Raissa Venables
Born: New Paltz, NY, 1977

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1/2005 Presently Untitled - Solo Exhibition in the Project Room
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
4/2004 Claustrophobia – Solo Exhibition
Galerie sphn, Berlin, Germany
In conjunction with Galerie sphn’s residency program
2003 Opened Rooms and Other Vessels
Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, MO
In conjunction with a slide lecture at the Society for Contemporary Photography

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003 0730too: Contemporary Art in Jersey City
Alternative Gallery Space in Jersey City, Hosted by ProArts and the Jersey City Museum
Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado
2003 – 2004 Artwurl – PS122 Gallery (On-Line)
Visit: http://www.ps122gallery.org/artwurl/aw_projects.html
2003 Spirit in the House, Two-Person Exhibition
The Interfaith Center of New York
2003 IS/WAS
Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2001 2001 – MFA Thesis Exhibition,
Bard College, Red Hook, NY
2000 Krystallos – A Ten Faceted View
The Lyric Gallery, Highland, NYCOLLECTIONS
2003 The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ (Permanent Collection)
2000 – 2002 The Kansas City Mayor’s Office, Kansas City, Missouri (Temporary Collection)
1998 DST Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri (Permanent Collection)

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2004 Andrew Rhodes Fund for Young Artists
A merit-based grant awarded by the Visual Arts Foundation
2001 The Stanley Landsman Fellowship
A merit-based scholarship awarded by the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts
1995-1999 Outstanding Artist Award
A merit-based scholarship awarded by the Kansas City Art Institute

BIBLIOGRAPHY
4/2004 Opened Rooms and Other Vessels - Claudia Stein for Photography-now
7/2003 Arts shows: Joseph Nease Gallery 5-year retrospective - Elisabeth Kirsch for the Kansas City Star
5/2003 Space Composed from the Mind’s Eye - Eric Grimes for Review (Kansas City, MO)
5/2003 Interior Reality - Robin Trafton for the Kansas City Star

ARTIST LECTURES
2004 Guest Artist Lecturer at the School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
2003 Guest Artist Lecturer at Pratt College, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Artist Talk at the Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO

EDUCATION
1999-2002 Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College
MFA, Concentration in Photography
1995-1999 Kansas City Art Institute
BFA, Concentration in Photography and Ceramic Sculpture
1993, 1994 The Art Student's League of New York
& 1997 Area of Concentration: Anatomy for Life Drawing