Kelli Connell’s photographs from the series Double Life have been widely received and included in numerous national solo and group exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Photography; and The Dallas Museum of Art. Connell’s first full-length monograph entitled Kelli Connell: Double Life was released by DECODE Books in August of 2011. While at MacDowell, Connell worked on Pictures for Charis, a project that includes photographs and writing that serve as both an homage to Charis Wilson and Edward Weston, and as a backdrop to raise new questions and dialogues about the spousal relationships of photographers and models in the twenty-first century.
Kelli Connell
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
Pictures for Charis (Nonfiction Book)
Studios
Nef
Kelli Connell worked in the Nef studio.
Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…