About
Kylie McConnell is a visual artist and maker based in Kansas City, MO. McConnell received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute (2018). Rooted in experimentation and committed to the practice of play, her works exist in the expanded field of painting. McConnell's mixed media works are concerned with themes of repetition, collage-as-process, and self-recycling studio systems.
In 2020 Kylie launched garbage studios, a line of handmade homeware and art objects. Items for sale can be found under the section “garbage studios✿”
Email : kyliemcconnell8@gmail.com
Photograph by Zane Smith
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 - WINDOW SHOPPING, The Centennial Gallery @ Pembroke Hill, Kansas City, Mo
2022 - FREE PLAY, Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO
2017 – Shifting Tendencies, Summer House Films, Kansas City, MO
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Keepsake, a collaborative exhibition with Riley Rouse, Holsum Gallery, Kansas City, Mo
2018- Really, Apparently, Front/Space, Kansas City, MO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Kansas City Flatfile & Digital File, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
New Visions, Vantage Art Projects, Online Exhibition
2020
Shape Shifters, Lodger Gallery @ Troost Gardens, Kansas City, MO
2019
First Date, Open House + G-CADD, Granite City, IL & Kansas City, MO
2018
Run Riot, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Flatfile & Digital File, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
A System of Public Placing: Part 3, West Bottoms Reborn Project, Kansas City, MO
Undergraduate College Student Exhibition, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
BFA Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2017
In for a Penny, In for a Pound, Vulpes Bastille, Kansas City, MO
Dirrrty Realism, Dodge Painting Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Open House, 3402 Harrison Street, Kansas City, MO
2016
Converging Practices, KCAI Ceramics Collection Room, Kansas City, MO
Prospective, West Patron’s Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Veracity, Leedy Voulkos Undergrad Underground, Kansas City, MO
RESIDENCIES
2018 - 24/24 Alter Space Residency, Kansas City, MO
PUBLICATIONS
2018- Likewise Magazine, Issue 2 - (Assistant manager and curator)
2018 - Sprung Formal, Issue 13
2018 - IM/MATURE Magazine, Issue 1, Winter
2017 - Likewise Magazine, Issue 01, May
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
2018- Artist Talk, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, April 20.
COLLECTIONS
2019 - Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, MO