Isaac McKenna is a photographer, sculptor, and artist based in Seattle, WA. They graduated with honors in Visual Art from Brown University. Isaac’s work spans a variety of photographic and sculptural mediums, and centers around questions of temporality, image-subject collapse, and the perspective of natural environments.

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Exhibitions

2026

Clavo Ocho — Group @ Fair, 2026
After/Time Gallery, Mexico City, MX

Open Call — Group, 2026
Solas Gallery, Seattle, WA

The Open — Group, 2026
Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC

2025

McKenna/Timmermeister — Duo
Solas Gallery, Seattle, WA

After/Image 003 — Group show
After/Time Collective Gallery, Portland, OR

Shutter and Light — Group show
Jet City Labs, Seattle, WA

Invert Negative — Group show
Jet City Labs, Seattle, WA

2024

Epigraph — Solo thesis show 
List Art Center, Brown University

Rubrica — Group show 
RISD Museum Gelman Gallery

Brown Arts Institute— Juried group show
Granoff Center

2023

Your Honor… — Group Show 
List Art Center, Brown University

Publications

“Massive, Violent, Beautiful Change: A Conversation with Isaac McKenna.” Charlie Usadi, Brown Art Review, 13 May 2024, www.brownartreview.org/post/massive-violent-beautiful-change-a-conversation-with-isaac-mckenna.

“In Memoriam.” Isaac McKenna, The College Hill Independent, 1 December 2023, https://theindy.org/article/3143