kiana thayer
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SCHOOL
2026
Cranbrook Academy of Art
2D MFA Candidate
2020
Maine College of Art & Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design with Honors
WORK
2023
Adjunct Faculty in Graphic Design
Bookbinding & alternative print process
Maine College of Art & Design
2022—2024
Graphic Designer, full time
Maine College of Art & Design
2021—2023
Risograph Instructor
Risograph poster and zine-making workshops
Maine College of Art & Design
PUBLICATIONS
2024
FULL TIME JOB
Collaboration with Poet, Michaela Bean—Self-published
2023
i can do it too.
Collection of trucks and truck performance—Self-published
Fruits & Nuts
Archive of life—Self-Published
The Last Season On Earth
Exhibition Catalog
Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine
Got Blow?
Archive of Y2K Clapback T-Shirts —Self-published
2022
Working Waterfronts
The First Coast—The Island Institute, Camden, Maine
Can I Touch it?
Archive of 1970’s Porn Staches —Self-published
Poetics of Process
Exhibition Catalog—Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine
2015—2017
WMEB Art & Music
Annual community arts magazine
Archived, Raymond H. Fogler Library
RESIDENCIES
2023
Design Inquiry—Around Work
Vinalhaven, ME
2022
Design Inquiry—Bewilder
High Meadow & Frank Llyod Wright’s Falling Water, PA
SOLO SHOWS
2023
Rolling Coal
82 PARRIS Gallery—Portland, ME
SELECT GROUP SHOWS
2023
House Warming
82 PARRIS—Portland, ME
ARTPM
BOUY Gallery—Kittery, ME
The Last Spin
New Systems Exhibition—Portland, Maine
2020
SPLAY
Able Baker Contemporary—Portland, ME
[ON] Now
Center for Maine Contemporary Art—Rockland, ME
Send Nudes
Moisturizer Gallery—Gainsfield, FL
Art of Protest
Engine Gallery—Biddeford, ME
ARTIST TALKS
2023
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Luce Spirits—Rockland, ME
2020
The Happening Series
Virtual