KEAVY HANDLEY-BYRNE

Keavy Handley-Byrne
b. Rochester, NY, United States
Lives in Brooklyn, NY; Works in the New York City metro area

keavyhandleybyrne@gmail.com | (585) 752.3970

EDUCATION
MFA, Photography, Rhode Island School of Design
with a certificate in collegiate teaching

BFA, Photography, Purchase College, SUNY

EXHIBITIONS

In Bloom, Laurence Salzmann Photography Center, Philadelphia, PA
On Motherhood, Frame/Sequence x Flow Space Gallery, New York, NY (upcoming)
Between the Lines, Flow Space Gallery, New York, NY (upcoming)
She, Archivist, JKC Gallery, Trenton, NJ

Ghost Stories, Lenscratch
Photography Is ____., Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase, NY
Photography Is Us, Photography Is... Festival, Purchase, NY
Saints Preserve Us!, The Yards, Rochester, NY
20/20 Photo Festival, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
Members Exhibition, TILT Institute, Philadelphia, PA
Unruly Edges, Foxtrot Farm & Flowers, Stanfordville, NY
New Realities, Steinberg Gallery at Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Picturing Plurality, Full Circle Fine Art, Baltimore, MD
We Are Multitudes, PhotoReview
Together We Will..., ArtsGowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Breaking More Boundaries, Culture Lab LIC at Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Homecoming, RMCAD Rotunda Gallery, Lakewood, CO

NewFlesh, The Neon Heater Art Gallery, Findlay, OH
NewFlesh, Landmark Arts at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Faculty Exhibition, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Four Degrees: Eco-Anxiety & Climate Change, Strange Fire/Humble Arts (curator)
PRIDE, Culture Lab LIC at Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Emergence, Beacon Artist Union, Beacon, NY
Untitled, Darkside Collective
Late//Refusals, Oranbeg Press
A Show Of Hands, Don’t Take Pictures Magazine

RISD Graduate Exhibition, RISD Museum | Providence, RI
When I See The Left Ear I Think He Had Heard Me, ClampArt, New York, NY
Moonsoaked, Cumulus Photo
Distinction, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

Black: color | context | meaning, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
Photography Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
SPE Northeast Exhibition, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI
I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
@ ME, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY * 
Residency Exhibition, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Twist & Twine, ChaShaMa/Paradice Palase, Long Island City, NY
Place Setting, The Yards Collective, Rochester, NY

Survey: Photography, The Waterman Gallery, Providence, RI
Empathy, UNC Pembroke A.D. Gallery, Pembroke, NC
SPECTRUM, MCLA Gallery, North Adams, MA
Survived Arrival, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI

PUBLICATIONS
On Motherhood, Frame/Sequence, 2025
Good Impactful Photography, Float Magazine/Humble Arts Foundation, 2025
Paper Lighthouse, Saint Agnes Press, 2023
Markers: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies, Vol XXXVIII, 2023
JRNL12, Fotofilmic, 2022
Hazey, Fifth Wheel Press, 2021
Soft Lightning Vol. 2: Connection, Soft Lightning Studio, 2020
Issue #1, Goldenrod Editions, 2020
Moonsoaked, Fifth Wheel Press, 2020
ContinuED, School of Visual Arts, 2020
Small Magics, self-published artist book, 2018

AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, HONORS
Teaching Artist Training Institute, Marquis Studios, 2021
Mobius Photo Awards: Landscape, Honorable Mention 2021
13th Annual Pollux Awards, Honorable Mention, 2019
Photography & Video Residency, School of Visual Arts, 2019
T.C. Colley Scholarship Award for Excellence in Photography, 2019
Graduate Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, 2018

TALKS & PANELS 
Panelist, She, Archivist, JKC Gallery / Real Photo Show, 2026
Guest Lecturer, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA 2025
Panelist, Flashpoint!: Protest Photography in Print, CPW, Woodstock, NY, 2025
Guest Lecturer, Wittenberg University, Wittenberg, OH, 2023
Presenting Artist, FotoFika, 2021
Guest Lecturer, Simmons University, Boston, MA 2021
Guest Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Picturing Sex, 2021
Guest Critic, Endicott College, 2020
Guest Lecturer, University of Arkansas, 2020
Presenting Artist, SPE Northeast Chapter Conference, 2020
Guest Lecturer, Study Hall Gallery, PrattMWP, 2020
Moderator, Strange Fire Collective 5th Anniversary Talk, 2020
Guest Lecturer, SUNY Purchase, 2020
Panelist, Keeper of the Hearth book launch, 2020
Guest Lecturer, MFA Boston, How We See: Photobooks by Women, 2019

COLLECTIONS
Works held in private collections across the United States and Canada. 

TEACHING PORTFOLIO