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  • The Devil Does What You Ask Of Him
  • Cake
  • The Bends
  • One Hundred Ponees
  • Intonations
  • Another Day In Paradise
  • Currents
  • Out Getting Ribs
  • The Green
  • But What Is the Sound Of One Hand Clapping?

CV

CHELSEY PETTYJOHN

b. 1989, Overland Park, KS. 

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

+ EDUCATION +

2012

BFA in Illustration, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

BA in Literary Studies, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, New York, NY

+ SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS +

2019

Water in the Canyon, Thomas Hunter Project Space, New York, NY 

2018

Tennis Elbow, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2014

Self Kelp: Ben Thomas Jones (AUS) and Chelsey Pettyjohn (US), 7 Dunham Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

+ SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS +

2021

Big Plates, Tiwa Select, Stone Ridge, NY

2019

Living and Real, Kapp Kapp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

While Supplies Last, Mount Analogue, Seattle, WA

2018

Still Big, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY

Melted City 4: New York, YUI Gallery, New York, NY

Got it for Cheap, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018 White Columns Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York, NY

Mature Themes, Foxy Production, New York, NY

Around the Clock, Gallery 88 1/2, New York, NY

2017

Plants Giving, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY

BOS Fall Art Show, Unruly Collective, Brooklyn, NY

Silent Art Auction/Heliotrope Foundation, Dobbin Street NYC, Brooklyn, NY

Melted City 4, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines

2016

The Persistent Nature of Urgency, Mayson Gallery, New York, NY

All That We See, Pinks NYC, New York, NY

Melted City 3, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines

2015

Shadow Collective, Outlaw Arts NYC, New York, NY

iL FIORE, Von New York, New York, NY

On-Lined Paper, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY

2014

Hrönir: Un-Lost Things, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY

Parsons Alumni Exhibition 2014, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY Dime Bag 4, The End is Near Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Bushwick Open: Twenty-Three Artists From In and Around, BOS 2014, Brooklyn, NY Log On, Ro-Ro Gallery, Berkeley, CA

2013

Cover the Wall, 7 Dunham Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Cryptic Beasts, LIFT Gallery, Detroit, MI

Drawable, FLA Gallery, Gainesville, FL

Old Wives’ Lies, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

My Generation, Mayson Gallery, New York, NY

Girls Girls Girls, 7 Dunham Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Illustrators 55 Annual Exhibition, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY

2012

The Open Opening, NRM Gallery, New York, NY

Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

BFA Illustration Senior Thesis Show, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY

+ AWARDS +

2014

American Illustration 33 Annual

2013

Society of Illustrators, Leo & Diane Dillon Scholarship Award

2012

American Illustration 31 Annual

Society of Illustrators, Nancy Lee Rhodes Roberts Scholarship Award Communication Arts 53, Illustration Annual

+ RESIDENCIES +

2021

Artist in Residence, Portland Pottery, Fall 2021, Portland, ME

2019

Hunter College Artist in Residence: Ceramics, Spring – Fall 2019, New York, NY

2014

Artist in Residence, 7 Dunham Gallery, Brooklyn, NY