MK Bailey, b. 1994
Lives and works in Washington, D.C.
MK Bailey creates narrative, figure-based paintings, experimental landscapes and digital drawings that reflect her experience of the world. She uses oil, acrylic, and digital mediums to explore themes of loneliness, nostalgia, and the tension between dream and reality.
EDUCATION
2016 BA Studio Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2015 (Spring) BA Honors Painting, UAL Camberwell College of Arts, London, England
RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
2022 Semifinalist, Trawick Prize, Bethesda Urban Partnership
2021 FY21 Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2020 Capitol Hill Arts Workshop Gallery Artist-in-Residence, Washington, D.C.
FY20 CARES Act Award, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities
EXHIBITIONS
2022 (Solo) Secret Garden, IA&A Hillyer, Washington, D.C.
Familiar Flora, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
New Light, Project Gallery V, virtual
Superposition, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, D.C.
Flat File, Transformer, Washington, D.C.
2021 The Tree with No Name, Plain Sight DC, Washington, D.C.
ROYGBIV, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
New Ideals, Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
Flat File, Transformer, Washington, D.C.
2020 Evoking the Senses, Transformer, Washington, D.C.
Flat file, Transformer, Washington, D.C.
Flat file 2021, Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
(SOLO, cancelled due to COVID-19) IA&A Hillyer, Washington, D.C.
September 2020, NoMa Lobby Project, Washington, D.C.
Emerging Artists 2020, Target Gallery, , Alexandria, VA
NextGen 7.0, VisArts Center, Rockville, MD
Bond/Bound, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Rising, IA&A Hillyer, Washington, D.C.
Home, Strathmore, Washington, D.C.
2019 Night Garden, YNGSPC, Virtual
Enter: Future, George Washington University Gallery 102, Washington, D.C.