Tara Downs

Jacky Connolly

Biography

Jacky Connolly (b. 1990, New York) Selected solo and two-person exhibitions and screenings:Scenes from Subnature and the Mineral Kingdom, Lower Cavity, New York, US (2025); Phantom Edit, Fitzrovia Chapel, Brunette Coleman, London, UK (2023); Jacky Connolly, Kebbel-Villa, Schwandorf, Germany (2023); Ariadne, IULM University, Milan, Italy (2020); Ariadne, Tara Downs, New York, US (2019); Life Simulations, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US (2017); Paracosms, Peach, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2017); Anhedonia, Daata Editions at NADA New York, New York, US (2017); Hudson Valley Ruins, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, US (2016).

Selected group exhibitions and screening programs: The Mineral Kingdom (Dark Green), 14th Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan (2025); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (2023); Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany (2023); Haunted Engines, BFI Southbank, London, UK (2023); Quiet as It’s Kept, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (2022); Ariadne (official selection), Festival Ecrã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2020); La Imagen Renacida: Sesión Machinima (II), Filmoteca Española, Madrid, Spain (2020); Post-Apocalyptic Realism, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (2017); Dreams and Nightmares, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (2017); Abracadabra, PAF Animation Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic (2017).

Exhibition view of Taipei Biennial 2025: Whispers on the Horizon, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, TW.

00:00

/

00:00

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

00:00

/

00:00

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

00:00

/

00:00

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Biography

Jacky Connolly (b. 1990, New York) Selected solo and two-person exhibitions and screenings:Scenes from Subnature and the Mineral Kingdom, Lower Cavity, New York, US (2025); Phantom Edit, Fitzrovia Chapel, Brunette Coleman, London, UK (2023); Jacky Connolly, Kebbel-Villa, Schwandorf, Germany (2023); Ariadne, IULM University, Milan, Italy (2020); Ariadne, Tara Downs, New York, US (2019); Life Simulations, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US (2017); Paracosms, Peach, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2017); Anhedonia, Daata Editions at NADA New York, New York, US (2017); Hudson Valley Ruins, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, US (2016).

Selected group exhibitions and screening programs: The Mineral Kingdom (Dark Green), 14th Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan (2025); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (2023); Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany (2023); Haunted Engines, BFI Southbank, London, UK (2023); Quiet as It’s Kept, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (2022); Ariadne (official selection), Festival Ecrã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2020); La Imagen Renacida: Sesión Machinima (II), Filmoteca Española, Madrid, Spain (2020); Post-Apocalyptic Realism, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (2017); Dreams and Nightmares, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US (2017); Abracadabra, PAF Animation Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic (2017).