Keenan Bennett , PA (310) 880-8345 [email protected] KeenanBennett.com

EDUCATION M.F.A. Interdisciplinary Fine Art 2 0 1 6 Certificate in Time-Based and Interactive Media University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA B.A. Studio Art 2011 St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN

SELECT EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC PROJECTS Unprecedented Times, Group Exhibition 2021 Science Center, Philadelphia, PA Bottom of the Ninth, Group Exhibition 2 0 2 0 Pinch-Hitter Projects, Philadelphia, PA 20/20 Mail Art, Group Exhibition Temple School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA Spitting Distance, Two-Person Exhibition 2019 Napoleon, Philadelphia, PA Stonewall @ 50, Group Exhibition Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Ad Astra Per Aspera, Group Exhibition Maxon Mills, Wassaic, NY Lip-Sync Parade: Queer meditations on history and visibility, G r o u p E x h i b i t i o n Curated by Doah Lee Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Into the Woods We Go, Group Exhibition 2018 Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA What Does Pride Mean to You?, Group Exhibition City Hall, Philadelphia, PA ArtBangall, Group Exhibition Hunns Lake Project Space, Bangall, NY Future Defecations: Riverfront Park Public Restroom Forum Solo Exhibition RAC Project Space, Spokane, WA Vacation in November, Group Exhibition 2017 Little Berlin Annex, Philadelphia, PA Loaded Dice, Two-Person Exhibition Schultz Project Space, Johnson, VT 30 Under 30, Group Exhibition Virdian Artists, New York, NY Happiness Greens Our Irrelevance, G ro u p T h e s i s E x h i b i t i o n 2016 Curated by Hamza Walker MAMA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA PLEASE COME IN, Group Exhibition Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA Keenan Bennett

SELECT EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC PROJECTS (CONT.) Cleft, Solo Exhibition Gallery 224 at University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Lady in the Water II: Maiden Voyage, C o l l a b o r a t i v e T w o - P e r s o n E x h i b i t i o n New Boon(e), Philadelphia, PA Video Snack 5, Group Screening 2015 Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Joint Custody, Group Exhibition Fox Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Lady in the Water, Collaborative Two-Person Exhibition Physical Lab, Philadelphia, PA Queering Our World, Group Exhibition The Gallery at Greenly, Bloomsburg, PA fall out, Group Exhibition Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI SO HOT RIGHT NOW, Group Exhibition Step Gallery, Tempe, AZ

Spring Fling, Group Exhibition The Greenpoint Gallery, New York, NY LIKE, Group Exhibition Charles Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Reflection ,2 S e r v i c e A r t S e r i e s * , C o m m i s s i o n e d P u b l i c Pe r f o r m a n c e 2014 FIGMENT First Night Boston, Boston Common, MA Moment of Silence, Commissioned Performance GRAI Endowment, Meyerson Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Illumination 4, Service Art Series * Old City District, Philadelphia, PA Warmth 3, S e r v i c e A r t S e r i e s * , C o m m i s s i o n e d Pu b l i c Pe r f o r m a n c e 2013 FIGMENT First Night Boston, Boston Common, MA Illumination 3, Service Art Series * Old City District, Philadelphia, PA Shade, Service Art Series * Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA Cyclite 2, Public Installation Port Richmond, Philadelphia, PA Illumination 2, Service Art Series * Old City District, Philadelphia, PA Warmth, Service Art Series * JFK Plaza, Philadelphia, PA Cyclite, Public Installation 2012 South Philadelphia Piers, Philadelphia, PA Sanitation, Service Art Series * Market-Frankford Line, Philadelphia, PA Reflection, Service Art Series * Reflection Pool, Washington, D.C.

Seats, Service Art Series * Philadelphia, PA Keenan Bennett

SELECT EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC PROJECTS (CONT.) Mist, Service Art Series * Philadelphia, PA Pawn Shop, Public Installation 2011 St. Olaf College, MN Watering Hole, Public Installation St. Olaf College, MN Dispelling Myths, Group Exhibition 2010 Gallery 332, Minneapolis, MN Annual Juried Show, Group Exhibition St. Olaf College, MN * The Service Art Series was a three-year participatory public art project between 2012 and 2014 during which “service artists,” equipped with assistive contraptions, would offer anti-climatic services to pedestrians. These encounters were framed in a context through conversation, with the service artists encouraging aesthetic readings of the situation and participation. The series aimed to critically examine of the politics of public space, art accessibility, participation as a mechanism for exchange, and the consequences of the growing global service economy. Every project in this series was conceived and organized, and every contraption fabricated, by myself. Friends and actors were recruited to perform the role of the service artist.

TEACHING

Instructor, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 2019-21 Design I (Black and White Design) Design II (Color Theory) Design III (Three-Dimensional Design) Instructor, K u t z t o w n U n i v e r s i t y o f Pe n n s y l v a n i a , K u t z t o w n , PA 2016 Introduction to Sculpture Studio I, II, & III

Independent Study: Figural Sculpture

Independent Study: Sculpture in Public Space

Instructor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Drawing I Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2 0 1 5 Making Space and Public Art for Ken Lum Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2014 Figure Drawing for Douglas Martenson

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, & AWARDS Queer Materials Lab Artist Residency @ Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 2020 Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY 2018 Laboratory Artist Residency, Spokane, WA 2017 The Church Studios Artist Residency, Philadelphia, PA Ox-Bow Fall Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI Officina Stamperia del Notaio Artists’ Residency, Tus, Sicily Vermont Studio Center Residency and Artist Grant, Johnson, VT Susan B. Coslett Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, PA 2015 Institute of Contemporary Art Graduate Lecturer Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA Keenan Bennett

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, & AWARDS (CONT.) Groupe de Recherche d’art Intégré Endowment for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA FIGMENT First Night Boston Grant, Boston, MA FIGMENT First Night Boston Grant, Boston, MA 2014

LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS Reflections on Participatory Art and Service, Lecture 2 0 2 1 Fiber and Material Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Queer Histories and Alternate Futures, Lecture 2020 Fiber and Material Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Material and Context, Lecture 2018 Studio Visit (Off-Campus), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA You Complete Me, Lecture Extra Credit Series, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Socially Engaged Art, Workshop 2016 Art Club Lecture Series, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA Verbal Wallpaper and Letting the World In, Lecture L i g h t e n i n g L e c t u r e s , I n s t i t u t e o f C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t , P h i l a d e l p h i a , PA Candy as Form, Workshop Lady in the Water II: Maiden Voyage, New Boon(e), Philadelphia, PA Experimental Theatre and the Play Sphere, Lecture 2015 Coffee and Conversation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Education for Socially Engaged Art, Lecture Living Library, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA Ritual Interaction Chains, Lecture Lightening Lectures, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

Postmodernism and Ghosts of Modernism, Lecture Coffee and Conversation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA AutoCAD and Laser Cutter, Workshop Independent Study in Arch, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Molds, Workshop Intro to Sculpture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Language and Gesture, Lecture 2014 Pedagogy of Performance, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

CURATORIAL PROJECTS [TBD] (forthcoming - postponed due to COVID-19) 2 0 2 X Ace Lehner (solo) Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Pa’lante 2020 Heather Raquel Phillips (solo) 319 Building Exterior, Philadelphia, PA #QueerLifePHL c o - c u r a t e d w i t h L i n d a L e e A l t e r a n d I r v i n g C h a n G o m e z 2019 Group Exhibition (50+ artists) William Way LGBT Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Keenan Bennett

CURATORIAL PROJECTS (CONT.) Venus Rising Gwen Shockey (solo) Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Chinatown Sailor Moon 2 0 1 9 Doah E. Lee (solo) Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Rest Belt 2 0 1 7 Ryan Flores, Manal Kara, Fran Lightbound, Daniel Luedtke, Leah Mackin, Liz McCarthy, Michael Milano Ohio service plazas off eastbound I-80, OH Picket Fences 2016 Gerard Silva (solo) William Way LGBT Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA EchoLocation * 2015 R i c h H o g a n , D o a E . Le e, S a r a h Le g o w, H e a t h e r R a q u e l P h i l l i p s Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA Uncommons * c h u k w u m a a , E . J a n e , S h a i n a G a t e s , K a i t l i n Po m e r a n t z , M a r i a n n a W i l l i a m s Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA * These exhibitions were part of a curatorial project founded and organized by myself and Kirsten Gill. The project, under the name Incubation Series, sought to cultivate dialogue between graduate fine arts and art history programs at the University of Pennsylvania. Each show was made up of artists from the graduate fine arts program and was curated by art history graduate and doctoral students Haely Chang, Kirsten Gill, and Hilary Whitham. These shows were held in independent art spaces throughout Philadelphia so as to extend the dialogue to the larger local community.

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS WHYY, “Outdoor art exhibition remembers the 100th anniversary of the Pan- 2020 African flag” by Peter Crimmins ArtBlog, “A Complex Composition, Bennett and Phillips’s new installation ‘Spitting 2019 Distance’ at Napoleon gallery” by Wit López Facility Magazine, “Bathrooms Made for Cruising,” contributing artist Artforum, “Lip-Sync Parade” Critic’s Pick by Bea Huff Hunter Title Magazine, “(S)Extra: Bait and Switches, Interview with Heather Raquel 2018 Phillips” by Keenan Bennett Inlander, “Potties and Bodies” by Daniel Walters ICA Posts, “Q&A: Keenan Bennett and Kirsten Gill” 2016 Speak Speak, “EchoLocation: A Conversation with Keenan Bennett, Richard Hogan, Sarah Legow, and Heather Raquel Phillips” 34th St Magazine, “BDSM, Teddy Bears, and Bacon Vaginas: The Art of the Heart 2015

COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS Practice Gallery, Member 2018-20 William Way LGBT Community Center, Art Gallery Committee, Committee Person 2016-19