Jaclyn ConleyVertical Tabs Works Video Jaclyn Conley: Jackie& Brian& Eartha& Joan. Video of Jaclyn Conley: Jackie& Brian& Eartha& Joan. Studio Visit with Jaclyn Conley Video of Studio Visit with Jaclyn Conley Biographyhttp://www.jaclynconley.com Click here to download full CVJaclyn Conley was born in Canada in 1979 and is based in New Haven, CT. In her breakthrough series of paintings All The President’s Children, she references the archived photographs of First Ladies and Presidents sourced from Presidential Library collections in order to reimagine the American First Family as a symbol of the “American ideal”. Rather than creating a likeness, she uses the materiality of paint to communicate an inability to recognize these photographic images of the idyllic American life in contrast to the ever-present coverage of national conflicts and internal divisions.Conley has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including The Painting Center in NY, NurtureArt in NY, Projective City in Paris, Wynick-Tuck Gallery in Toronto, and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield CT. She has been an artist in residence at the NXTHVN in New Haven, the Vermont Studio Center and The Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver Canada, and received grants including a Connecticut Office of the Arts Fellowship, a Canada Council for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant, an Elizabeth Greenshields Award and a Fellowship from the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation. Her work has been reviewed and featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and New American Painting.Conley is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Hartford's Hartford Art School. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2020 Jackie& Brian& Eartha& Joan, MARUANI MERCIER, Brussels, Belgium Fragmented Bodies, Albertz Benda, NY Anthem, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago IL. 2019 All the Presidents' Children: a solo Booth at Art Brussels, MARUANI MERCIER, Brussels, Belgium NXTHVN: First Year Fellows, Tilton Gallery, NY 2018 Geoffrey Young Gallery, Idols and Icons, Great Barrington MA Deborah Berke Projects, New York NY. NXTHVN Founders and Fellow 2016 Art Votes: Visualizing the Democratic Process, Gallery Bergen, Paramus NJ Worlds Imagined, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield CT 2015 Geoffrey Young Gallery, Polysolaris, Great Barrington MA, curated by Phil and Sue Knoll Housatonic Museum of Art, ReMythologies, Bridgeport CT, curated by Stephen Kobasa GRANTS & AWARDS 2018 Canada Council for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant 2016 Artist’s Resource Trust, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Artist Grant 2016 Canada Council for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant 2012 Artists Fellowship, Connecticut Office of the Arts 2009 Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Fellowship 2003 Elizabeth Greenshields Award COLLECTIONS Ann and Mel Schaffer Family Collection, South Orange, NJ Barack and Michelle Obama Family Collection, USA Burger Collection Ellen and Stephen Susman Collection, TX Jesse Williams Collection, Woodland Hills, CA Kistefos Collection, Norway Maloney Collection, IL Marian Collection, Belgium Vanhaerents Collection, Belgium Vanthournout Collection, Belgium