.C.P. Gallery, Brooklyn

2011                         Fundraising Chair, Artistes Sans Frontières Canada, Montréal, Canada