Mckenna Goade

mckennagoade@mac.com

Artist/Inventor/Question Asker
New York, NY


Education

2026    MFA Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design at The New School. New York, NY

2023    BFA in Painting and Drawing; Minor in Art History, Utah Valley University. Orem, UT


Exhibitions

2026    Earth Day Art Show, Climate Justice Club, 39 W 13th Street, New York, NY

2026    Chipped Teeth & Empty Bellies, Sheila & Aronson Design Center, 2 W 13th Street, New York, NY 

2025    Open Studios, 39 W 13th Street, New York, NY

2024    Open Studios,  25 East Gallery, New York, NY

2024    Common Ground, 25 East Gallery, Curated by Danielle Sargeant, New York, NY

2024    Until It Dies (Solo Show), Odd Duck Studio, Provo, UT

2024    Alumni Art Exhibition,  Lakemount Museum of Art, Orem, UT

2023    The Grass Grows (BFA Exhibition), Gallery on 6th, Orem, UT

2023    Composing Chaos (Art & Design Book Exhibition), Gallery on 6th, Curated by Eden Christensen, Ember Martinez, and Olivia Harris, Orem, UT

2023    Student Art Exhibition, Noorda Center for the Performing Arts,   Curated and Juried by Douglas Fryer, Orem, UT

2023    Echoes of Absence, Gallery 402, Group Exhibition with Hollie Anderson and Brittney Weiland, Orem, UT

2022    Walking, Gallery 402, Exhibition with Marissa Albrecht, Orem, UT

2022    Student Art Exhibition Online Exhibition, Curated and Juried by UVU Museum of Art

2022    Instinct. Black and White Works on Paper,  Gallery on 6th, Curated by UVU Department of Art + Design Faculty, Orem, UT

2022    Motherhood: Hurt and Hope, Gallery on 6th, Curated by Arika Lau, Orem, UT

2022    A New Page, JKR Gallery, Curated by J. Kirk Richards, Provo, UT


Conferences and Presentations

2023    SECAC (Formerly South-Eastern Colleges Conference), Richmond, VA

Grown Systems: Interrogating Life Cycles

Faculty Advisor Amber Tutwiler
Session Chair, Amy Chan            
 

2023    Utah Art History Symposium, Orem, UT

Verrocchio, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Rise of the Artist in Quattrocento Italy
Faculty Advisor Dr. Charlotte Poulton


2023    Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, The University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT

The Presence of Absence: Exploring the Shadows of Death
Faculty Advisor Alexandra Giannell


2023    Scholarly and Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership Team (SCULPT), Utah Valley University Orem, UT

The Presence of Absence: Exploring the Shadows of Death
Faculty Advisor Alexandra Giannell


Awards

2023    Painting Drawing Area Award. Student Art Exhibition, Juried by Douglas Fryer, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

2023    Humanities Research Prize. Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, Salt Lake, UT

2023    Second Place Creative Works. Scholarly and Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership Team (SCULPT), Orem, UT

2023    Second Place Art Award. Touchstones Undergraduate Journal, Juried by Alexandra Giannel, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

2022    Cover Art Award. Touchstones Undergraduate Journal. Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

2021    First Place Art Award. Touchstones Undergraduate Journal, Juried by Lovetta Reyes-Cairo, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT


Publications

2023    The Inner Need, Composing Chaos, Art and Design Book Series, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

2023    Notwendigkeit and Abstraction, Artemisia, Undergraduate Art History Journal, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

2021 — 2023    Touchstones, Undergraduate for Creative Writing, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

2021 — 2023    Essais, Undergraduate Journal for Literary Criticism, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

2021    Journal of Student Leadership,  Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

Right now, I’m wondering ...if contact is only an interruption, why do I so desire it?                    how to prevent agar and compost mixture from molding?                    if I saw lined paper in the clouds.                    how can I be without border?                    can watching these systems run trigger a response in the viewer that reminds them of witnessing death?                    can we compost "being"?                    am I permeable?                    what will the multitudes of bacteria that metabolize landfills make of their ingredients?                    how to be with what leaks.                    how to sit with the chemical, the bodily, the archival, as the mingle blur and stack.