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Education

• Wichita State University,  MFA in Studio Art, Photo Media, 2017
• Wichita State University, BFA in Studio Art with emphasis in photography, 2011-2014
• Hallmark Institute of Photography, certificate in portrait/commercial photography, 2005-2006
• Pratt Community College, Associate of Arts in Communication, 2003-2005

Work Experience

• McPherson College, Assistant Professor of Photography, 2019-Present
• Wichita State University, Adjunct Instructor of Record, 2014-2019
• Friends University, Adjunct Instructor, 2018-2019
• Butler Community College, Adjunct Instructor, 2017-2019
• Images by Kelsy Gossett, Owner, 2004-Present
• Ulrich Museum of Art, Photographer, 2014-2016
• Pleasant Valley Middle School, Paraeducator, 2010-2012
• Portrait Innovations, Photographer/Associate, 2006-2007
• Beavertale Photo, Editor/Photographer, 2002-2005

Solo Exhibitions

• Relations, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH, November 2017
• For your Viewing Pleasure, Diver Studio, Wichita, KS, April 2017
• Woman, Anne Kittrell Art Gallery, University of Arkansas, April 2017
• Woman, CityArts, Wichita, KS, August 2016
• Wake Up, Wilson K. Cadman Art Gallery, Wichita, KS, August 2015
• Wake Up, Interfaith Ministries Art Gallery, Wichita, KS, June 2015
• Be with Me, McKnight Atrium Space, Wichita, KS, March 2015
• Masked, Light and Sound Gallery, Wichita, KS, September 2012
• Kelsy Gossett, Delmar Riney Art Gallery, Pratt, KS, 2006

Group Exhibitions

2019

• Teachable Moments: The XXII Faculty Biennial, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
• Explicit Content, Straw House Initiative, Wichita, KS
• Human Representation, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
• The New Cool, Mark Arts, Wichita, KS
• Queer Chicago, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL
• The Art of Collecting, HUE Gallery, Wichita, KS
• 2019 Faculty Biennial, E.B. White Gallery, Butler Community College, El Dorado, KS
• Swipe Right, Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, KS
• Family Reunion, ROY G BIV, Columbus, OH
• Student and Faculty Showcase, Riney Fine Arts Gallery, Friends University, Wichita, KS
• Safe Haven, Cadman Art Gallery, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

2018

• All is Fair in Art and Politics, E.B. White Gallery, Butler Community College, El Dorado, KS
• Faculty Fanfare, Sebits Fine Arts Center, Friends University, Wichita, KS
• Femmetasia, Non Plus Ultra, Los Angeles, CA
• Call and Response: Art as Resistance, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
• I Am Me and We Are Free, HUE Gallery, Wichita, KS

2017

• Los Angeles Underground Film Forum, VIDIOTS, Santa Monica, CA
• This is Now: Video Series, Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
• TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival, Seattle, WA
• Nonplussed Fest Film Festival, Non Plus Ultra, Los Angeles, CA
• Defy Film Festival, Studio 615, Nashville, TN
• Forks & Bibs, CityArts, Wichita, KS
• Wichita State of Mind, HUE Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Momentum Ada 2017, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Hallie Brown Fine Arts Center, East Central University, Ada, OK
• Exposure Competition, Wilson K. Cadman Art Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Art as Resistance, Syntax Physic Opera (hosted by Strange Fire Collective, Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado Photographic Arts Center and Month of Photography Denver), Denver, CO
• 2017 Photographic Arts National Exhibition, Mark Arts, Wichita, KS
• Women’s Work, Wilson K. Cadman Art Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Society for Photographic Education 2017 Media Festival, Hilton Orlando, Orlando, FL
• Nasty Women, The Knockdown Center, New York City, NY

2016

• Los Angeles CineFest, Finalist, Promenade Playhouse, Santa Monica, CA
• Short to the Point Film Festival, Municipiul Bucuresti, Bucuresti, Romania
• Elements Juried Exhibition, Wilson K. Cadman Art Gallery, Wichita, KS (Best of Show)
• PULSE PLAY 2016, Gateway Project Space, Newark, NJ
• Annual Arts Council Juried Show, City Arts, Wichita, KS
• Moving Pictures Festival, Nieuwmoer Dorp 20, Kalmthout, Belgium
• Currently, Project Space Gallery, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
• Tethered with Green, E.B. White Gallery, Butler Community College, El Dorado, KS
• WIPE Amateur Film Festival, Yorckstraße, Berlin, Germany
• Body, Figure, Self: It Will Live As Long As We Do, Century II, Wichita, KS
• I Witness: Activist Art and Social Movement Politics Juried Exhibition, Bradley University Galleries, Peoria, IL
• Nonplussed Fest Film Festival, Non Plus Ultra, Los Angeles, CA
• Femmes’ Video Art Festival 2, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
• Bad Film Fest, Cloud City, NewYork, NY
• Jacket Video Art Showcase, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL
• Exposure Competition, Wilson K. Cadman Art Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Contemporaneously, HUE Gallery, Wichita, KS
• USB-Shuffle-Show (four), Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
• Moments, ph21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
• Aperture, Reverie, Wichita, KS
• Home, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
• Interdependent, HUE Gallery, Wichita, KS

2015

• Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Annual Arts Council Juried Show, City Arts, Wichita, KS
• 13: Graduate of Studio Arts Exhibition, Shift Space, Wichita, KS
• Photographs from Turkey, Wilson K. Cadman Art Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Expo (MFA Graduate Exhibition), Project Space Gallery, Wichita, KS
• First Year Exhibition, Project Space Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Exposure Competition, Wilson K. Cadman Art Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Annual Juried Exhibition, The Kinsey Institute, Bloomberg, IN
• Aperture Group Exhibition, Meade’s Corner, Wichita, KS
• Travels in Cuba, Looking Glass, Wichita, KS
• Aperture Group Exhibition, Meade’s Corner, Wichita, KS
• Aperture Group Exhibition, City Arts, Wichita, KS
• Travels in Cuba, Steckline Gallery, Wichita, KS

2014

• Alternation, Project Space Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Travels in Cuba, Fidelity Bank, Wichita, KS
• Exposure Competition, Wilson K. Cadman Art Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Cuba Photography Exhibition, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
• Photography in Cuba, Fidelity Bank, Wichita, KS
• Scholarship Showcase, Clayton Staples Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Elements Juried Art Exhibition, Shiftspace Gallery, Wichita, KS

2013

• Exposure Competition, Wilson K. Cadman Art Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Elements Juried Art Exhibition, Shiftspace Gallery, Wichita, KS

2012

• Exposure Competition, Wilson K. Cadman Art Gallery, Wichita, KS

2006

• Photography Exhibition, Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Turners Falls, MA