Adrienne Kinsella is a fine artist, working in a variety of media, focusing on drawing and painting. As a California native, specifically from the Los Angeles region, a continual pondering of the issue of place and access…and often access denied is a continual thread in her subject matter. Her work examines relationships between interior and exterior, with and without, whether expressed in literal spaces or the privacy of an ambiguous mental landscape. Strategically omitted elements within the work play upon these themes and allude to the issue of loss.
Kinsella’s drawings are often rendered on frosted mylar, a semi-transparent substrate that echoes recurring themes of transience, and the dichotomies of public vs. private. Her vulnerable self-portraiture emerged out of the isolation of the Pandemic and has continued within her art practice. Deeply concerned with the potential of narrative in art-making, Kinsella utilizes representational imagery as a potential means of synergistic connection between artist and viewer.
Kinsella lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education
2021 Master of Fine Arts , California State University, Northridge
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 - I Will Always Love You, La Mama Galleria, New York, NY
2024 - A Woman’s Place, The Ebell Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024 - International Women’s Month Exhibit, CRE8 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 - California Dreaming, Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA
2024 - Medusa, The Power of Women in Art, Van Zaig Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2023 - The Iridescence of Knowing, OXYARTS, Los Angeles, CA
2023 - Black & White, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 - Kitsch & Kaboodle, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2023 - H2O, Shifting Currents, Light Art Space, Silver City, NM
2023 - Unframed, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2023 - Small Works, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI
2023 - Works on Paper, Firefly Artists Gallery, Northport, NY
2023 - Open Call, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2023 - Summer Camp, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2023 - 7th Annual Anniversary Exhibition, Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2023 - Literally, A Figurative Art Show, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2022 - Realization, CSUN Art Galleries, Northridge, CA
2022 - What’s Next, Southern CA Women’s Caucus for Art, Burbank, CA
2022 - Art In The Time Of Corona, H Gallery, Ventura, CA
2022 - Begin/Again, Open Mind Art Space, West Los Angeles, CA
2022 - 6th Annual Anniversary Exhibition, Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2022 - Art Matters, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
2022 - Illustration West 60, Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, CA
2022 - Your True Colors, Escondido Municipal Gallery, Escondido CA
2021 - Within, Without, Group Exhibition, Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2021 - Not! An Art Show, Group Exhibition, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2020 - New York Society of Illustrators 2020 Student Exhibition - Museum of American Illustration, New York, NY
2020 - The Color of Shadows, Solo Exhibition, Shed Gallery, CSUN, Northridge, CA
2020 - Soft Soap, Group Exhibition, CSUN West Gallery, Northridge, CA
2020 - Sidebar - CSUN Annual Painting Guild Exhibition, CSUN West Gallery, Northridge, CA - Co-Curator
2019 - Group Exhibition with Patricia Lauletta and Coby Cerna - CSUN Shed Gallery
2019 - Blinky the Friendly Hen, 40th Anniversary Exhibition - CSUN Shed Gallery
2018 - LA Open, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 - Moments Captured - Beyond the Lines Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Awards
2024 Residency - Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson VT
2023 American Illustration 42, Selected
2022 American Illustration 41, Chosen
2022 Second Place, Your True Colors, Escondido, CA
2021 American Illustration 40, Chosen
2021 Virginia A. Orndorff Prize Scholarship
2021 Graduate Thesis Project Grant, CSUN Graduate Studies
2020 CSUN Arts Council Scholarship
2020 Les Kanturek Scholarship, New York Society of Illustrators
2019 Associated Students Scholarship
2019 Los Angeles Printmaking Society Scholarship
2019. Mary Bayramian CSUN Art Department Scholarship
Experience
Artist Lecture, Occidental College, fall 2023
Professor of Record, Principles of Design, Otis College of Art & Design, spring, 2023
Professor of Record, Art 222, Illustration Materials & Techniques, Art 307 Core Art Studio, Art 124B Life Drawing CSUN, spring 2023
Professor of Record, Art 125A, Fundamentals of Drawing, College of the Canyons, fall 2022
Professor of Record, Art 222, Illustration Materials & Techniques & Art 307, Core Art Studio, CSUN, fall 2022
Professor of Record, Beginning Life Drawing, Otis College of Art & Design, fall 2022
Internship, Figure Drawing, Otis College of Art & Design, spring 2022
Professor of Record: Art 220, Watercolor Painting, College of the Canyons, spring 2022
Professor of Record: Art 222, Illustration Materials & Techniques & Art 124B, Beginning Life Drawing - California State University Northridge, spring, 2022
Advisor, CSUN Illustration Society & CSUN Painting Guild, spring 2022 - Current
Professor of Record: Art 222, Illustration Materials & Techniques & Art 124A , Drawing I - California State University Northridge, fall, 2021
Artist’s Assistant to Katie Dorame, Mural project for Facebook Open Arts, Sunnyvale, CA, 2021
Professor of Record: Art 222, Illustration Materials & Techniques, CSUN, spring, 2021
Professor of Record: Art 222, Illustration Materials & Techniques, CSUN, fall, 2020
Artist’s Assistant to Mercedes Dorame, for her installation at Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Teaching Assistant - Art 237: Printmaking I, spring, 2020 California State University Northridge (CSUN)
President - CSUN Illustration Society - 2020-2021
Vice President - CSUN Illustration Society - 2019-2020
Teaching Assistant - Art 222: Illustration Materials and Techniques, spring, 2020 CSUN
Teaching Assistant - Art 237: Printmaking I, fall 2019, CSUN
Gallery Assistant - CSUN Art Galleries - 2019-2020
Artist’s Assistant to Mercedes Dorame, for her installation at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, CA - 2019
Artist’s Assistant to Mercedes Dorame, for her installation at The Hammer Museum, Made In LA 2018, Los Angeles, CA - 2018
In Print: Illustration for Book - Do You See What I See? Discovering The Obvious: Finding a Better, More Meaningful Life by Robert Hanley, published 2017
Bibliography
2023 Hyperallergic, In So Cal, All Freeways Lead to Tovangaar, Ax Mina, Nov 2, 2023
2023. Artsinsquare Magazine, Issue 4
2023. Bold Journey, Artist Feature & Interview, August, 2023
2023 Canvas Rebel Los Angeles, Meet Adrienne Kinsella, June 1, 2023
2023 ShoutoutLA, Artist Feature, June 5, 2023
2023 Studio Visit Magazine, Artist Feature , Issue 51 & 52
2022 Conversations with Adrienne Kinsella, Voyage LA, September, 23, 2022
2021 Art In The Time of Corona, Vol. 2, Dab Art Co., Los Angeles, CA
2021 The Northridge Review, Spring Edition, Publication, California State University,
Northridge