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Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2025  

• Looking More or Less Like Some Thing, Northern State University, JFAC Gallery,  Aberdeen, SD

2024  

• Interface Inversion, solo exhibition, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo-si, South Korea

• Structural Deviation, solo exhibition, Rosewood Arts Center, Kettering, OH

2023  

• Art of Repair, Curated Storefront solo installation, Huntington Tower, Akron, OH 

• The Voyage of Life: Eli Kessler and Christopher Mahonski, two-person exhibition, Marshall University, Carroll Gallery, Huntington, WV

2022  

• The Voyage of Life: Eli Kessler  and Christopher Mahonski, two-person exhibition, University of South Carolina, McMaster Gallery, Columbia, SC  

2021  

• Unraveling the Apparatus, solo exhibition, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Kipp Gallery, Indiana, PA 

2020  

• Transtemporal Reaction: Eli Kessler / Eun Young Cho, two-person exhibition, ROY  G BIV, Columbus OH

2018  

• Eccentricity and the Human Touch, solo exhibition, WCCC Gallery, Youngwood PA 

2008  One Hundred and Fifty Percent Elasticity, solo exhibition, Richmond, VA

Group Exhibitions

2025   

• Brooklyn X Pittsburgh: The Industry of Art, BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, New York, NY, Curated by Eric Shiner

2024   

• Minotaurs, Foreign & Domestic gallery, New York, NY

• New Member Exhibition, AAP Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Curated by Alyssa Velazquez and Soude Dadras

•  Furry Friends, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Liz Park, Carnegie Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art, Anastasia James, Kimberly Diana Jacobs

•  Kent Blossom Art Intensives Exhibition, Kent State University, CVA Gallery,  Kent, OH

•   Art & Algorithms, Robert Morris University, Media Arts Gallery, Moon Township, PA 

•   Contemporary Landscape 2024, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo-si,  South  Korea  

2023   

• Elemental Impact,Chicago Sculpture International, Epiphany Center for the Arts  Chase Gallery, Chicago, IL

• Primal III: The Sacred Triangle, Vestige Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 

• Transcendental Arrangements, Miller Institute for Contemporary Art at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,  juried by Elizabeth Chodos

•  nice; 01, Northern State University, JFAC Gallery, Aberdeen, SD

•  More is Never Enough, Field Projects, New York, NY (online exhibition), Curated by Triton Mobley, Jacob Rhodes, Kris Racaniello, Lisa Schilling, and Tracy Thu Li

•  Biennial Faculty Show, group show, Kent State University CVA Gallery, Kent, OH

2022  

• Future Places, group exhibition, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, juried by Dr. Julie Wosk

• Currency, Cosmology, and Culture, group exhibition, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA

•  Visual Culture 2022, group exhibition, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo-si, South Korea

2021 

• Transverse, group exhibition, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Richard Hylton, Dan Leers, Lise Ragbir, Jessie Rommelt

•  Biennial Faculty Show, group show, Kent State University CVA Gallery, Kent, OH

2020  

• Transverse, group exhibition, Three Rivers Arts Festival,  (virtual exhibition due to COVID-19)

2019 

•  Season Pass, group exhibition, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH, curated by Courtenay Finn

2018  

• Contemporary Venice - ITSLIQUID International, group exhibition, Venice, Italy 

• University of Arkansas Faculty Exhibition, group exhibition, University of Texas-Tyler

2017  

• Shrimp Heaven Now, group exhibition, University of Arkansas Sculpture Gallery, Fayetteville, AR

2014  

• Pittsburgh Biennial, group exhibition, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 

2013  

• Upsodown, group exhibition, Newton Center for Arts, Newton, MA 

2012

• Touchstone Center for Crafts Faculty Exhibition, group exhibition, Fallingwater, Mill Run, PA

2009  

• For Lovers, group exhibition, Kim Foster Gallery, NYC 

2007  

• Options, group exhibition, Edison Place Gallery, Washington Project for the Arts Corcoran, Washington, D.C.

•  Company Picnic, Metro Space Gallery, Richmond, VA

•   Introducing The Commonwealth Bricoleurs, University of Virginia, The Off  Grounds Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 

2006  

• Crises, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School of Communication Philadelphia, PA

•  Debate Team, FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

2005  

• Science Art Jam, Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, PA