The MassArt Graduate Programs and the 2D and 3D fine art departments are pleased to welcome Colleen Kiely as a Visiting Artist of the Fall 2026 Fine Arts Lecture Series. Please join us in the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall at 12:00pm on Wednesday, November 18. 

Colleen Kiely (b. Providence, RI) is a painter and educator based in Boston, MA. Kiely’s process-driven paintings focus on themes of time, transformation and vision. She received a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Boston. Selected group exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery (NY, NY); Anderson/Yezerski Gallery (Boston, MA); The Painting Center (NY, NY); VERY Gallery (Boston); Suffolk University Gallery (Boston, MA); and the Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center (Brattleboro, VT). Selected solo exhibitions include Cove Street Arts (Portland, ME) and the Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston, MA). Recent professional activities include a residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation (Newfoundland) and juror for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants for Creative Individuals. Previous activities include residencies at Sanskriti Kendra Foundation (New Delhi, India) and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study/Harvard University. Kiely’s work is represented in collections including Fidelity Corporation, The deCordova Museum, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and The Boston Athenaeum. She is a professor of studio art at Simmons University, Boston, and her studio is in Somerville, MA.

This event is free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image detail: Colleen Kiely, Girl with Goggles, 2025.