Makenzie Goodman
b. 1986, Northwestern PA. Lives between western North Carolina and far west Texas.
Contact:
makenziegoodman@gmail.com
Instagram: @makenzelyn
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2025 Infinite Gauge, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN
2024 Encounters, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA
2021 The First Guide, solo exhibition with Adam Stacey, Plyspace, Muncie, IN
2019 Encounters, Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Joshua Tree, CA
2015 Second Nature, Gallery 27, Santa Barbara, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Unbound 14!, Candela Gallery. Richmond, VA
2025 Fold, Stop Gap Projects. Columbia, MO
2024- Interventions, Art Department Faculty Biennial, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC
2024- How We Care, group exhibition, Watauga Arts Council, Boone, NC :: curated by Shauna Caldwell
2022- Holding On- Fair Market, group exhibition, Companion, Indianapolis, IN
2022- lnnagural Show, group exhibition, Problem Gallery, Marfa, TX
2020- We Are Here/Here We Are, group exhibition, Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, CA
2018- Still Figuring Out a Title: A Show on Failure, Private Residence, Los Angeles, CA :: curated by David del Francia
2018- Fool’s Gold, Noysky Project, Los Angeles, CA :: curated by Sean Noyce
2018- More is Different, Elevator Mondays, Los Angeles, CA :: curated by Gait.LA
2018- U.S., Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA :: curated by Mike McLain
2017- L’optique Féminine, Four Friend Gallery, Thousand Oaks :: curated by Christopher Broughton
2017- FotoFilmic 17 Spring Shortlist Exhibition, Vanouver, BC, Canada :: juried selection by Larry Fink
2016- ArtBasil, Allmost Studio & Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016- Unacquainted Territory, Telegraph Brewery, Santa Barbara, CA :: curated by Christopher Martinez
2016- Home, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2015- Color Photography: A Picture Show, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2014- The Third Effect, Gallery 27, Santa Barbara, CA
2013- Communication and Medium, Gallery 27, Santa Barbara, CA
Selected Projects & Press
2025 Lenscratch, “Dodeca Meters: Ebti, Jamie Robertson, and Makenzie Goodman”, February 5th
2024- Lenscratch: Daily Features, Makenzie Goodman: Encounters. July 13
2024- Dodeca Meters: Encounters, National Monument Press, Oakland, CA
2021- Bookshirts, Produced by A History of Frogs, Other Places Art Fair, Los Angeles
2020- Hyperallergic, An Exhibition Across Los Angeles Takes on New Meanings in Times of Protest , Online
2019- Borderlands Trilogy, Limited ed. 3-part zine and porcelain railroad spike set, self-published
2018- Art and Cake, All That Glitters: Fool’s Gold at Noysky Projects, Online
2018- Full Blede, Issue 5: The Artifact
2018- Ain’t- Bad, Online Feature, Online
2016- A Far Empty Place, Self-published 25-edition photo book.
2015- Strant Magazine, A Brief Interview with Makenzie Goodman, Online
2015- Strant Magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 2, Faith, Spring 2015
2014- Your Daily Photograph, Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Residencies & Awards
2026 Byrdcliffe Summer Communal Residency & Byrdcliffe Donor Grant (accepted summer 2025, deferred to 2026)
2025 Mattress Factory, State of the Sky: Summer School, Pittsburgh, PA
2024 North Carolina Artist Support Grant
2024 Stove Works Artist Residency, Chattanooga, TN
2023 University Research Council Grant, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
2021 Plyspace Residency, Resident Fellowship, Muncie, IN
2019 Joshua Tree Highlands 6-week Artist Residency, Joshua Tree, CA
Artist Lectures
2025 Artist Lecture, Working Man’s Institute, New Harmony, IN
2024 Encounters in the Desert Artist Lecture, UFO Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
2024 Artist Lecture, Caldwell Community College, Boone, NC
2022 The First Guide Artist Lecture, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Teaching
2023- Present Appalachian State University, Assistant Professor of Art, Boone, NC
2022-2023 Ball State University, Assistant Professor of Art, Muncie, IN