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Ella Hepner

  • Born Brooklyn, NY

Education

  • 2018: Carnegie Mellon University B.H.A. (Bachelor of Humanities and Arts) Global Studies, Hispanic Studies, and Painting

  • 2016 Fall: Universidad de La Habana

  • 2012, 2013 Summer: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Pre-College Program

Awards/Grants

  • 2018 Phi Sigma Iota- Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Early Initiate- Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2017 Student Undergraduate Research Grant- Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund- Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2017 BXA Small Grant- Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2015, 2016, 2017 Dean's List- Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2012, 2013 Early College Program Merit Scholarship- School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibitions/Publications

  • 2025 Touching Spells, Established Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2024 Cover Art for Community Listening Journal

  • 2024 Twelve by Twelve (Group Show), Established Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2024 Contemporary Realism (Group Show), Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2024 Small Works Show (Group Show), 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

  • 2024 The Other Art Fair, Zero Space, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2024 Diaspora (Group Show), Perth Amboy Center for the Arts, Perth Amboy, NJ

  • 2023 THE LOUDNESS OF SILENCE (Group Show), Cicada Curatorial, Online Gallery

  • 2023 The Other Art Fair, Zero Space, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2023 Nocturne (Group Show), 345 Gallery, Manhattan, NY

  • 2022 “Six Artists I Discovered at Gowanus Open Studios”, Hyperallergic Magazine 

  • 2022 New Contemporaries (Group Show), Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2022 Artist of the Month, Camelback Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

  • 2022 Polysemy Gala: Dual Meanings In Contemporary Art (Group Show), Culturally Arts Collective, Austin, TX

  • 2022 Neighbors (Group Show), Brooklyn Neighborhood Arts, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2020 The Feminine Agenda (Group Show), Women’s Work Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

  • 2020 Ritual, Art Obscura, Las Cruces, NM

  • 2019 Print Show, Unsettled Gallery, Las Cruces, NM

  • 2019 In Between Trips to the Bathroom, Late Space, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 2018 Cover Art for Community Literacy Journal, Issue 13.1, Fall: Special Issue on Community Listening

  • 2018 Dot Gov: CMU Senior Group Show, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 2018 The line goes on and on, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 2017 90: Impressions of Cuba, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA