KELLY TAPIA-CHUNING
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EDUCATION
2024 MFA, Fiber, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2020 BFA summa cum laude, Studio Art, emphasis in Photography and minor in Art History, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026* Kouri + Corrao, Santa Fe, NM
2026* Sacred Elements / Calling Elemental Spirits, NADA New York City, Milk Moon Gallery, Telluride, CO
2026 Speaking Ancestors / [Re]Awakening Spirit, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022 What is She Made of?, Harsh Collective, New York, NY
2022 What is Respect, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Material, Material World (Miami), David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2026 Labyrinth/Laboratory: Selections from the Cranbrook Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2026 Unfixed Terrain (curated by Kristen Becker), Clubhouse Gallery, Wellington, FL
2026 Women of Vision: A Pair of Us, Doral Contemporary Art Museum in collaboration with Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL (curated by Sophia Ballesteros)
2026 Unwritten Histories, Milk Moon Gallery, Telluride, CO
2026 Random Memory Access, Milk Moon Gallery, Telluride, CO
2025 Companion Species (Witness), The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL (curated by Marie Watt)
2025 18th International Triennial of Textile, Łódź, Poland (curated by Marta Kowalewska and Bukola Oyebode-Westerhuis)
2025 Selected Works, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2025 My Life Has Been a Tapestry: Textile and Fiber Arts, Onna House, East Hampton, NY
2025 Foundations Summer 2025, Material, Artsy.net
2025 2025 Statewide Annual: Painting, Sculpture, & Installation, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT
2025 Les Chingones, Material, Salt Lake City, UT
2025 Vanishing Waters, Rising Voices, Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
2025 Nepantla: Border Arte, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT (curated by Roxanne Gray)
2025 Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, Harsh Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2024 125th Anniversary Exhibition Utah Division of Arts and Museums, Utah Valley University Museum of Art, Orem, Utah
2024 Grace Under Fire, Library Street Collective, Detroit (curated by Kyle DeWoody, Laura Dvorkin, & Maynard Monrow)
2024 Alright Alright Alright, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2024 ASSEMBLY, NADA Curated by Katie Pfohl, New Art Dealers Alliance, online exhibition
2024 RAW, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York City, NY
2024 In the Shadow of the Wall, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT (curated by Nancy Stoaks)
2024 Notions of Materiality, PLAYGROUND DETROIT, MI
2024 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2024 The Space Between, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2023 Two-Person Exhibition, Sangre Mía, Material, Salt Lake City, UT
2023 A Greater Utah, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT (curated by Jessica Kinsey)
2023 Pearls, Pills & Protests, Onna House, East Hampton, NY
2023 Think Pinker, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody)
2023 La Quema Del Diablo, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2022 BODERWALLS V, The Border Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2022 3 Women Walk into a Gallery, Mark Borghi, Sag Harbor, NY
2022 Splinters in the ongoing normal, Project Gallery, Virtual Exhibition (Juror: Junni Chen)
2022 INSTASELECT V2, Mark Borghi, Sag Harbor, NY
2021 Second Annual Latela Curatorial Women in the Arts Exhibition, Latela Curatorial, Virtual Exhibition
2021 25th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art, JONATHAN FERRERA GALLERY, New Orleans, LA (Jurors: Beth Rudin DeWoody, Laura Lee Brown, Billie Milam Weisman, Thomas B. Coleman)
2020 Reclaimed, Reimagined, Field Projects, New York, NY (curated by David Rios Ferreira)
2020 Senior BFA Capstone Exhibition, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT
2019 Compendium, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT
2019 The Handmade Photograph: Contemporary Photographers Working in Historic Processes, Bostick & Sullivan, Santa Fe, NM
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
2024 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center
2023 Professional Development Fellowship in Visual Arts Award, College Art Association, New York, NY
2022-2024 Gilbert Fellowship, Gilbert Family Foundation, Cranbrook Academy of Art
2022 Artist-in-Residence, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2020 Outstanding Photography Student for the College of Performing & Visual Arts, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
2017 Student Artist-in-Residence, National Parks Service, Zion National Park, UT
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Benjamin Lima, “Review: Dallas exhibitions weave a story of textiles old and new,” The Dallas Morning News, October 7, 2025.
2025 Artsy Editorial, “7 Artists to Follow at Foundations 2025,” Artsy, July 16, 2025.
2025 Les Roka, “Art in its finest bad-ass form: Les Chingones at Material Art Gallery signifies cultural power, resistance, excellence,” The Utah Review, July 2, 2025.
2025 Sculpture Magazine, January/February 2025 (vol. 44/no.1), International Sculpture Center.
2024 “The Creative Edit: Kelly Tapia-Chuning,” Threads Art Exchange, April 7, 2024.
2024 “2024 Discoveries: Top 100 Early-Career Artists,” ARTCUBE, 2024
2024 Scott Iwasaki, “Kimball Art Center examines what it’s like ‘In the Shadow of the Wall,’” Park Record, June 11, 2024.
2024 Antonia Piedmonte-Lang, “Review: 2024 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art,” Runner Detroit, May 22, 2024.
2023 Lina Boyer, “I Exist Because They Survived: Artists Unpack Assimilation at Material Gallery,” SLUG MAG, November 1, 2023.
2023 Scotti Hill, “A Greater Utah Surveys the Artistic Output of an Entire State,” Southwest Contemporary.
2023 “The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Presents ‘A Greater Utah,’” Juxtapose Magazine, July 28, 2023.
2023 Les Roka, “Five exhibitions at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art make excellent case for breadth, depth of contemporary works by Utah artist,” The Utah Review, August 30, 2023.
2023 Heather Buchanan, “Onna House,” Hamptons Cottages and Gardens, August 2023.
2023 Devorah Lauter, “Here’s Why Designer Lisa Perry Won’t Consider Showing Male Artist at Her Art Space Out East,” Cultured Magazine, June 23, 2023.
2023 Katie White, “Fashionphile and Art Collector Lisa Perry Covets Vintage YSL While Carving Out Space for Women Artists and Her Granddaughters,” artnet News, May 25, 2023.
2023 “Onna House Greets Summer with ‘Pearls, Pills, and Protests,’ and Other News,” Surface Magazine, May 25, 2023.
2023 Emily Toy, “’Pearls, Pills and Protests’ premieres at Onna House for Memorial Day,” South Forker, May 16, 2023.
2023 Julia Szabo, “On View, Art blooms across the East End this season,” The Purist Online, 2023.
2022 Rachel Ebio, “Artist in Profile Kelly Chuning,” The Nashvillian, 2022.
2022 Laura Hutson Hunter, “Kelly Chuning: What Is Respect?” Nashville Scene, 2022.
2022 Ashley H. Palmer, “Kelly Chuning, Alumna of SUU, to Attend Cranbrook Academy of Art,” SUU News, April 18, 2022.
2021 Barbara Pavan, “Interview with Kelly Chuning,” ArteMorbida, December 15, 2021.
2021 “Local Art Looks Like This,” The Art Matters Issue, Go Local Flathead Magazine, Winter 2021/22.
2021 Art Seen, Issue 2: Autumn/Winter 2021, The Curator’s Salon, 16-17.
2021 Artsin Square, Issue 1: Summer 2021, 72-73.
2021 Friend of the Artist, Volume 14: 2021, Juror: Federica Fiumelli, 126-127.
2021 All SHE Makes, Issue II: Summer 2021, curated by Alicia Puig, 84-85.
2021 Create! Magazine, Special Edition Women’s Issue 2021, curated by Danielle Krysa, 86-87.
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
2026 Gochman Family Collection, Private Art Collection, FL
2026 Pardon Collection, Private Art Collection, San Diego, CA
2025 5M Collection, Private Art Collection, Kansas City, MO
2025 Salt Lake County Visual Art Collection, Salt Lake City, UT
2025 Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
2024 The Bunker Artspace, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Private Art Collection,
West Palm Beach, FL
2024 Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2023 Onna House South, Private Art Collection, Palm Beach, FL
2023 State of Utah Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection, Salt Lake City, UT
2023 Hostetler/Wrigley Collection, Private Art Collection
2022 Onna House, Private Art Collection, East Hampton, NY
2018 Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS/WORKSHOPS
2026 Artist Talk, Miami Art Hang, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
2025 The Art of Growth, Wachholz College Center, Kalispell, MT
2025 Artist Talk, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
2024 ArtTalks, Snow College, Ephraim, UT
2023 In-Gallery Artist Talk, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT
2020 Honorary Commencement Speaker, Department of Art & Design, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT