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Carolyn Gennari is an interdisciplinary artist working across video, installation, performance, and experimental photographic practices. Her recent projects engage electrophotography and copy art to examine how memory is reproduced, altered, and circulated. Drawing from archival research and technologies of reproduction, she explores how copying functions as both erasure and transformation, complicating the authority of a single record.

Gennari has exhibited at the RISD Museum, Morbid Anatomy Museum, EL Balcón, and Hartnett Gallery. Her residencies include MASS MoCA, Elsewhere Museum, A–Z West, and Museum für Fotokopie. She has received support from the Getty Research Institute and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She holds an MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design and is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Rochester.

Courses Offered (subject to change)

• SART 154:  Experimental Photocopy Art & Fanzines (copy machine as camera; image-based systems and reproduction technologies)
• SART 190:  Introduction to Studio Practice

Selected Exhibitions

• Sweet Treats and Other Delights, Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2025
• Paper Jam: The Photocopier as a Creative Tool, Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2025
• Glaukopis, installation, Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2021
• Rabbit, rabbit, multimedia installation, Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2021
• The Reading Railroad: A Phantom Ride, Soon/ Now/ Gone public performance series for the Philadelphia Site/Sound: Rail Park Festival, Friends of the Rail Park, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and American Composers, Philadelphia, PA, 2019
• The Object of This Exercise, screening, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC, 2019
• Searching For What Isn’t There, solo exhibition, Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, 2017
• Searching For What Isn’t There, screenplay, Smithsonian Libraries, Washington DC, 2016

Selected Artist Residencies

• Visual Studies Workshop Residency, forthcoming, Rochester, NY, 2026
• Museum für Fotokopie, artist in residence, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, 2025
• Adirondack Climate Project artist Residency, 2024
• Fellow, Transparent Assignment Design Fellows Program, 2024
• University of Rochester, Department of Art & Art History, artist in residence, 2023-Present
• Studios at MASS MoCA, artist residency, MASS MoCA North Adams, MA, 2021
• Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, open residency, Deer Isle, ME, 2021
• Elsewhere Museum, artist in residence, Greensboro, NC, 2019
• Experimental Living Cabins, open residency, Andrea Zittel A-Z West, Wonder Valley, CA, 2017
• Andrea Zittel’s Institute of Investigative Living, MFA residency, Joshua Tree, CA, 2016

Selected Grants and Awards

• Getty Research Institute Library Grant recipient, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2025
• Postgraduate Development Grant, Stamps School of Art & Design at The University of Michigan, 2021
• Studios MASS MoCA North Adams, MA, 2021
• Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, open residency fully funded grant, Deer Isle, ME, 2021
• University of Michigan, Museum Studies Grant, Elsewhere Museum Residency, Greensboro, NC, 2020
• Anderson Ranch Arts Center Presidential Scholarship, Snowmass Village, CO, 2020
• Center For Academic Engagement (CEAL) Course Competition, Engaging the Archive, self-designed Course, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2018
• Antonio Cirino Memorial Fund Award, Rhode Island Foundation, Providence, RI, 2018
• Jean Paul Slusser Award, best in show, MFA Thesis Exhibition, juried by Mark Dion and Hannah Whitaker, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2017