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Elena Harvey Collins
Instructor + Curator
Fine, Performing and Communication Arts Division
Fine Art
Education
- Arts Foundation Diploma: University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Art
- BA: Kingston University, London
- MFA: Columbus College of Art and Design
Courses taught at Fresno City College:
- Art-49: Exhibition and Gallery Practices
- Art-70: Modern and Contemporary Art
- Art-2: Introduction to Visual Art
About:
Elena Harvey Collins is a British curator and artist, working with themes of landscape and place. Since 2017 she has directed the programming at Fresno City College’s Art Space Gallery where she has organized numerous solo projects and collaborations between visiting artists and students. Previously she held curatorial roles at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.
Recognitions, Awards & Achievements:
Recent projects include an immersive restaging of Sofía Córdova’s Underwater Moonlight (days of blood + milk (2023); Shana Moulton: Whispering Pines (2020); Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Human for Scale, and Liz Roberts: Going Public (2019). Group exhibitions and institutional collaborations include Deep Maps (2024) for which she was awarded a California Humanities for All Project Grant; Constellating Care Networks (2021), a community mapping project to accompany CSU-Fresno’s presentation of Nobody Promised you Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall; and the NEA Big Read funded exhibition All Words Have Roots Here (2021) with American Indian Studies at CSU-Fresno and the FCC & Fresno County Libraries.
