Mary Reid Kelley | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

: Born in Greenville, South Carolina
: Lives and works in Saratoga Springs, New York

2009: MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2001: BA, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, Magna cum Laude

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Best Femmes Forever," Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2024: "Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Best Femmes Forever," La Ferme Du Buisson, Noisiel, France
2022: "Night Kitchen," Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH
: "Unrefined Verbiage," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
2021: "Blood Moon," The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
: "The Rape of Europa," The Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
2019: Studio Voltaire, London, UK
2018: "I Smelled A Raw Recruit: The World War Films of Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley," Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
: "We Are Ghosts," Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (Link)
: "Mary Reid Kelley," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2017: "Mary Reid Kelley," MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (Link)
: "We Are Ghosts," Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (Link)
2016: "We’re Wallowing Here In Your Disco Tent," The High Line, New York, NY
: "Screen Space: Mary Reid Kelley," Art Gallery Of Western Australia, Perth
: “The Minotaur Trilogy,” Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
: “A Marquee Piece of Sod: The WWI Films of Mary Reid Kelley,” Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
: "Mary Reid Kelley," Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (Link)
2015: "Mary Reid Kelley," Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
: "The Thong of Dionysus," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
: "Hammer Projects: Mary Reid Kelley," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2014: "Swinburne’s Pasiphae," Pilar Corrias Gallery, London UK
: "Mary Reid Kelley," Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, Austria
: "Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos," Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY; traveling to SUNY Albany, NY
2013: "Mary Reid Kelley," The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA
: "The Syphilis of Sysiphus, Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley," The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
: "Priapus Agonistes," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2011: "The Syphilis of Sisyphus," Fredericks and Freiser, New York, NY
2010: "Mary Reid Kelley," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "You Make Me Iliad, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, England
2009: "Sadie, The Saddest Sadist," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
2007: "Bring Superior Forces to Bear," Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
2006: Paper Union Augsburg College Christensen Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Groups and Spots: Contemporary Art at Baloise," Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
2019: "the rest of history," Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
: "Damn! The Defiant," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
2018: "The Classical Now," Somerset House East Wing Kings College, London, UK
: FRONT Triennial, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
: “Blind Faith: Between the visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2017: "Commercial Break," Public Art Fund, New York, NY
: Artists’ Film International 2017, ‘This Is Offal’, sponsored by Hammer Museum, LA. Multiple international locations throughout 2017, including Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
: "Life a User’s Manual," Art Encounters Contemporary Art Biennale, Timisoara and Arad, Romania
: “The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: “Gray Matters,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
: “The Humors,” MUMA, Melbourne, Australia
: “Blind Faith,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
2016: "Mixtape 2016," Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
: "Sexting," Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
: "World War I And American Art," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: “Inaugural Exhibition,” Romeo, New York, NY
: "Objects Do Things," Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (Link)
2015: "Not Really," curated by Sue Canning, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
: "Making Histories," curated by Raechell Smith and David Cateforis, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, KS
: "Classicicity: Ancient art, contemporary objects," BREESE LITTLE, London, UK
: "The Beast and the Sovereign," MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
: "By the Book," Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
: "Whos Speaking?," KLEMMS, Berlin, Germany
: "SITE 20 Years / 20 Shows," SITE, Santa Fe, NM
: "Pratfall Tramps," Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
: "Homespun," Marlborough School, Seaver Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014: "Pale Fire," The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
: "Tightened As If By Pliers," curated by Joshua Bienko and Leeza Meksin for Ortega y Gasset Projects, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
: Art Rotterdam Fair, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
: "Rose Video 03: Maria Lassnig and Mary Reid Kelley," Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, South Waltham, Massachusetts
2013: "Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from the Alumni Collections," Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2012: "Pencil Pushed," University of Tennessee: Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, Knoxville, TN
: "Buy Me Bananas," Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
: "Rear View Mirror," Space B, New York, NY
: "Weighted Words," Zabludowiz Collection, London, UK
: "Re-Generation," MACRO Testaccio, Rome, Italy
2011: "StageCraft; Brian Bress, Deville Cohen, Kate Gilmore and Mary Reid Kelley, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL
: "Doublespeak," Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
: "Texture.Txt," Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY
: "Images From a Floating World," Fredericks and Freiser, New York, NY
: "Words," Brand 10 Art Space, Fort Worth, TX
2010: "The Dissolve," SITE Santa Fe Eighth International, Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico
: Signal & Noise Media Art Festival, VIVO Media Arts Center, Vancouver, CA
: "Fast Forward 2 The Power of Motion," ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
: "Ludicrous!", Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2009: "Will Happiness Find Me?" Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2008: Interval(le)s, Journal, University of Liege Publications
2006: "Uncle Tom to Peeping Tom," Wisconsin African American Womens Center, Milwaukee, WI
2005: "Pinko Commies," Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2004: "Draw," Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

Bibliography

2026: Abrams, Amah-Rose. "Marie Antoinette finds her voice in London exhibition ‘Best Femmes Forever’," Wallpaper*, February 1
2022: Jenelle Porter, Robert Storr, Jackie Murray, Catherine Wood, and Kathy Noble. Foreword by Christina Vassallo. "Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley," Co-published by The Fabric Workshop and Museum and Gregory R. Miller & Co, New York, NY
: Wilk, Elvia. "Corpus Meets Corpse," The New York Review Of Books, New York, NY (Link)
: Larios, Pablo. "The Village People," Mousse Magazine, January
2021: Watlington, Emily. "The Fate Of Europa: Mary Reid Kelley And Patrick Kelley At The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum," Art in America, December 22 (Link)
: Breaux, JT. "Titian’s ‘Women, Myth, and Power’ at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum pits classical art versus modern morality," The Berkeley Beacon, October 7 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "Titian’s ‘Poesie’ Paintings Transformed Western Art. One U.S. Museum Is Showing Them All Together—and It Will Never Happen Again," Artnet, August 26 (Link)
: Goldstein, Caroline. "‘I Didn’t Want to Fictionalize’: Watch Mary Reid Kelley Explain How Her Eerie Videos Reanimate Forgotten Women’s History," Artnet, August 19 (Link)
: Cotter, Holland. "Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again?," The New York Times, August 12 (Link)
2019: Fullerton, Elizabeth. "’They’re our female supervillains!’ Artists mash up Ayn Rand and Gwyneth Paltrow," The Guardian, July 2 (Link)
: Watson, Denise. "MOCA’s new exhibition fills in the "The Rest of History," the stories often discarded in the telling of America’s story," The Virginian-Pilot, March 22 (Link)
: Campbell, Andy. "Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley," Artforum, February (Link)
: Wood, Eve. "Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley," Artillery, January 2 (Link)
2018: Knight, Christopher. "Review: Harry S. Truman at the center of this wonderfully weird, strangely poignant art show," Los Angeles Times, November 30 (Link)
: Horst, Aaron. "Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley at Susanne Vielmetter," Carla, November 29 (web) (Link)
: Dunne, Aidan, "Kelleys’ bizarre creations crackle with energy of early cinema," The Irish Times (web), August 4 (Link)
: Thorne, Harry, "The Burlesque Worlds of Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley," frieze, April 5 (Link)
: Cromwell, Tim, “From Hirst’s Medusa to Quinn’s marble bust: new London show explores how classical art inspires contemporary artists,” The Art Newspaper, March 6 (Link)
: Culpan, Daniel, "Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley at Tate Liverpool," Artforum, January (Link)
2017: Searle, Adrian, “Drag acts and drunken sailors – Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We Are Ghosts review,” The Guardian (web), November 21 (Link)
: Sharp, Sarah Rose, “Artists Embrace the Grayscale,” Hyperallergic (web), July 20 (Link)
: Wallace, David, “Walter Benjamin’s Unfinished Magnum Opus, Revisited through Contemporary Art,” The New Yorker (web), May 9 (Link)
: Pinto, Ana Teixeira, “Review: Mary Reid Kelley at Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany,” frieze (web), January 14 (Link)
2016: Jeppesen, Travis, “Critics’ Pick: Mary Reid Kelley at Arratia Beer,” Artforum (web), April 1 (Link)
: Teixeria Pinto, Ana, “Mary Reid Kelley’s ‘The Minotaur Trilogy’,” art agenda (web), April 11 (Link)
: Scher, Robin, “Sara Cwynar and Mary Reid Kelley Named Winners of the Baloise Art Prize,’ ArtNews (web), June 14 (Link)
: Gleisner, Jacquelyn, “MacArthur Fellow Mary Reid Kelley on Dismantling Sexual Taboos with Humor,” Hyperallergic (web), October 26, (Link)
: Lamon, Madeleine, “Meet the Penn Design critic who snagged a MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’,” The Daily Pennsylvanian (web), October 27
: “Vincent Fecteau, Kellie Jones, Mary Reid Kelley, Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine, and Joyce J. Scott Among 2016 MacArthur Fellow,” Artforum (web), September 22
: Segal, Corinne, “Video artist, MacArthur fellow Mary Reid Kelley on recovering history’s lost narratives,” PBS News Hour (web), October 2
: Chiaverina, John, “Kellie Jones, Vincent Fecteau, and Mary Reid Kelley Named MacArthur Fellows,” ArtNews (web), September 22 (Link)
: Frank, Priscilla, “Video Artist Mary Reid Kelley on Why the Urge to Apply Makeup is Fundamentally Human,” The Huffington Post (web), September 23 (Link)
2015: Heartney, Eleanor, Sex, Mayhem, and Ghosts of the Unconscious, ArtNews, January
: Jadrnak, Jackie, Site Sante Fe celebrates 20th Anniversary, Albuquerque Journal, March 6
: Lampe, Lilly, The Work of Four Seriously Funny Women Artists, Hyperallergic, March 26 (Link)
: Detweiler, Henry, Review: Artists fuse funy-haha, funny-odd and existential angst in ACACs Pratfall Tramps, Arts ATL, March 26
: Carver, Jon, Santa Fe: 20 Years / 20 Shows at SITE Santa Fe, art ltd, May/June
: Cahill, James, A Wandering Will: Mary reid Kelley Discusses Swinbrunes Pasiphae, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 25
: IX Moscow International Biennale, Fashion and Style in Photography 2015, Multimedia complex of Actual Arts, Moscow, Russia
: Reid Kelley, Mary, Sam Messer, BOMB Magazine, Summer
: Lord, Benjamin, Mary Reid Kelley at The Hammer, Carla, Fall
: Boucher, Brian, Mary Reid Kelleys Lush Videos Take on the Minotaur and Nicki Minaj, ArtNet News (web), October 23
: Rees, Allyson, Mary Reid Kelley Reimagines Mythology from a Womans POV, LA Confidential, May 12
2014: Applin, Jo, Reviews: Mary Reid Kelley, ArtForum, December
: Cuir, Raphael, Mary Reid Kelley, Art Press, December
: Boucher, Brian, "Guggenheim Foundation 2014 Fellows Include Mary Reid Kelley, La Toya Ruby Frazier," Art in America online, April 10 (Link)
2013: Thomson, Allese, "500 Words: Mary Reid Kelley," Artforum.com, August 14 (Link)
: Yurkevich, Vanessa, "Mary Reid Kelley Debuts at the ICA Boston," Artinfo, October 2 (Link)
: McQuaid, Cate, Images speaking of desire and fear at the ICA, The Boston Globe, August 1 (Link)
: Frank, Priscilla, Mary Reid Kelleys 3D Historical Tableaux Come To ICA Boston, The Huffington Post, July 29 (Link)
: Cheh, Carol, Review: Mary Reid Kelley: Priapus Agonistes, Pastelegram, July 26 (Link)
: Vitamin D2: New Perspective in Drawing, Phaidon Press, May
2012: Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 6, PBS Television Series and Companion Volume
: Searle, Adrian, How performance art took over, The Guardian, July 3
: McClemont, Doug, Reviews: Mary Reid Kelley, ARTNews, March
: Goings On About Town: Art, Mary Reid Kelley, The New Yorker, January
: Davis, Ben, Finding the Reason In Mary Reid Kelleys Mad Rhymes About French History, Artinfo, January 6
2011: Johnson, Ken, Mary Reid Kelley: The Syphilis of Sisyphus, New York Times, December 1
: Beckman, Ericka, Mary Reid Kelley, Sadie the Saddest Sadist, Artforum, December
: Boucher, Brian, Mary Reid Kelley, In Plain Frenglish, Art in America, November 11
2010: Robecchi, Michele, Mary Reid Kelley, Pilar Corrias-London, Flash Art, November
: the dissolve, Site Santa Fe Biennial Catalogue, curated by Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco
: Allen, Emma, Verbal Play and Venereal Disease: A Q & A with Mary Reid Kelley, ArtInfo, June 15 (Link)
: Mizota, Sharon, Modern girl, Los Angeles Times, May 21 (Link)
: Ryan, Bartholomew, Marx On My, Lenin Mary Reid Kelley, Metropolis M, April (Link)
: Kazanjian, Dodie. The Body Eccentric. Vogue, February 2010. p. 188-193.
2009: Smith, Roberta, Make Room for Video, Performance and Paint, New York Times, December 31
: Madoff, Steven Henry, Openings: Mary Reid Kelley, Art Forum, November
: Storr, Robert, So it Goes, Frieze, Issue 127, November/December
: Boucher, Brian, Mary Reid Kelley, Art in America, November 13
: Vilas, Amber, Mary Reid Kelley in New York, Art Info, September 25
2008: Pearse, Emma, Artist Mary Reid Kelley Goes to War, New York Magazine, July 14

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2016: Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel
: MacArthur Fellowship
2015: AICA Award: Best Time-Based Format, Second Place: Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos at SUNY New Paltz, Dorsky Museum
2014: Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
2013: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
2012: The Shifting Foundation Grant
2011: Production Residency at EMPAC, Renessalear Polytechnic Institute
: Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome
2009: Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT
: Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant
2008: CAA Visual Arts Fellowship
: Schoelkopf Travel Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT
: Beinecke Library Research Fellowship, Yale University New Haven, CT
: Guest Lecturer, Women and Art at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2004: Jerome Foundation Artist Residency Fellowship at Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Moose Lake, MN
2001: Art Apprenticeship, St. Olaf College Department of Art and Art History, Northfield, MN

Teaching Experience

: Senior Critic, UPenn School of Design
: Critic, Yale University School of Art

Public Collections

: Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
: Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, CA
: Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
: MUDAM, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, MA
: UBS Art Collection, New York, NY
: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK