Kerri McGill
Lives and works in Boston MA USA
EDUCATION
1998, BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, with distinction
2010, Artist Toolbox Business for Artists, MA Arts & Business Council
2015, USA 829 Scenic Artist Union courses: Safety, Media use
2012, Certified as Aerial Lift Operator, scissor-lifts/boom-lifts
RESIDENCIES
2025/26, The Church, Rawene, Northland ,NZ
2020, Fellow, NZPS (NZ Pacific Studio), Masterton, NZ
2018, Starbreeze/Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE
2013, LPEP(Paternal Espacio Proyecto), Buenos Aires, ARG
SOLO EXHIBITS
2026, “Lightscapes & Symphonic Visions”, satellite2 Gallery, Devonpork Auckland NZ
2026, “Invocations of Movement and Bliss”, No1 Parnell Gallery, Rawene, NZ
2020, “Powerscapes” , Miracle Room, Featherston, Wairarapa, NZ
2019, “Cartographer Lost” map collage Gallery Poulet, Cambridge, MA
2019, “Hats and Horses”, Celebrating the Kentucky Derby, Vernon St Studios, MA
2019, “Flower Power” , Compass Gallery, Boston, MA
2018, “Avenida Te Quiero”, Tabernacle Gallery with soprano Jessica Cooper
2013, “Realidades Paralelas”, LPEP Gallery, Buenos Aires, ARG
2009, “Silent Days”, Diesel Gallery, Somerville MA
2008 , “Fablesques”, Trident’s Gallery, Boston, MA
2005, “Portraits from the Garden” North Shore Art Association, Danvers MA
GROUP EXHIBITS
2025, “Blueprint of Imagination”, Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA
2025, “Local Threads”, Beehive Art space
2024, “Entwined” Mosesian Center for the Arts, Entangled,
2024, Vernon Street Group Show, the Nave, MA
2021, Art by the Sea Gallery Group Show, Takapuna, NZ
2017, On the Periphery, the Edge of Sight, Uforge Gallery, Boston, MA
2014, , Inaugural Exhibition, Liz Afif Gallery, Philadelphia, PE
2012, UForge Gallery, Group exhibition, Boston MA
2010, 829 Scenic Painter’s Fine Art exhibit, Tulip Gallery, Salem, MA
2010–Present, Somerville Open Studios, Vernon Street Studios MA
2009, Arts & Business Council, Fenway Park, Boston 2009 Tulip Gallery,
2005 Art up Front with Cambridge Arts Council
1998 “In the Shadows” Artists for Humanity Gallery, Boston
AWARDS
2008 Best of the New for Floating Gallery curatorial project
2003 Massachusetts Cultural Council LCC exhibit/commentary
2001 Massachusetts Cultural Council LCC exhibit/commentary
MEDIA
2020, RNZ, Radio Interview:
Rural residency becomes home for stranded US artist | RNZ
2009 Radio NPR, US National Public Radio, interview
2008 Weekly Dig, Print Interview
LECTURES
2020, Creativity and Evolving Artwork, WAI Art group, Carterton NZ
2018, Art and Our Creative Economy, UMass Boston
2017, How Looking at Art Helps You Research, UMass Lowell
2008, Entrepreneur and Artist, Creative Thinking in the Workplace, UMass BostonWORK
CURATOR
2001–present, Floating Gallery, owner, principal organizer Detailed Exhibit C.V. provided upon request
2020, Nature's Voice in Art and Culture, Multi disciplinary response to natural elements w/Maori Historian, Ra Smith, Masterton, NZ
2017, Uforge Gallery, On the Periphery, Edge of Sight , Boston, MA
CONTRIBUTOR
2020, Public Poem Project, Masterton, NZ
2016, Float, Sensory Deprivation, Collaboration, Boston MA
2016, Tiny Tall-Ships extravaganza!, Narwhal ring-toss, Somerville MA
2012, Burning Man, Fabrication and Construction Crew, Roots Society Camp, NV
2012, Coney Island Mermaid Parade, Float paint crew
2009, Copenhagen Neuroaesthetics Conference, Poster Presentation, University of Copenhagen
2009, OPAM, Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, 17th Annual Conference
2009, SUNS, Scene Understanding Symposium, MIT, Cambridge MA
2009, VizThink, first Boston conference
2007, Creative Economy Conference, Lesley College , Boston MA
GRANTS
2004, MA Cultural Council, Photo essay, Portraits within Sprawl
2003, MA Cultural Council, Photo essay, Suburban Sprawl
ARTWORK LOANS
2014, The Greens Are Gone, film; 5 paintings
2008, Bride Wars, Disney film; 6 paintings
SCENIC WORK
2008–Present , Scenic Artist/Journeyman for film and television, Local 829 USA (Detailed Scenic Artist C.V. provided upon request)
2014 Set Design, Three Little Pigs Opera
2014, 2010 Public Murals, Faneuil Hall, Boston MA
2011, 2012 Powers Music School, Set Designer/Paint Charge
2003–2004 Artist Profile, TV show host