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Kelsey Wishik--Select Resume

Education

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  • MFA in Fine Arts, University of Georgia – May 2021

  • BFA in Fine Arts, University of Southern Mississippi – December 2014

 

Select Exhibitions, Awards, Residencies, and Projects

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2025

  • Selected Artist, Art Blooms at Smith-Gilbert Gardens (Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition), March–August

  • “Radiant World”, 125ft x 15ft, Mural commissioned by and completed for Town Center Community, Marietta, GA, Noonday Creek Trail, October 2025

  • Selected artist for “Radical Imperfection”, group show, Athica Athens Institute, Athens, GA, October 18-November 23, 2025

  • Selected artist for “Small Works” group exhibition at Winterville Cultural Center Gallery, October 17th- December 18, 2025

2024

  • Solo Exhibition, Multiplicity, Tiny Ath Gallery, Athens, GA – August

  • Selected Artist, Trailfest Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Marietta, GA – Featured work: Cloudfoot

  • Commissioned Mural, Art Decko Project, Athens, GA – July

  • Featured Artist, Waste and Redemption, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA – April–June

  • Featured Artist, Chroma Dreams, Azjio Gallery, Atlanta, GA – February

2023

  • Purchase Award, 48th Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA – January–May

  • Featured Artist, Ethereal Existence, Azjio Gallery, Atlanta, GA – December

2022

  • Material Alchemy: Metal and Color, Group Exhibition, Athica Art Institute, Athens, GA – April–May

  • Persona, Group Exhibition, Feral Galleries, Athens, GA – February–March

  • Finalist, Athens Hwy Mural Project – February

2021

  • Juror, National Museum of Women in the Arts Mississippi State Committee Showcase, Walter Anderson Museum of Art

  • Recipient, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Research Grant

  • Whistling in the Dark, MFA Thesis Group Exhibition, Athenaeum, Athens, GA – April–May

  • Steel Magnolias, Invitational Exhibition, Walter Anderson Museum of Art, MS – May–August

  • Contributing Artist, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, University of Southern Mississippi – Sept 2021–June 2023

2020

  • OCAF Exhibition, Oconee Cultural Arts Center, Watkinsville, GA – January–February

  • Solo Exhibition, The Elements of Myth, UGA Bridge Gallery – February–March

  • Recipient, Judith Alexander Foundation Grant for Georgia Visual Artists – August

  • Elements, Group Exhibition, Steffen Thomas Museum of Art, Buckhead, GA – September–November

2019

  • Artist-in-Residence, La Wayaka Current, Atacama Desert, Chile – June

2018

  • Heavy Metal: Women to Watch, Invitational Exhibition, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. – June–Sept

  • Local Creative’s Showcase, Almost Circle Gallery, Biloxi, MS – March–April

  • Graduate Assistantship, University of Georgia MFA Program

2017

  • Solo Exhibition, Inside and From Afar, Almost Circle Gallery, Biloxi, MS – March–April

  • A Trip to the Moon, Invitational Group Exhibition, Walter Anderson Museum of Art – March–April

  • Fishbone Alley Showcase, Gulfport Galleria, MS – May–June

  • We’re All in this Together, Hattiesburg Arts Association Mural Project – November

2016–2015 (Select Highlights)

  • Solo Exhibitions: Awe and Ordinary & Imprints and Artifacts, Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center – July–September

  • Winner, People’s Choice Award, All Aboard Exhibition, Hattiesburg Train Depot – October 2012

  • 1st Place, Sculpture, USM Annual Student Show – 2014

  • Member, Alabama Art Casting – Various Dates

  • Studio Assistant to Jennifer Torres – 2014

  • Sculpture Conference Assistant, International Sculpture Conference, New Orleans, LA – 2014

 

Select Commissioned Public Works

 

  • Portal, Outdoor Steel Sculpture, University of Southern Mississippi – September 2021

  • Large Steel Sculpture, Amy Parry Projects, Atlanta, GA – July 2022

  • Mural, Soplo Del Tambo Ecovillage Retreat Center, Cocorná, Colombia – August 2021

  • Mural, Thomas St. Studios, University of Georgia – September 2020

  • Mural, La Wayaka LTD, Atacama Desert, Chile – 2019

  • Mural, Hattiesburg Public Art Alliance – We’re All in this Together, 2018

  • Sound Singularity, Steel Sculpture, Hutchinson Sculpture Trail, MN – July 2018

  • Mural, Fishbone Alley Mural Project, Gulfport, MS – 2017​​

 


For additional rewards, accomplishments, and projects please request a full resume. 

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