Artist Statement
My work, both visual and cerebral, is about imagery and what images mean; the coded structures embodied, inherent. From this, I work to address the meaning(s) of what is shown and then subvert them through rendering differently, working in order to find parallels either blatant or conceptual. I source from various obsessions including cartoons, anime, fashion, video games, film, memes, to that of famed art historical works and/or critical theory. Much of my work is seeded in reappropriating visuals to create different narratives outside of power hierarchies, suspended from reality. I am keenly interested in the implications of technology on perception, experience, and artistic medium. Working between multiple programs, screens, and files - layering to at once address the latent meanings within the samples, whether still or in motion, while weaving an abstracted realm free of such earthly confines of gravity, falling past the expectations of the real.
-A. Morgan McKendry
Curriculum vitae
Education
MA 2019 Master of Art & Museum Studies, Georgetown University | Spring Semester at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, Contemporary Art Program
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University | Studio art courses at SMFA & academics at Tufts
Awards, Honors, and Grants
2021
City Artist Corps Grants • New York Foundation of the Arts • Recipient
2019
Graduate Research Project Awards (GRPA) • Graduate Student Government • Georgetown University • Recipient
2015
SMFA at Tufts University • Graphic Arts Annual Award • Most Socially Engaged Work, Honorable Mention
Residencies
2023
Loop Art Critique • The Critique Club, The Salon, and The Salon des Refuses (Metaverse) • Participating Artist • Hosted with Onland • mentor Ariel Baron-Robbins, The MUD Foundation • January 2023 - March 2023
2022
BeFantastic Beyond (International) • BeFantastic Beyond Fellow • Leading partners BeFantastic (India), Jaaga (India), Future Everything (UK), primarily supported by British Council India/UK Together Season of Culture, and communications partner dara networks. • September 2022 - January 2023
Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency • Conversations in Practice (Virtual Seminar/Saugatuck, MI) • mentor Alivia Zivich • February - March 2022
2021
BeFantastic Together (International) • BeFantastic Together Fellow • with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Singapore, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (New Delhi) and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore, in partnership with ThoughtWorks Arts (USA), Supernormal (Singapore), In The Wild (Singapore), and Dara.network (USA/India) • August 2021 - December 2021
Project: Earthling Meditations, with Li Actuallee (India), Edward Hutchins (Singapore), Shahrukh Khan (Pakistan), and mentor Meredith Thomas (Germany)
NYAEA Curatorial Residency 2021 • Curatorial Resident (New York, NY) • March 2021- July 2021
PILOTENKUECHE • Resident Artist • Online Residency, International Residency Program (Leipzig, Germany) • January - February 2021
Exhibitions
2023
NFT NYC • Participating Artist (Artist Village) • Hudson Yards (New York, NY) • April 12th - 14th, 2023
Digital and Mystical: Art and Identity in the Metaverse • Curatorial supervision Ariel Baron-Robbins, Loop Art Critique • metaverse exhibition presented with Onland, on display installation work plastique pastiche • Marco Caridad, cha, Laurie Luna, A. Morgan McKendry, Tripura, Peng Zhou • March 3rd - April 3rd, 2023 • catalog
2022
Miami Art Week: Bribery Corporation at The Elser Hotel & Residences • Miami, FL • Nicholas Dimes & Friends: Tan Tan, Tuna Bora, Tal Rickards, John Barrymore, slimebubble • December 1st - 3rd, 2022
Morphology: Beauty in Form • The Living Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) • May 6th, 2022
BeFantastic & Tezos India, India Art Fair in New Dehli • samplings from Earthling Meditations by A. Morgan McKendry, Li Actuallee (India), and Edward Hutchins (Singapore) presented by BeFantastic • April 28th - May 1st, 2022
Extended Reality Ensemble: Make Us Visible • Augmented Reality presentation of project Re-Canonization of St. Perpetiel by Heavenly Androgyne (Heavenly Androgyne is the collective of Alex Remnick, A. Morgan McKendry, Jen Dwyer, and The Glad Scientist) • March, 2022 & September, 2022
2021
BeFantastic Together Showcase • A cross-cultural fellowship fostering creative AI&ML technologies toward climate action (International, Remote) • Exhibiting artist, presentation of Earthling Meditations, Panel: Cross-Cultural Collaborations • Supporter: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, Mentor: Harshit Agrawal, Moderator: Meredith Thomas (Berlin, Germany) • November 18th, 2021
In Escalation • Pilotenkueche Online Residency, International Residency Program • a&o Kunsthalle (Leipzig, Germany) • Exhibiting artist • September 10th - September 26th, 2021
emerging.poetic • Brick City Galleries (Springfield, MO) • Missouri State, Department of Art and Design • Exhibiting artist • August 23rd - September 24th, 2021
Only If We Wish To • Equity Gallery (New York, NY) • Curator • June - July 2021
Score • Pilotenkueche Online Residency, International Residency Program • Galerie KUB (Leipzig, Germany) • Exhibiting artist • March 26th - 28th, 2021
2019
Fall Benefit, FRESCO Foundation • Co-organizer supported by Paddle8, Meno Parkas (Vilnius), Superposition (Los Angeles)
SYMPTOMATIC • Sotheby’s Institute of Art (New York, NY) • Curator & exhibiting artist • May 2019
Transcendence • IA&A at Hilyer (Washington, DC) • Co-curator & organizer • March 2019
2017
ILLUMINUS Festival • 20th Century Time Machine Television • in collaboration with Alien TV • Boston, MA • November 3rd & 4th, 2017
Conferences & Presentations
2022
FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology 2022 • Portugal: Instituto de Medicina Molecular (Lisbon), Convento de São Bento de Cástris (Évora), Royal Palace of Évora (Évora), Fundação Eugénio de Almeida Évora) • Technology & Abstraction • Presenter/speaker • September 12th - 17th, 2022 (Book of abstracts)
2021
Kolaj LIVE Milwaukee: Cut It Up Salon • Saint Kate—The Arts Hotel: Milwaukee, WI • Hybrid is the Future: Digital to Analog to Digital to Analog • Panelist • July 31st, 2021 (Schedule)
2019
Time-Based Media Art History: Project Plan with FRESCO Collective • Capstone Presentation • Georgetown, University (Washington, DC) • Museum Studies • Presented August 2019
2018
Minimalist Aesthetic and Museum Accessibility • Thesis • Georgetown, University (Washington, DC) • Art & Museum Studies • Presented November 2018
2015
Suzanne Lacy’s Transformative Power of Conversation • Senior Thesis • Tufts University, Art History Department (Somerville, MA) • Presented May 2015
A Student’s Perspective: Andy Warhol’s “Oxidation Painting” • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA) • Gallery Talk, Presenter • Presented April 2015
Pissing with Andy Warhol • Honors Thesis Tufts University, Art History Department (Somerville, MA) • Presented May 2014
A Student’s Perspective: Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s “Aurora Triumphing Over Night” • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA) • GalleryTalk, Presenter • Presented April 2014
User Beta Testing
DALLE-2 • 2022 - Present
Midjourney • 2022 - Present
Chatbot/Chat GPT-3, Chat GPT-4 • 2021 - Present
Elder Scrolls Online • 2014