About
ABOUT
Chalet Comellas’ new media works blend gestural abstraction with digital applications, reflecting philosophical ideas on collective consciousness, mediation, and “human-in-the-loop” systems. Her interdisciplinary works are often exhibited as installations and evoke conversations about our current entanglement with algorithms, online platforms, and the ever-growing presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives.
Comellas lives and works in Nashville, TN and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Florida State University and a BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in painting from the University of Tampa. Her work has been exhibited and screened in museums, academic institutions, and galleries including, tANJA gRUNERT Gallery, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, and LABspace Gallery in NY, Modfellows and Zeitgeist in Nashville, TN, Terrain Exhibitions in IL, Doral Museum of Art for the Miami New Media Festival, Miami, FL, InLight Richmond in VA, and the ACA in Lafayette, LA for P.S. Satellites: A Project of Prospect 4 New Orleans. As a collaborating artist, Comellas has shown at Flashpoint Gallery, in Washington D.C., Grace Exhibition Space, both in Brooklyn, NY and in Miami, FL for Fountain Art Fair.
Comellas has a research-based art practice and has taught as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Florida State University and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Foundations in the Department of Art + Design at Austin Peay State University. In addition to studio and teaching, she has organized several video art screening events and has curated solo and group exhibitions for Unrequited Leisure Gallery and AIR_space Projects.
Professional awards and residencies include Visiting Artist-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, Arts Letters and Numbers in Upstate NY, Estudio Chapulín in Mexico City, and in 2025, was selected as a Digital Pavilion Curator for The Wrong Biennale. Comellas' artwork is in public and private collections including, Soho House Nashville, TN; Vanderbilt University Library, TN; Colorado College Special Collections Library, CO; and Tampa General Hospital, FL. Her work has been reviewed or featured in Art Spiel, BURNAWAY, Number Inc. Magazine, The Program, Art in America’s Art & Tech Newsletter, Chronogram, Nashville Scene, Style Weekly, The Tennessean, Orlando Sentinel, and the Tampa Bay Times.
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EDUCATION
2012 MFA, Interdisciplinary Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2001 BFA, Studio Arts, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
RESIDENCIES / AWARDS / GRANTS / HONORS
2024 Resident Artist, Arts Letters and Numbers, NY
2022 Artist Residency Juror, Beneath the Surface Residency, New Brunswick, CA
2020 Visiting Artist-In-Residence, Vanderbilt University, TN
2018 ARTFIELDS, Top Prize, Digital Media Category, juror Eleanor Heartney, SC
2018 Faculty in Residence, Facility for Arts Research at Florida State University, FL
2017 Invited Juror, Tallahassee International, Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University, FL
2013 Artist in Residence, Nan Boynton Artist in Residency Program, 621 Gallery, FL
2013 Invited Speaker, TEDx FSU, Digital Direction, Florida State University, FL
2009 Graduate Research Fellowship, Florida State University, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Nashville International Airport, BNA Arts at the Airport Program, AI love songs for chatbots, Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN
2023 Zeitgeist, Can I see like a planet? and other questions for chatbots, Nashville, TN
2023 Space 204, Shaman in the Loop, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2021 Terminal Gallery, Moving in Spatial Limbo, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
2017 621 Gallery, Assembly Is Required, Tallahassee, FL
2016 Wolpert Gallery, Working Memory, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
*forthcoming, Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN
2025
tANJA gRUNERT Gallery, Not in Usual Dimensions, experimental film screening, Hudson, NY
Modfellows, Into the Field, two-person show, Nashville, TN
Space 204, Comma: Infinity in a Box, in collaboration with Judy Rushin-Knopf & Carolyn Henne, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Elephant Gallery, The Unbannable Library, in collaboration with Paul Collins & Sara Lee Burd, Nashville, TN
2024
Repeaterroom, YOLA+, Belgrade, Serbia
Co-Prosperity, In Concert with Jen de los Reyes, Chicago, IL
Joyce Goldstein Gallery, HORIZON LINE, Chatham, NY
2023
Stove Works, Éramos Semillas / We Were Seeds, Chattanooga, TN
2022
Joseph Gross Gallery, Delivery Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
KSU Gallery, Power of Print: Tracked Prints // Layered Sounds, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Elephant Gallery, The Leftovers, Nashville, TN
CëGallery, The Sacral Project, Nashville, TN
OZ Arts Nashville, Kindling Arts Festival + Defy Film Festival: Heroic Couplets, Nashville, TN
Ferman Center for the Arts, Subsequent Layers, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
2021
Terrain Exhibitions, Terrain Biennial 2021, K.I.T., Oak Park, IL
Atrium Video Gallery, Dancing at Intersections, Bloomsburg, PA
Centro Cultural UCAB, Miami New Media Festival, Caracas, Venezuela
Cielito Tinto, Miami New Media Festival, San Cristóbal, Venezuela
Center for Fine the Arts, Miami New Media Festival, Ateneo, de Maracaibo, Venezuela
Philadelphia Media Arts Encounter, Nomadic Street Projections, Philadelphia, PA
2020
Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Miami New Media Festival, Miami, FL
Laundromat Art Gallery, Miami New Media Festival, Miami, FL
Museo Archaelogico di Olbia, Miami New Media Festival, Cerdeña, Italy
Cas di Cultura, Miami New Media Festival, Oranjestad, Aruba
airWG, Miami New Media Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The New Gallery, APSU Faculty Triennial, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
LAB space, Space Case: Making a case for artist-run spaces, Hillsdale, NY
Goodyear Arts, Subcendent and so on, Charlotte, NC
2019
Albany Museum of Art, Educators as Artists, Albany, GA
Museum of Fine Arts, FSU Faculty Exhibition, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2018
Haas Gallery, Comma Room, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
Facility for Arts Research, Moving Bodies - Moving Images, Tallahassee, FL
Happy Motoring, Comma box Vol. 2, Fragments, Tallahassee, FL
Museum of Fine Arts, FSU Faculty Exhibition, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2017
ArtFields, Movement in Place, Lake City, SC
1708 Gallery, InLight Richmond 2017, Juror, Nat Trotman, Richmond, VA
Acadiana Center for the Arts, P.S. Satellites: A Project of Prospect New Orleans: ART I-10, Lafayette, LA
Toronto Art Book Fair, The Common Table, Toronto, Canada
Murmur Media, Atlanta Zine Fest, Atlanta, GA
Shoebox Projects, HUDDLE, Los Angeles, CA
Tempus Projects, Little Triggers, Tampa, FL
The Press at Colorado College, Amply & Multiply, Colorado Springs, CO
Museum of Fine Arts, FSU Faculty Exhibition, Tallahassee, FL
2016
1708 Gallery, InLight Richmond 2016, Juror, Ellina Kevorkian, Richmond, VA
Eyedrum, EMBODY EMBED INVOKE, Atlanta, GA
The Studio@620, BRAVA, St. Petersburg, FL
Museum of Fine Arts, FSU Faculty Exhibition, Tallahassee, FL
2015
Nesbitt Gallery, Systematic Attempts in Lyrical Arrangements, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, OK
Museum of Fine Arts, FSU Faculty Exhibition, Tallahassee, FL
PORTSPACE, Assembly Is Required: WISH, Gulfport, FL
2014
Print St. Pete Studios, Assembly Is Required: ONWARD, Print St. Pete Studios, Gulfport, FL
1708 Gallery, InLight Richmond 2014, Juror, Denise Markonish, Richmond, VA
Flash Point Gallery, Variance / Invariance, with Judy Rushin and Christina Poindexter, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Fine Art, Making Now, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL
2013
Grace Exhibition Space, Continuous Action, a collaborative exhibition with Analog Analogue, Brooklyn, NY
621Gallery, Mudlark Report: Artist in Residence Exhibition, with Analog Analogue, Tallahassee, FL
2012
Grace Exhibition Space, INVASIONS OF THE SURREAL, CONTEMPORARY VISUAL PERFORMANCE, Fountain Art Fair, Miami, FL
621 Gallery, Knock on Wood, with Analog Analogue, Tallahassee, FL
Working Method Contemporary, FOCUS GROUP, with Analog Analogue, Tallahassee, FL
TEACHING
Austin Peay State University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2023 - 2024
Middle Tennessee State University, Adjunct Professor, 2020 - 2021
Vanderbilt University, Department of Art, Visiting Artist in Residence, Spring 2020
Department of Art, Florida State University, Assistant Professor, Specialized Teaching & Online Programs Coordinator, 2015-2019
Department of Art, Florida State University, Adjunct Professor, 2012-2015
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE