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RESUME
Chelsey Pettyjohn is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in paint, sculpture, and collage. Driven by a need to create personal mythology, her work engages a specific collection of self-made archetypes and iconography. Themes reveal personal history: childhood fantasies, fragmented dreams, the secrecy of inner worlds. She is interested in the juxtaposition of delicate and grotesque; articulating the human experience in all its innocence and brutality.
She holds a BFA in Illustration from Parsons the New School for Design, and a BA in Creative Writing from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. She has shown her work locally and internationally; exhibitions include solo and two-person shows at ATLA, ChaShaMa, and Tennis Elbow; as well as group shows at Superhouse, Noon Projects, TIWA Gallery, Kapp Kapp, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Foxy Production. Artist residencies include Hunter College (2019-2020, New York NY), Portland Pottery (2021, Portland ME), Salmon Creek Farm (2022, Albion CA), and Brisons Veor (2024, Cornwall UK). She currently lives and works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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CHELSEY PETTYJOHN
b. 1989, Overland Park, KS
Lives and works in Red Hook, Brooklyn
+ EDUCATION +
2012
BFA in Illustration (with Departmental Honors), 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 +
2024
Mythopoeia, ATLA, Los Angeles, CA, with Ricca Okano
Box of Delights, ChaShaMa, New York, NY, with Rachel TonThat
2023
Witches’ Ladder, ChaShaMa, New York, NY, with Rachel TonThat
2022
Four Sonnets, The Bunker, Topanga Canyon, CA
2019
Water in the Canyon, Thomas Hunter Project Space, New York, NY
2018
Chelsey Pettyjohn, Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Self Kelp, 7 Dunham Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, with Ben Thomas Jones
+ SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS +
2024
To Have and To Hold, Hughes Memorial Library, West Cornwall, CT
Arranging Things, Superhouse Gallery, New York, NY
Import/Export, Noon Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Aesthetics of Everyday Objects, ATLA, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Ninth Life, Calico Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Open Concepts, PISCINA, Brooklyn, NY
Varied Vessel, Calico Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022
This Land is Our Land, Dobbin Street, Brooklyn, NY
2021
Big Plates, Tiwa Select, Stone Ridge, NY
2019
Living and Real, Kapp Kapp, Philadelphia, PA
While Supplies Last, Mount Analogue, Seattle, WA
2018
Still Big, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
Mature Themes, Foxy Production, New York, NY
2018 White Columns Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York, NY
Melted City 4: New York, YUI Gallery, New York, NY
Got it for Cheap, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, 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
+ RESIDENCIES / AWARDS +
2024
Artist Residency, Brisons Veor, Cornwall, UK
2022
Artist Residency, Salmon Creek Farm, Albion, CA
2021
Artist Residency, Portland Pottery, Portland, ME
2019-2020
Artist Residency, Hunter College - Ceramics, New York, NY
2014
Artist Residency, 7 Dunham Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Award, Society of Illustrators, Leo & Diane Dillon Scholarship
2012
Award, Society of Illustrators, Nancy Lee Rhodes Roberts Scholarship
+ PUBLICATIONS +
Peer Review, Vol. 2, (Print, 2024)
Melted City 3, Issue 1, (Print, 2016)
Cavity Zine, Vol II, (Print, 2016)
TagTagTag Mag, Issue 01 (Print, 2015)
Secret Behavior, Issue 01: Anonymity, (Print, 2014)
American Illustration 33 Annual, (Print, 2014)
TagTagTag Mag, Issue 00 (Digital, 2014)
MAKING IT, Issue One, (Print, 2013)
Sad Girls, Issue Two (Print, 2013)
American Illustration 31 Annual (Print, 2012)
Communication Arts 53, Illustration Annual (Print, 2012)
Her Royal Majesty, Issue 11 (Print, 2011)