Mallory Ryan Kimmel
Education
2019 MFA, Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017 BA, Studio Art, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2017 BS, Ecology, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
Professional Experience
Teaching Experience
2025
Visiting Assistant Professor in Foundations, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, Three-Dimensional Design Fall 2025, Spring 2026 (forthcoming)
Adjunct Professor, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD, Two-Dimensional Design Summer 2025 (virtual synchronous)
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, American University, Washington D.C., The Studio Experience: Sculpture, Spring 2025
Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Furniture Design as Social Justice, Spring 2025
Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Sculpture 1, Spring 2025
Adjunct Professor, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD, Two-Dimensional Design Spring 2025
2024
Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Sculpture 1, Fall 2024
Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Sculpture 1, Fall 2024
Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Sophomore Core, Fall 2024
Adjunct Professor, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD, Two-Dimensional Design, Fall 2024
Lecturer, The Corcoran School of Art and Design at George Washington University, Washington D.C., Form and Materials, Spring 2024
Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Sculpture 1, Spring 2024,
2023
Instructor of Record, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Elements of Drawing II, Fall 2023
Adjunct Faculty, Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, MD, Art Appreciation, Fall 2023
Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Two-Dimensional Design & Color, Fall 2023
Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Two-Dimensional Design & Color, Fall 2023
Adjunct Professor, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD, Introduction to the Arts, Fall 2023
Adjunct Professor, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD, Introduction to the Arts, Summer 2023 (virtual synchronous)
Lecturer, The Corcoran School of Art and Design at George Washington University, Washington D.C., Form and Materials, Spring 2023
2021-23
Art and Engineering Teacher, Dundalk High School, Baltimore, MD
(courses taught: Advanced Placement Studio Art 1, Foundations of Art, Introduction to Engineering)
2020-21
Instructor, The Woodworker’s Club, Rockville, MD (courses taught: Fundamentals of Woodworking for Women, Non-Binary and Queer Individuals, Resin Art 101, Fundamentals of Woodworking)
2018
Graduate Teaching Assistant, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (3D: Hand Production, Spring 2018 and Shifting 2+3 Dimensions, Fall 2018)
Art Specialist, Sandy Spring Friend School Camp, Sandy Spring, MD
2016
Student-Teacher, Susquehanna University Art Department, Selinsgrove, PA (Led a Chine collé workshop for a printmaking class)
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2027 Public Rest, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington D.C., curated by Anisa Olufemi (forthcoming)
2025 Gumno: The Gathering Place, Cultural Center Semberija, Bijeljina, Republic of Srpska (RS), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) curated by Pavle Golijanin (forthcoming)
2023 Hands-Free Spoon Screening, The University of Maryland Clarvit Courtyard, College Park, MD curated by Mollye Bendell
2020 Flagpole Project, Social Studies Residency, Arbuckle, CA curated by Ross Roadruck
2018 Unstretched and Untucked, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA curated by Amanda Rush
Group Exhibitions
2026. new.now., Hamiltonian Artists, Washington D.C., curated by Anisa Olufemi (forthcoming)
2024-26 Diversity in Art, Inaugural Gallery at The U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C., curated by Chantay White-Eley
2025 ARTS by George, College for Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, curated by John von Bergen
2025 NEXT/NOW Exhibition, Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, curated by Sheldon Scott
2025 Aeonian: The Power of Feminine Creativity, Luann Carra Gallery, Baltimore, MD, juried by Erin Gouldin, curated by Juann Carra
2024 No Place Like Home, Hamiltonian Artists, Umbrella Art Fair, Washington, D.C. curated by Lily Siegel (catalog)
2024 Off the Web, The Peale, Baltimore’s Community Museum, Baltimore, MD, curated by Jeffrey Kent
2024 Takeover, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, D.C., curated by participating artists
2024 Phone Keys Wallet, Cocohunday Gallery, Tampa, FL, curated by Libbi Ponce and Jason Lazarus
2024 Site: Visions of Nature, Brooklyn Gallery, New York City, NY, curated by Gabriel de Guzman
2023 Queering Nature, Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD, curated by Stephanie Mercedes
2023 People and the Planet, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C., curated by Karine Aigner, Alan C. Braddock, Tarah Houge, and Robert Yi
2023 Morphologies, Your Mood Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Selby Sohn
2023 Play, Strathmore Mansion, North Bethesda, MD, curated by Zoma Wallace
2023 March150, Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA, curated by Catherine Leonard
2022 Bits and Pieces, Falls Church Arts Gallery, Falls Church, MD, curated by Sherry Trachtman
2022 A Space in Place, Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD, curated by Natalie Fulgencio-Turner
2020 ART-IN-PLACE, Terrain and CNL Projects, Chicago, IL, curated by Cortney Leder
2020 Two-Person Exhibition, Reflections on Our Constructed Niche, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, *Covid-19 Canceled*, curated by Chris Marin
2019 Extra Ordinary, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Samantha Reynolds (catalog)
2019 Alma Mater: Methods, CCA Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA, curated by Josh Stulen
2019 Commencement Exhibition 2019, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Bryndís Hafthorsdottir
2019 MFA Now 2019, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, curated by Samantha Reynolds (catalog)
2019 2019 MFA CCA Exhibition, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA, curated by Glen Helfand, Ranu Mukherjee, and Kim Nyugen
2018 California College of the Arts Graduate Center Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2017 Useless Initiatives, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Leandra Burnett
2017 California College of the Arts Graduate Center Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2017 ArtSpan’s Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2017 New Look Exhibition, Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA, curated by Bryndís Hafthorsdottir
2017 Polychrome, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Selinsgrove, PA, curated by Dan Olivette
Fellowships and Residencies
2025-27 Hamiltonian Fellowship, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, D.C.
2026 Montgomery College Alumni Artist in Residence, Rockville, MD
2025 Digital Artist in Residence, The Nicholson Project, Washington, D.C.
2024 Resident Artist, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, D.C.
2023 Jeanie Lea Knight Fellowship, Studio Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2023 Artist in Residence Finalist, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
2022 Social Justice Fellowship Finalist, VisArts, Rockville, MD
2020 Artist in Residence, Social Studies, Arbuckle, CA
2019 Curatorial Fellowship, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017 Outreach Artist (Artist in Residence), National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) funded DBO-NCIS Interdisciplinary Research Cruise aboard USCGC HEALY (1702); Arctic Ocean
Publications
2025
Kimmel, Mallory. “How to Make School Suck Less: Students Redesign the Infrastructure and Social Architecture of High School”. Art Book. Washington, District of Columbia: Do Less Press, 2025.
2024
Kimmel, Mallory. “The Composition of Wendel Patrick.” BmoreArt, 2024.
Kimmel, Mallory. “This or That: A Collection of Artwork Generated By a Human and ChatGPT AI with the Same Namesake.” Zine. Washington, District of Columbia: Do Less Press, 2024.
Kimmel, Mallory. “Thank You Letters to My Exes.” Zine. Washington, District of Columbia: Do Less Press, 2024.
2023
Kimmel, Mallory. “America: Land of Civil War.” Evolution DC, George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 2023.
Kimmel, Mallory. “How to Do Less”. Zine. Washington, District of Columbia: Do Less Press, 2023.
Kimmel, Mallory. “Gathering: Together, As Ourselves, As One” Review of How Can We Gather Now? Washington Project for the Arts symposium, . Do Less Press, (2023): 1–44.
Kimmel, Mallory. “Blacksmith.” The Wellness Zine Growth, no. 1, 2023.
2022 Kimmel, Mallory. “Collectivism.”, Abstract and reader. E-flux Reader, 2022.
2021 Kimmel, Mallory. “Liquid Introspection.”, Poet’s Choice, 2021.
2019 Kimmel, Mallory. “Defixus Anima: The Ecology of Aesthetic Relations and Companionship.”, California College of the Arts, 2019.
Reviews and Catalogs
2025 Brown, Shayla. “New Art Course Teaches Students How to Think Differently about Design.” George Mason University, April 2, 2025. https://www.gmu.edu/news/2025-04/new-art-course-teaches-students-how-think-differently-about-design?utm_source=george&utm_medium=email.
2024 Umbrella Art Fair 2024 Catalog, Hamiltonian Artists Online and Print, Washington, D.C.
2023 International Art and Design, CAP Magazine, Online, Austin TX
2023 Addition, Divide Magazine, Online, USA
2023 Art Seen Magazine, Issue 7: Spring 2023, The Curator’s Salon, Online and Print. London, UK
2019 MFA Now 2019 Catalog, Root Division, Print. San Francisco, CA
2019 2019 CCA MFA Thesis Catalog, California College of the Arts, Online and Print. San Francisco, CA
Curatorial Work
2025 Designing Intended Postures: Furniture Reshaping Power in Space, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2024 I don’t dream of labor, Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, MD
2021 Black X Film Festival 2021, Live Screening at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
2021 Black X Film Festival 2021, Live Screening at The ARC, Washington D.C.
2021 Black X Film Festival 2021, International, three-day virtual screening, online
2020 Black X Film Festival 2020, Live Screening at True Respite Brewing Company, Derwood, MD
2020 Black X Film Festival 2020, International, three-day virtual screening, virtual
2019 Non-View of the Lake from Underground, Torreya Cummings, ASG, Oakland, CA
2019 Between Beauty and Horror, Leila Weefur, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 VOC 6 Holding Breath, Group exhibition, Aggregate Space Gallery (ASG), Oakland, CA
Art Book Fairs
June 2025 Berkeley Springs Art Book Fair, WV
November 2024 Dallas Zine Fest, Dallas, TX
September 2024 Cincinnati Art Book Fair, The Carnegie, Covington, KY
December 2023 Book Paper Scissors, Philadelphia Center for the Book, Philadelphia, PA
September 2023 Cincinnati Art Book Fair, The Carnegie, Covington, KY
Conferences
February 2026 CAA 114th Annual Conference, Design Committee Panel, Chicago, IL
(forthcoming) The Value of Play in the Creative Process (panel)
April 2025 FATE Conference NEXT/NOW, Practicing Presence Workshop Chair, Tysons, VA
February 2025 CAA 113th Annual Conference, Design Committee, New York, NY
Artist Talks
November 2024 Visiting Guest Lecture, Interior Design 456 Special Projects, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
April 2024 Curator-led Artist Talk with Ama Chandra, I don’t dream of labor exhibition,
Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), Essex, MD
March 2024 Curator-led Artist Talk with Chiara Francesca, I don’t dream of labor exhibition, Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), Essex, MD
May 2023 Collections Manager Speaker, Lunch and Learn: Careers in Art and Design, Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), Essex, MD
April 2023 Visiting Guest Lecture, Professional Practices 6000; California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
March 2023 Artist Talk Host, Twined Musings Exhibition; Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, MD
April 2019 Guest Lecturer, Painting and Cinema; California College of the Arts, San Francisco
March 2018 Guest Critic, Art Lab: California Climate; CCA, San Francisco, CA
Committee & Panel Appointments
February 2025-2028 CAA Design Committee Appointed Member, College Art Association (CAA), New York City, NY
April 2025 Panelist for Senior Seminar Review, American University, Washington, D.C.
August 2024 Panelist for the CAH Artist in Residence, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH), Washington, D.C.
July 2024 Pathways to Greater Inclusion, The Corcoran School of Art and Design at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
December 2023- Juror, 2024 Tephra ICA Arts Festival, Tephra Institute of Contemporary May 2024 Art, Reston, VA
August 2023 Panelist for the CAH Artist in Residence, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH), Washington, D.C.
March 2019 Academic Review Panelist, Junior Panelist Review; CCA, Oakland, CA
March 2018 Academic Review Panelist, First-Year Panelist; CCA, Oakland, CA
Awards, Grants and Scholarships
2019 MFA Now 2019 Creative Stipend, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2017 Fine Arts Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016 Joel and Trudy Cunningham Prize, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
Other Professional Experience
2022-24 Art Collection Manager, Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, MD
2022 Exhibit Intern, Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD
2022 Lead Shop Technician, Workshop of Our Own, Baltimore, MD
2020-21 Chief of Art Relations, Black X Collective, (virtual) Oakland, CA
2020-21 Education Director, The Woodworker’s Club, Rockville, MD
2020 Studio Manager, Something Earthy Ceramic Studio, Damascus, MD
2020 Event Coordinator, True Respite Brewing Company, Derwood, MD
2019 Gallery Assistant, Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2019 Studio Manager, Heather Day LLC, San Francisco, CA
2015-17 Gallery Assistant, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, PA
Collaborations
2025 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2026 Tech OWL, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Joint Ventures, Washington D.C.
2020-2022 Black X Collective, Oakland, CA
Professional Memberships
Center for Book Arts
The College Art Association
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE)
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
National Sculpture Society
Open Works
Philadelphia Center for the Book
The Phillips Collection
Printed Matter
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Washington Sculptors Group
Workshop of Our Own