Born 1941

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

1968-1970

St Martin's School of Art, London, Postgraduate Certificate in Painting

1963-1965

Pius XII Institute, Florence, Italy, MA, Studio Art and Art History

1959-1963

College of Saint Teresa, Winona, Minnesota, BA, Art Major, Music Minor

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2022

"Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future," Curated by Alby Miner, Maria & Alberto De La Cruz Art Gallery, Washington D.C.

"Mary Kelly: Interim Pt I: Corpus," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2018

"Mary Kelly: Face-to-Face," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK (Link)

"Nucleus: Mary Kelly's 'Extase' and the birth of a women's art collection," New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, UK (Link)

2017

"The Practical Past," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY (Link)

2016

"Nightcleaners, Berwick Street Collective (Marc Karlin, Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan)," Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown

"Mary Kelly: Early Work, 1973-76," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

"CIRCA TRILOGY," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

“Women and Work: A Document On the Division of Labor in Industry, 1975,” Switch House Gallery, Tate Modern, London, UK

2014

"On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK

2012

"Mary Kelly," Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles, CA

"Mary Kelly," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

2011

"Mary Kelly: Projects, 1973-2010," The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, curated by Maria Balshaw, Dominique Heyse-Moore, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

2010

"Mary Kelly: Four Works in Dialogue," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Cecilia Widenheim

2008

"Mary Kelly: Words are Things," Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Milada Slizinska

2007

"Circa 1968," The University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, curated by Juli Carson

2006

"The Ballad of Kastriot Rekhepi," ESPACIO AV, Consejeria de Educacin y cultura, Regin de Murcia, curated by Isabel Tejeda

"Love Songs," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2005

"Love Songs," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

2004

Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City Installation, live performance and interactive archive, curated by Trisha Ziff

2003

“The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi,” including live performance and interactive archive, curated by Trish Ziff, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City

2002

The Arthur A Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2001

"The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi," musical score for the exhibition by Michael Nyman; live performance by Sarah Leonard and The Nyman Quartet, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

"Mary Kelly: Mea Culpa," Robert Sandelson, London, UK

2000

"Social Process / Collaborative Action: Mary Kelly 1970-75," Norwich Gallery and Leeds City Art Gallery, UK

1999

Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

1998

"Post-Partum Document, The Complete Work 1973-79," curated by Sabine Breitweiser, The Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

1997

"Social Process/Collaborative Action: Mary Kelly 1970-75," curated by Judith Mastai, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, and Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Galerie Paula Bottcher, Berlin, Germany

Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1996

Konstmuseet, Mälmo, Sweden

Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria

Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

1994

"Mary Kelly: 1973-89," curated by Gertrud Sandquist, Galleri F 15, Alby, Norway; traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Gloria Patri, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University and Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Milwaukee Art Museum, University of Wisconsin; and Konstmuseet, Malm, Sweden

1993

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Milwaukee Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, WI

Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

1992

Gloria Patri, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University (catalog), traveled to Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina

1991

Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria

The Powerplant, Toronto, Canada

1990

"Interim, The Complete Work 1984-89," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery and The Powerplant, Toronto, Canada

1989

Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

CEPA, Buffalo, NY

Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, CA

1988

LACE, Los Angeles

1985

“Interim, Part I: Corpus,” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; traveled to Kettle’s Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge, and Riverside Studios, London, UK

1982

"Mary Kelly and Ray Barrie," George Paton Gallery, Melbourne and University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia

1981

Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

1979

University Gallery, Leeds, UK

New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh

1977

"Post-Partum Document, I-V," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, curated by Mark Francis

1976

"Post-Partum Document, I-III," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK, curated by Barry Barker

1975

"Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labor in Industry," South London Art Gallery, UK

1970

"An Earthwork Performed," with Steven Rothenberg, New Arts Laboratory, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

"Vital Signs: Artists and the Body," MoMA, New York, NY (forthcoming)

"The Whitney Biennal 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

"On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Period of Time," Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Gallery, UC Irvine

2023

"Women in Revolt!: Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970-1990," Tate Modern, London, UK

"Inheritance: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1971-2022," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2023-2025

"La Répétition (Méthode)," Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France

2023

"Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

"Desert X at Christie’s," Christie's Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, CA

2022-2023

"To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

2022

"The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900," National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

"The Condition of Being Addressable," "Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , CA

"Picturing Motherhood Now," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

2021

"Lines of Thought: Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly, Agnes Martin," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

"Mother!" Louisana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

2020

"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2019-2020

"Theater of Operations The Gulf Wars 1991–2011," MoMA PS1, New York, NY

2019

"Mary Kelly: Peace is the Only Shelter in Desert X," Artistic Director, Neville Wakefield, Co-curators, Amanda Hunt and Matthew Schum, Coachella Valley

2018

"Nucleus: Mary Kelly’s Extase and the Birth of the Women’s Art Collection," Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge

"West By MidWest," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL

2018-2019

"Power & Imagination," National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Australia

2018

"Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings," Tate St. Ives, UK (Link)

"Actions…the image of the world can be different," Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (Link)

2017

"ISelf Collection: The End of Love," Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (Link)

“An Incomplete History of Protest,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (Link)

“Wherever the Wind Carries,” Malmö Art Academy and Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden

2016

“Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection,” Whitney Museum, New York, NY

“Of Other Spaces: Where does gesture become event?” Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, Scotland

“Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979,” Tate Britain, London, UK

“A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham,” Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

2015

"A Voice Remains," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK

"The Slick and The Sticky," Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA

“The Great Mother: Women, Maternity, and Power in Art and Visual Cutlure, 1900 – 2015,” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

2014

"Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image Ideology," curated by Anne Ellegood and Johanna Burton, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2013

"Against Method," curated by Gertrud Sandqvist, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

"All you need is Love," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

"Women and Work, Mary Kelly, Margaret Harrison, Kay Hunt, BP Spotlight," Tate Britain, London, UK

2012

"Ends of The Earth: Land Art to 1974," co-curated by Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

"This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s," curated by Helen Molesworth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

"Breaking In Two: Pacific Standard Time," curated by Bruria Finkel, Arena 1, Los Angeles, CA

"Art as Idea, Language and Process in Art," curated by Cecilia Widenheim, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

"Tracing the Century: Drawing from the Tate Collection," Liverpool Tate, London, UK

"Left, Right, Center," Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

"Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

"The Hidden Mother," Berthe Morrisot Hotel Particlier, Paris, France

"Sweethearts: Artist Couples," curated by Kathy Battista, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK

"Family Matters: The Family in British Art," Tate Britain, London, UK; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Millennium Gallery, Museum Sheffield; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK

"About Menocchio we know many things," Betonsalon, Paris, France

2011

"The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1992," co-curated by Nancy Princenthal and Helaine Posner, Nuerberger Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveled to Nasher Museum, North Carolina; traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

"The Experimental Impulse: Pacific Standard Time," co-organized by Thomas Lawson and Aram Moshayedi, Redcat: Roy and Edna Disney Hall/Cal Arts Theater, Los Angeles, CA

"Colorific," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

"Holding the Grey Card," The New Hall Art Collection Biennale, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, MA

"Incognito," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2010

"The Artists Museum," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

"Incognito," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

"Panorama: Los Angeles at ARCOmadrid 2010," co-curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Christopher Miles,

Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"Is Only the Mind Allowed to Wander?," Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada

"Torrent of Words: Contemporary Art and Language," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheybogen, WI

"IASPIS," Open House, Stockholm, Sweden

2009

"British Subjects: Identity and Self Fashioning, 1967-2009," curated by Louise Yelin, Nueberger Museum of Art, New York, NY

"The Moving Image, Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

"Love in the Age of Postponed Democracy," The Critical Crisis, curated by Lilian Fellman, Kunsthalle Luzerne, Switzerland

"Mary Kelly, Christian Capurro, Klaus Mosettig," Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY

2008

"Sydney Biennale: Revolutions Forms That Turn," curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

2008 California Biennial, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; installation, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA

"Not Quite How I Remember It," The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

"Mother Cuts: experiments in film and video," The Visual Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

"Coup de Grace," Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY

"Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art," CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, New York, NY

2007

Documenta 12, Kassel, curated by Roger Buergel and Ruth Noack; installations, Neue Gallerie and Aue Pavillion; happening, Bergpark Wilhelmshhe

"WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," curated by Cornelia Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

"Past Over," Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

"A Batallia Dos Xeneros," curated by Juan Vicente Aliaga, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea,Santiago de Compostela, Spain

"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," Arte Eta Feminismoaren 45 Urte, 45 Anos de Arte y Feminismo / 45 Years of Art and Feminism, curated by Xabier Arakistain, Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts, Spain

"Read Me! Text in Art," curated by Malik Gaines, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

"Nina in Position," curated by Jeffery Uslip; Artists Space, New York, NY

2006

"Full House: Video of the Whitneys Collection at 75," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

"Civil Restitutions," curated by Jeffrey Uslip and Simon Preston, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

"Academy," Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

"State of Emergency," election night screening, Alias, New York, NY

"Concept Has Never Meant Horse," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

"The Look of the Law," curated by Simon Leung, University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, CA

"Technologized Bodies/ Embodied Technologies, Art Interactive," College Art Association, Cambridge, MA

"Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection," Longsdale Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, London, UK

"Sixteen Tons," curated by Michael Darling, New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, University of California Los Angeles, CA

"How To Improve the World: British Art 1946-2006," Hayward Gallery, London, UK

"Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain 1929 to Now," (Berwick Street Film Collective),curator, Tanya Barson, Liverpool Tate, London, UK

2005

"Occupying Space: Generali Foundation Collection," Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museum Borjmans van Beuningen, Nederlands Fotomuseum and Witte de with, Rotterdam

Selected Works From The Collection, Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, CO

"Work/Labor," curated by Silvia Eiblmayr, Galerie in Taxipalais, Tirol, Austria; traveled to Centroa Andaluz de Arte Contemporanea, Sevilla, Spain

"At the Mercy of Others," The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY

"Family," The Photographers Gallery, London, UK

"Mixed-up Childhood," Auckland City Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand

2004

2004 Whitney Biennial, curated by Debra Singer, Shamim Momin, Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

"100 Artists See God," curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL; traveled to The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (2005); Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, VA (2005)

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

"Maternal Metaphors," The Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY

"Dass die Krper sprechen, auch das wissen wir seit," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

"The Shadow of Production," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2003

"Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism," curated by Pamela Auchingeloss and Klaus Ottmann, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; DePauw University Art Gallery, Greencastle, IN

"Identitt schreiben Autobiographie in der Kunst," curated by Hemma Schmutz, Galerie Fűr Zeitgenossische, Leipzig, Germany

"Works from the Permanent Collection," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

"Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in US Art of the 1980s," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

"Intimates," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002

"Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s," White Columns, New York; traveled to The Galleries, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI

"Self Evident: The Artist as the Subject," Tate Britain, London, UK

"On General Release: Artists and Film in Britain, 1968-1972," curated by Lynda Morris and David Curtis, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK; John Hansard Gallery, The University, Highfield Southampton; George Rodger Gallery, KIAD, Maidstone; Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge, MA

"Fetish: Art and the Word," UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2001

"Works From the Collection," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

"Visual Worlds," Richard L Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA

"The Presence of Absence," Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

"Camera Women," curated by Carol Armstrong, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

"Recent Acquisitions: Photograph Works," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2000

"Die verletzte Diva," curated by Silvia Eiblmayr, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Kunstverein,Munich, Siemens Kulturprogramm, Stdtische Galerie, Munich, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden

"Tempus Fugit," curated by Jan Schall, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

"Around 1984," curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, MoMA PS1, New York, NY

"Carnival in the Eye of the Storm," Phillip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

"Dairy," Cornerhouse, Manchester, Firstsite and The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, UK

"Les Semiophores," curated by Philippe Mouillon, Faade of the Town Hall, Lyon, France

"Nude / Body / Action," curated by Iwona Blazwick, The Tate Modern, London, UK

"Snapshot," The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD

"Minimal Politics: Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75, Whitechapel Gallery, London; traveled to Museu Do Chiado, Lisbon

Artworkers, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, and Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK

1999

The American Century: Arts & Culture 1900-2000 Part II, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Einbliche in Die Sammlung, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s - 1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveled to The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to MIT Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA (2000)

La Mmoire, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Laurence Boss, Academie de France, Rome, Italy

Xmas Xhibition, curated by Andrea Frank, Kent Gallery, New York, NY

Sotheby's 8th Biennial Exhibition and Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1998

Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion, curated by Peter Wollen, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Works from the Permanent Collection, curated by John Pultz, The Spencer Museum, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS

Works from the Permanent Collection, curated by Elizabeth Sussman and Eugene Tsai, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1950 Gallery, Independent Curators Incorporated Biennial, New York, NY

Sculpture Urbaine, Grenoble, Pacaembu Stadium Facade Project, Sao Paolo, Brazil

The Older Body, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

Heaven - Private View, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

1997

Critical Images, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY

Minimal Politics: Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, curated by Maurice Berger, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

A Gift for India, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, New Delhi, India

Ten Years of Collecting: 1987 1997, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada

1996

Making Pictures: Women and Photography, Part II, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

Baby Exhibition, Part I, 1708 Gallery, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, FL; traveled to Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA

NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebk, Denmark

Body as Membrane, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark

Documents, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebk, Denmark

Sexual Politics, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

Laughter Ten Years After, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

1995

Temporarily Possessed, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

The Division of Labour: Women and Work, Museum of Contemporary of Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to The Bronx Museum, New York, NY

Social Strategies in the 1970's, The Tate Gallery, London, UK

Desiring Authors, Enveloping Myths, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

Works by Artists in the New Museum Semi-Permanent Collection, Salon of Rebecca Cooper, New York, NY

Anti-Slogans, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, UK

Laughter Ten Years After, The Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT; traveled to Houghton House Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva

Auf den Leib Geschrieben, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

Ciphers of Identity, Art Museum, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL

The Masculine Masquerade, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

1994

Written/Spoken/Drawn in Lacanian Ink, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

Nine Months, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

Ciphers of Identity, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY

Mistaken Identities, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Voicing Today's Visions, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York, NY

One Hundred Hearts Benefit, The Contemporary, New York, NY

1993

Camera Politic, curated by Carlo Frua and Joyce Nereaux, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; traveled to La Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Empty Dress, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; traveled to Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; University Gallery, University of North Texas; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada; The Gallery/Stratford, Ontario, Canada; Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design

I am the Enunciator, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY

Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY

Abjection in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK

Contacts/Proofs, Jersey City Museum


Ciphers of Identity, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD

Benefit Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Benefit Exhibition, Blast Magazine, New York, NY

Benefit Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1992

Mis/taken Identities, University Art Museum, Santa Barbar, CA; traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Neues Museum Weserburgh Bremen im Forum Langenstrasse, Bremen, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark

The Spatial Drive, Blast, Contributor, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Cross Section, The World Financial Center, New York, NY

So Order So Nicht Sein, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh, PA

Womens Art at New Hall, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

1991

Works from the Permanent Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1991 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The Realm of the Coin, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Gender and Representation, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania University, PA

Shocks to the System, The South Bank Centre, London, UK; traveled to Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Switzerland; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; City Museum Plymouth; Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayre

1990

Inquiries-Language in Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; traveled to McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay; Laurentian University Museum and Arts Center, Sudbury; Rodman Hall Arts Center, St Catherines

The Decade Show, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY

Word as Image-American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; traveled to Oklahoma City Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

In Her Image, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York
, NY

1989

Fashioning Feminine Identities, University Gallery, Essex


1988

Modes of Address, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York, NY

Mixed Meaning, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA

1987

Conceptual Clothing, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, AL; traveled to Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston; Peterborough City Museum and Art Gallery; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Spacex Gallery Exeter; Camden Arts Center, London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, State of the Art, Tour: The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

The British Edge, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Propositions: Work from the Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Aspects of Voyeurism, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY


Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

State of the Art,(exhibition, book, and television series), Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

1986

The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire and Everyday Life, Artist's Space, New York, NY

Identity/Desire: Representing the Body, Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; traveled to Crawford Center for the Arts, St Andrews; McLaurin Art Gallery

Electro-media, Public Access Project, Toronto, Canada

1984

Difference, curated by Katherine Linker, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; traveled to The Renaissance Society; University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, MA

The Critical Eye/I, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (Mary Kelly, the complete Post-Partum Document), Victor Burgin, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, David Tremlet

The British Art Show, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Tour: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Southhampton Art Gallery

1983

The Revolutionary Power of Woman's Laughter, Protetch-McNeil, New York; traveled to Art Culture Resource Center, Toronto, Canada; Washington College Art Gallery, Maryland

1982

The 4th Biennale of Sydney, Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Sense and Sensibility, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham

1981

Typisch Frau, Bonner Kunstverein and Gallery Magers, Bonn, Germany

9th Kracow Meetings, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Kracow


Touring Exhibition, Greater London Arts Association

1980

Issue, curated by Lucy Lippard, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

1979

Un Certain Art Anglais, ARCII, Museum d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Europa '79, Heztler, Muller & Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany

Feministische Kunst Internationaal, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands; traveled to de Oosterpoort, Groningen; Nooedbrabants Museum, Den Bosch; de Vleeshal, Middleburgh; Le Vest, Alkmar; de Beyerd, Buda; Nijmeegs Museum, Nijmegen

Both Sides Now, Artmesia Gallery, Chicago, IL

Verbiage, Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge

“Art, Politics, and Ideology,” Dartington College of Art, Devon, UK

1978

Art for Society, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Ulster Museum, Belfast

The Hayward Annual, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK

1977

Radical Attitudes to the Gallery, Art Net, London, UK

1975

“Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry,” South London Art Gallery, London, UK

Sexuality and Socialization, Northern Arts Gallery, Newcastle, UK

Independent Filmmakers Festival, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK

1974

Women's Workshop/Artists Union, Arts Meeting Place, London, UK

1970

Group Exhibition, St Martin's School of Art Gallery, London, UK

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Sussman, Anna Louie. "The Challenges Female Artists Face Mid-Career," Artsy, January 11 (Link)

2018

Rea, Naomi and Kate Brown. "Who Shops at Frieze London? We Buttonholed Rose McGowan, Bob Rennie, and Other Power Players at the Fair," Artnet News (web), October 5 (Link)

"Revisiting the Fiercely Productive Practices of Marginalized Women Artists," Frieze (web), October 1 (Link)

Sussman, Anna Louie. "The Art Market Is Finally Catching up with Strong Female Artists It Ignored," Artsy, October 5 (Link)

"Must See: Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Face-to-Face," ArtForum, Fall (Link)

Fowler, Susanne, " ‘Social Work’ Provides Visibility for Women Artists at Frieze London," New York Times (web), October 1 (Link)

Buck, Louisa. "Social work: eight dissenting female artists feature in Frieze London's new section," The Art Newspaper (web), October 4 (Link)

Bromwich, Kathryn, "Mary Kelly: ‘All borders are anathema to art’" Guardian (web), September 15 (Link)

Kelly, Mary. "Women in the Arts: Mary Kelly," Frieze (web), October 2 (Link)

Black, Holly. "Five Pioneering Female Artists Who Changed the Landscape of the Art World," Another Magazine, October 8 (Link)

2017

Greenberger, Alex. " Getty Research Institute Acquires Mary Kelly Archive," ArtNews, December 13 (Link)

Finkel, Jori. "Art Lurks in an Unlikely Place for Mary Kelly: the Dryer," New York Times, October 21 (Link)

2016

Petty, Felix. "mary kelly, the feminist who revolutionised conceptual art," i-D, April 18 (Link)

Cotter, Holland. "Frieze New York, a Visual Circus Under the Big Top," New York Times, May 5 (Link)

Gottschalk, Molly. "A Donkey and Damien Hirst Dominated Frieze New York’s Fast-Paced Opening Day," Artsy, May 5 (Link)

Buck, Louisa. "Frieze New York 2016 highlights," The Telegraph, May 5 (Link)

Dolfi Agostini, Sara. "A Frieze New York l'arte contemporanea rivela la sua forza," Arteconomy24, May 11 (Link)

Kelly, Mary. "Mary Kelly," Artforum, Summer

Farago, Jason. "Frieze New York review – art world displays its best face and a fine ass," The Guardian, May 5 (Link)

2015

Fowler, William. "10,000 revolutions: meet Mary Kelly, the mother of all feminist artists," The Guardian, (Link)

2014

Castle, Jack. Review of Mary Kelly: On the passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery," Aesthetica, September 21 (Link)

Nagesh, Ashitha. "Mary Kelly at Pippy Houldsworth," Artforum, September

"The Feminist Critique: Mary Kelly’s Project-Based Works at Art Basel," Artsy, June 12 (Link)

Bryan-Wilson, Julia. "Women and Work," Artforum, May (Link)

2012

Winant, Carmen. "Mary Kelly, Postmasters Gallery" Frieze, June/July/August

Richard, Frances. "Mary Kelly, Postmasters Gallery," Artforum, May (Link)

Wyma, Chloe. "23 Questions for Conceptual Artist Mary Kelly," Blouin Art Info, March 5 (Link)

2011

Noble, Kathy. "Mary Kelly," Frieze, June 1 (Link)

O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. "Interview: Mary Kelly," Artforum, February 18 (Link)

2007

White, Ian. "The Body Politic," Frieze, May (Link)

Knight, Christopher. "An abundance of insights: It's difficult to take in MOCA's sprawling `WACK!' exhibition on one visit, but here are three reasons to return," Los Angeles Times, April 29 (Link)

1999

Cotter, Holland. "ART IN REVIEW; Mary Kelly -- 'Mea Culpa,'" New York Times, April 9

1994

Ayerza, Josefina. "Gloria Patri: Mary Kelly interviewed by Josefina Ayerza," Flash Art, May 2

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2024

Carson, Juli. "Mary Kelly's Concentric Pedagogy: Selected Writings," Bloomsbury, London

2023

de Chassey, Éric. "La Répétition Éditions du Centre Pompidou-Metz," Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France. Pg 50-51

2022

Deutsche, Rosalyn. "Not Forgetting," University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL

2021

Liebert, E., Fellah, N. R., Griswold, W., Liebert, E., Keith, N. J., Wexler, L., Lax, T. J., and Griswold, W. (2021). Picturing Motherhood Now. Pg 14-15, 23, 47,111, 123. Cleveland Museum of Art.

2018

Lamm, Kammy. "Addressing the other woman: Textual correspondences in feminist art and writing," Manchester University Press

2017

Nacking, Åsa, Emil Nilsson, and Gertrud Sandqvist, “Whither the Winds,” Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden

Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson, "Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith and Watson Autobiography Studies Reader," Michigan Publishing, Ann Arbor, MI

2016

Nixon, Mignon, “October Files: Mary Kelly,” MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (Link)

2012

Widenheim, Cecilia and Ruth Noack, “Dialogue – On the Politics of Voice,” Iaspis, Stockholm

McCloskey, Paula, “Studies in the Maternal,” Birkbeck University, London

Smith, Terry, “Contemporary Art: World Currents,” Laurence King Publishing and Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey

Mesch, Claudia, “Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change after 1945,” I.B. Tauris, London

Yuen-Yi, Lo, “Drawing the Writing,” Kubrick, Hong Kong

1992

“The Spatial Drive, BLAST,” Pocket Dictionary, New Museum, New York

“Gloria Patri,” (catalog), Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University

"AM LIT,” Neue Literatur aus den USA, Edition Druckhaus III, Berlin, Germany

"Vag Document I,” Vancouver Art Gallery, June 1989

"Now Time No 2,” Art Press, DAP Publications

"Follow Me" (white t-shirt with black ink, L, XL), Artists Space, New York

Harrison, Charles and Paul Wood, “Art in Theory: An Anthology of Sources on Art Theory in the 20th Century,” Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge, MA

1991

"Interim Part I Supplication," Social Text No 28 (cover)

“The Female Body,” an anthology of MQR (Michigan Quarterly Review) publications, The University of Michigan Press

Donald, James "Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory,” St Martin's Press, New York, NY

Turyn, Anne, "Pecunia Olet," City Lights Books, San Francisco

1990

"Interim,’ The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

"instabili,” La Galerie Powerhouse, Centre d'information Artexte, Montreal, Canada

1989

Forman, Frieda, "Taking Our Time,” Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK

“Between Signifiers: A Report by the Participants on The Critical Practice of Art,” a summer intensive held at the Simon Fraser University Centre for the Arts

Mulvey, Laura, “Visual and Other Pleasures,” University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, IN

Pollock, Griselda, “Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and the Histories of Art,” Routledge, London, UK

1987

Parker & Pollock, "Framing Feminism,” Pandora Press, London, UK

Nairne, Sandy, “State of the Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980’s,” Chatto and Windus, London, UK

1986

“Interim,” Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh; Riverside Studios, London; Kettles Yard, Cambridge University

Foster, Hal, “Endgame: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

1985

“Menace,” Talking Back to the Media, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Appignanesi, Lisa, "Woman-Desire-Image," ICA Documents, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

1984

"The Critical Eye/I,” Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

Wallis, Brian, "Art After Modernism,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, DR Godine, Boston

Foster, Hal, “The Anti-Aesthetic,” Bay Press, Seattle, WA

Lippard, Lucy, “Get the Message,” E.P. Dutton, New York

1983

“Post-Partum Document,” Routledge & Kegan Paul, London

1982

Sense and Sensibility, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK

1981

Parker, Rozsika and Griselda Pollock, “Old Mistress: Women, Art, and Ideology,” Routledge and Kegan Paul, London

1980

"Post-Partum Document,” Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

“Art and Politics,” Winchester School of Art Press 
1977

Brighton and Morris, "Towards Another Picture,” Midland Group, Nottingham

1976

“Post-Partum Document,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2018

Honorary Doctorate, Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland

2017

Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University, Sweden

2015

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

2012

Anonymous Was a Woman Award

The Distinguished Artists’ Interviews, College Art Association

2004

Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Wolverhampton, England

2001

Council on Research Award, University of California, Los Angeles

1998

Council on Research Award, University of California, Los Angeles

1987

National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship

1985

New Hall, Cambridge University, Artist-in-Residence Award

1980

Greater London Arts Association Visual Arts Award

1979

Hans Jorgen Muller Award, Europa 79, Stuttgart

1978

Lina Garnade Memorial Foundation Award

1977

Arts Council of Great Britain Visual Arts Award

1973

Greater London Arts Association Fellowship

Public Collections

Arts Council of Great Britain

Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada

Australian National Gallery

Burger Collection, Zurich, Switerland

Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

Centre Pompidou Foundation, Paris, France

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, CO

Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Helsinki City Art Museum
, Finland

Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, NY

Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland

Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada

Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Museum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

New Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

Progressive Corporation

Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX

Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS

Tate Britain, London, UK

Tate Modern, London, UK

Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Weil, Gotshal and Manges Collection


Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK