Wit McKay

STUDIO:

Norad Mill #304

60 Roberts Dr.

North Adams, MA 01247

www.witmckay.com

Lives: Williamstown, MA

EDUCATION:
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ’83, Art & Technology

bca, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, ’81, mixed media

ba, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, ’78, History & Art Studio

HONORS

American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist, 2020
Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, 2018
Yaddo Residency, 2017
Andrew Mellon Foundation Graduate Fellowship, SAIC, 1983

LIST OF EXHIBITIONS

2022- Becket Arts Center, Becket, MA

2021- Images Cinema, Williamstown, MA

2019- Norad Mill, North Adams, MA

2018- IS183 School for the Arts, Artist in Residence

2017- The Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT

2016- Tunnel City Gallery, Williamstown, MA

2016- Naumkeg Gallery, Stockbridge, MA

2007- Salander O’Reilly  Gallery, New York

1986- Bucknell University

1985- Lightworks, Cincinnati, OH

1984- First Prize, Village Voice Political Art Contest

1984- Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle

1984- New Museum, New York

1984- Light Factory, Charlotte, NC

1983- Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

1983- School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1983- Chicago; Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago

1981- South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

1978- Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

2011- 21, Visual Artist, Williamstown, MA. Developed several bodies of work, both locally and internationally. Primary medium large scale digital collage/archival pigment prints.

2000-11, Visual Artist, New York, NY. Developed digital collage technique that continues today along with printing on hand gessoed linen for portrait series.

1983- 2010 Freelance Photographer. New York, NY. Specializing in large format still life photography for the fine and decorative arts industry nationwide. My work has been published in numerous books, magazines, catalogues and advertisements.

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY

2018- ongoing, Images Cinema Board of Directors, President since 2020. Images is a small independent nonprofit art house theater. It has served the local community by celebrating film continuously since 1916.

2019- ongoing. Southern Vermont Medical Center, Regional Advisory Board, co-chair. Formed to help the regional hospital in Bennington, VT expand and better serve the sparse, rural population of southern Vermont and northern Berkshire County Massachusetts.

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