Tara Downs

Jacky Connolly

Biography

Jacky Connolly (b. 1990 in New York; lives and works in New York) gained her BFA in Photography, Art History, and Critical Studies from Bard College at Simon's Rock in 2011; she gained an MFA in Digital Arts and MSc in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute in 2016. Selected solo & two-person exhibitions and screenings: “Jacky Connolly,” Kebbel-Villa, Schwandorf, DE (2023); “Ariadne,” IULM University, Milan, IT (2020); “Phantom Edit,” Fitzrovia Chapel, London, UK (2023); “Ariadne,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2019); “Life Simulations,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, US (2017); “Paracosms,” Peach, Rotterdam, NL (2017); “Anhedonia,” Daata Editions at NADA New York, US (2017); “Hudson Valley Ruins,” Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, US (2016); “Shadows on the Hudson,” Kimberly-Klark, Queens, US (2016) and “Country Home Ideas,” Bus Projects, Melbourne, AU (2016). Selected group exhibitions and screening programs: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, DE (2023); “Haunted Engines,” BFI Southbank, London, UK (2023); “Ariadne (Official Selection),”Festival Ecrã, Rio de Janeiro, BR (2020); “La Imagen Renacida: Sesión Machinima (II),” Filmoteca Española, Madrid, ES (2020); “Post-Apocalyptic Realism,” Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE (2017); “Dreams and Nightmares, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (2017); “:-(, D21, Leipzig, DE (2018); “Abracadabra,” PAF Animation Festival, Olomouc, CZ (2017); Her work is held in significant collections internationally including the Julia Stoscheck Collection, Berlin, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her work is included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, "Quiet as It's Kept" at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Exhibition view of Phantom Edit at Fitzrovia Chapel, 2023. Brunette Coleman, London. Photo: Tom Carter.

Jacky Connolly, Descent into Hell, 2021 (trailer). HD video, color, sound

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Jacky Connolly, Descent into Hell, 2021 (still). HD video, color, sound

Exhibition view of Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photograph by Ron Amstutz.

Jacky Connolly: Ariadne, 2019 (trailer). HD video, color, sound, 50m13s

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Jacky Connolly: Ariadne, 2019 (still). HD video, color, sound, 50m13s

Exhibition view of Jacky Connolly: Ariadne, 2019. Tara Downs, New York.

Jacky Connolly: Ariadne, 2019 (still). HD video, color, sound, 50m13s

Jacky Connolly: Ariadne, 2019 (still). HD video, color, sound, 50m13

Jacky Connolly: Ariadne, 2019 (still). HD video, color, sound, 50m13s

Exhibition view of Jacky Connolly: Ariadne, 2019. Tara Downs, New York.

Jacky Connolly, Something Strange is a Soul on the Earth, 2019. Hand-painted stained glass, hand-forged steel, cast brass, 30 × 14 1/4 × 14 1/4 inches / 76,2 × 36,2 × 36,2 cm

Exhibition view of Jacky Connolly: Ariadne, 2019. Tara Downs, New York.

Left: Jacky Connolly, Our Lady of the Highways, 2019. Hand-painted stained glass, hand-forged steel, cast brass, 31 1/4 × 14 × 14 inches / 79.4 × 35.5 × 35.5 cm
Right: Jacky Connolly, How to Disappear (Autumn in Lonely Rooms), 2019. Hand-painted stained glass, hand-forged steel, cast brass, 26 3/4 × 14 1/4 × 14 1/4 inches / 67.9 × 36.2 × 36.2 cm

Jacky Connolly, The Lightning Flower, 2019. Hand-painted stained glass, hand-forged steel, cast brass, 28 × 14 × 14 inches / 71,1 × 35,5 × 35,5 cm

Jacky Connolly, Our Lady of the Highways, 2019. Hand-painted stained glass, hand-forged steel, cast brass, 31 1/4 × 14 × 14 inches / 79,4 × 35,5 × 35,5 cm

Jacky Connolly, Anhedonia, 2017 (still). HD video, color, sound

Exhibition view of Jacky Connolly: Shadows on the Hudson, 2016. Kimberly-Klark, Queens, NY.

Jacky Connolly, Hudson Valley Ruins, 2016 (still). HD video, color, sound, 30 mins

Jacky Connolly, Tales from the Borscht Belt, 2016 (still). HD video, color, sound

Jacky Connolly, Tales from the Borscht Belt, 2016 (still). HD video, color, sound.

Exhibition view of Jacky Connolly and Flannery Silva: Fawn's Leap, 2015. Kimberly-Klark, Queens.

Jacky Connolly, Fawn's Leap, NY, 2015 (still). Two-channel video, color, sound, 12 min

Jacky Connolly, Basement Puzzles (Rosh Hashanah Room), 2014. HD video, color, sound, 2m12s

Exhibition view of hTERT, 2015. HESTER, New York.

Biography

Jacky Connolly (b. 1990 in New York; lives and works in New York) gained her BFA in Photography, Art History, and Critical Studies from Bard College at Simon's Rock in 2011; she gained an MFA in Digital Arts and MSc in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute in 2016. Selected solo & two-person exhibitions and screenings: “Jacky Connolly,” Kebbel-Villa, Schwandorf, DE (2023); “Ariadne,” IULM University, Milan, IT (2020); “Phantom Edit,” Fitzrovia Chapel, London, UK (2023); “Ariadne,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2019); “Life Simulations,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, US (2017); “Paracosms,” Peach, Rotterdam, NL (2017); “Anhedonia,” Daata Editions at NADA New York, US (2017); “Hudson Valley Ruins,” Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, US (2016); “Shadows on the Hudson,” Kimberly-Klark, Queens, US (2016) and “Country Home Ideas,” Bus Projects, Melbourne, AU (2016). Selected group exhibitions and screening programs: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, DE (2023); “Haunted Engines,” BFI Southbank, London, UK (2023); “Ariadne (Official Selection),”Festival Ecrã, Rio de Janeiro, BR (2020); “La Imagen Renacida: Sesión Machinima (II),” Filmoteca Española, Madrid, ES (2020); “Post-Apocalyptic Realism,” Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE (2017); “Dreams and Nightmares, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (2017); “:-(, D21, Leipzig, DE (2018); “Abracadabra,” PAF Animation Festival, Olomouc, CZ (2017); Her work is held in significant collections internationally including the Julia Stoscheck Collection, Berlin, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her work is included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, "Quiet as It's Kept" at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.