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Klea McKenna (b. 1980, Freestone, CA) is a visual artist who writes and makes films and is known for cameraless photography and her innovative use of light-sensitive materials. She is a 2023 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Photography. Her work is held in several public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; United States Embassy Collection; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, and The Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She studied art at UCLA, UCSC, and California College of the Arts. Klea is the daughter of renegade ethnobotanist, Kathleen Harrison and psychedelic philosopher, Terence McKenna. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and their young children.
S E L E C T E D P O R T F O L I O S
RAINBOW BRUISE
2023 - Present
LIFE HACK
2023 - Present
RAINBOW BRUISE
2020 - 2022
GESTURE
2020
GENERATION
2017 - 2019
AUTOMATIC EARTH
2016 - 2019
WEB STUDIES
2013 - 2016
RAIN STUDIES
2013 - 2016
FAULTLINES
2015 - 2018
EARLY COLOR WORKS
2012 - 2015
P R E S S
E X H I B I T I O N S
VESSEL Julia Goodman & Klea McKenna
September 7 - October 28, 2023
at EUQINOM Gallery
Rainbow Bruise
May 21 - August 6, 2022
at EUQINOM Gallery
Life Hours
Mural at EUQINOM Gallery
SHIFT
September 7 - November 9, 2019
at EUQINOM Gallery
Witness Marks
November 30 - January 2, 2018
at EUQINOM Gallery
Group Exhibition: Of Many Minds
Theresa Ganz, Klea McKenna, Meghann Riepenhoff
September 7 - November 12, 2016
at EUQINOM Gallery
V I D E O S
Studio Visit with Klea McKenna, 2023
A 5-minute studio visit with visual artist Klea McKenna while she works on an ongoing body of work called "Rainbow Bruise", which incorporates camera less photography, printmaking and painting. Filmed during summer 2023 at In-Cahoots Artist Residency and Minnesota Street Project artist studios in San Francisco, CA.
ARTIST JOURNAL: Klea McKenna / No Feeling is Final, 2020
This 9 minute video journal documents artist Klea Mckenna's process throughout the 2020 pandemic. This work began as an experiment in how to make photographic art while at home with two small children during San Francisco’s shelter-in-place order. It evolved into a large installation that is now on view at SFMOMA in the exhibition "Close To Home".
Klea McKenna speaks about her process and the concepts behind Rainbow Bruise, 2022
KLEA MCKENNA
Lecture
Sunday, September 15th, 6:00 pm PDT
PhotoAlliance
Bayfront Theater (BATS Improv) at Fort Mason
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