KELSEY FERNKOPF
Contact: kfernkopf@gmail.com
www.kfernkopf.com
Instagram: @kfasshat
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS
2024 Far West, installation, Pier 69, Port of Seattle, Seattle, WA
Wander, Steve Gilbert Studios, Seattle, WA.
2022 Big Neon Playground, Gallery 4Culture, Seattle WA.
Light the Forest, installation, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA.
2021 Transect, installation, Method Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Dervish, Shunpike Storefronts, installation, South Lake Union, Seattle, WA.
Hydra, Shine a Light: Downtown Seattle Association, installation, Colosseum Bldg., Seattle
2020 Piet, Lusio Lights, installation, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA.
2019 Big Neon, Steve Gilbert Photo Studio, Seattle, WA.
2017 Block and Bind, Calypte Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2015 Bears, Steve Gilbert Photo Studio, Seattle, WA.
2009 Blockheads, Soil Gallery Backspace, Seattle, WA.
2003 Horse Pop, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT.
Roundup, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
2001 Bounties, Gallery 4, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.
2000 Milk and Honey, Howard House, Seattle, WA.
Horse and Ram Stories, Kitteridge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
1999 End of the Trail, Blue Heron Gallery, Vashon, WA.
1998 Westward Ho! ArtsWest Gallery, Seattle, WA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Light Switch, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Connector: A Survey, Rudolph Blume Fine Art, Houston, TX.
2023 Building on Rest, Studio e Gallery, Seattle, WA.
XO Seattle: A Love Letter to Seattle, Seattle, WA.
1st Anniversary Exhibit, Mini Mart City Park, Seattle, WA.
2022 XO Seattle: A Love Letter to Seattle, Seattle, WA.
Seattle Design Festival, Seattle, WA.
Again & Again, The End Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2020 Bigs and Smalls, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2019 Your Life Story in Light, Refract Glass Festival / Western Neon School Of Art, Seattle, WA.
Jazz Mom, Nikita Ares, Kelsey Fernkopf, Cloud Gallery, Seattle, WA.
En Masse, Confluence Gallery, Winthrop, WA.
2018 Glow Up, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA.
This Noble Work, Inscape Gallery, Seattle, WA.
The Wonder Building, Art Spirit II Gallery, Spokane, WA.
2017 City Arts Art Walk Awards, Sole Repair, Seattle, WA.
2016 10 x 10 x Tieton, Mighty Tieton, Tieton, WA.
2015 10 x 10 x Tieton, Mighty Tieton, Tieton, WA.
Interstate, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA.
2014 Just Be Your Selfie, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2009 Artist Trust Auction, Centerpiece Artist, Fischer Pavillion, Seattle, WA.
2005 National Small Works Exhibition, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA.
Bashville, Henry Art Gallery Auction, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
2004 Sell Out, Howard House, Seattle, WA.
Whiteness, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA.
ANA 33, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT.
Art at the Port, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA.
Art Port Townsend, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA.
2003 Young Seattle Artists, Howard House, Seattle, WA.
Whiteness, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA.
46th Chatauqua National Exhibition of American Art,
Chatauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chatauqua, NY.
Art Equinox, Paris Gibson Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT.
2002 Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.
SouthSounds 2002, Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA.
Art at the Port, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA.
Art Port Townsend, Port Townsend, WA.
2001 SouthSounds 2001, Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA.
Art Equinox, Paris Gibson Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT.
Henry ArtBash, Henry Art Gallery Auction, Henry Art Gallery,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2000 SouthSounds 2000, Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA.
1999 Air Hockey, Howard House, Seattle, WA.
The End, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA.
Phresh, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA.
1996 Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.
1995 The Land, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA.
EDUCATION
1981 BFA, Sculpture, University of Kansas
PUBLIC ART
2023 Vanishing Point: A Neon Constellation, Seattle Tacoma International Airport, SeaTac, WA.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
A Neon Constellation, Photograph, Port of Seattle, Seattle Tacoma International Airport, SeaTac, WA.
RESIDENCIES
Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY. 2023
AWARDS
Allied Arts Grant in Craft, Allied Arts Foundation, 2022
Juror’s Award, 10x10xTeiton, Mighty Tieton, 2016
Albert J. Turbessi Award, 46th Chatauqua National Exhibition of American Art, 2003
TEACHING
2023 Neon Instructor, “The Lights in the Trees”, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA.
Neon Instructor, Museum of Neon Art, Glendale, CA., March 2023
2017-2021 Cofounder / Neon Instructor, Western Neon School of Art, Seattle, WA.
2015-2016 Neon Instructor, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA.
PRESS
Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review 44, “Vanishing Point”, pg.42. Fall 2024
Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review 43, “Gold Ventana”, pg. 50. Fall 2023
Clemans, Gayle, “Intervention”, Urban Glass Quarterly, No.170, Spring 2023, pg. 8
Manitach, Amanda, “Light in the Wilderness”, Public Display Art, Vol.2, Issue 1, Dec.-Feb. 2022/23
Vansynghel, Margo, “A Big Indie Alternative to the Seattle Art Fair”, Crosscut.com, July 13, 2022
Lambert, Ken, “Lighting up the Gloomy Days in Pioneer Square”, Seattle Times, Jan.3, 2021
Elliot, Gwendolyn, “Western Neon celebrates 33 Years with New Art School”, May 2018
Erickson, Anne, “The Artist Behind the Rainier R”, KING 5 Evening, October 20, 2015
Stallings, Tyler, “Whiteness”, Catalog, 2003, p.18, 43,52
Roediger, David, “Whiteness”, Catalog, 2003, p.63
Roediger, David, “I Came for the Art”, ArtPapers, May/June 2003, p.26
Mendenhall, Lauri, “The Helter Skelter of Whiteness”, Coast Magazine, May 2003, p.11
Hall, Emily, “The Stranger Suggests”, The Stranger, June 7, 2000, p.52
Joslin, Victoria,“Highway Signs Point to Unique Creations”, SeattlePostIntelligencer, July2, 2000