Mary Reid Kelley
& Patrick Kelley

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Selected Works

Exhibitions

Biography


Mary Reid Kelley
“Moon Gate,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley
“Moon Gate,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“Blood Moon,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“Blood Moon,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“Blood Moon,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“Blood Moon,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“The Rape Of Europa,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“The Rape Of Europa,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“The Rape Of Europa,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“The Rape Of Europa,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“I'm Jackson Pollock,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“I'm Jackson Pollock,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“I'm Jackson Pollock,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley
“I'm Jackson Pollock,” 2021

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
America Rides the Breakfast Table

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
America Rides the Breakfast Table

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
America Rides the Breakfast Table

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
America Rides the Breakfast Table

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
America Rides the Breakfast Table

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
America Rides the Breakfast Table

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
America Rides the Breakfast Table

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
America Rides the Breakfast Table

This is an artwork titled Torpedo Juice by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2017

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
Torpedo Juice, 2017

This is an artwork titled Strong Poison by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2018

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
Strong Poison, 2018

This is an artwork titled Memorial to the USS Reuben James by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2018

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
Memorial to the USS Reuben James, 2018

This is an artwork titled Harry S. Truman by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2017

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
Harry S. Truman, 2017

This is an artwork titled Gaudy Night by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2017

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
Gaudy Night, 2017

This is an artwork titled Six Decisive Battles of Childhood by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2018

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
Six Decisive Battles of Childhood,, 2018

This is an artwork titled In the Body of the Sturgeon by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2018

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
In the Body of the Sturgeon, 2018

This is an artwork titled [Still]In the Body of the Sturgeon by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2018

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
[Still]In the Body of the Sturgeon, 2018

This is an artwork titled [Still] In the Body of the Sturgeon by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2018

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
[Still] In the Body of the Sturgeon, 2018

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
In

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
In

This is an artwork titled The Queen's English by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2008

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
The Queen's English, 2008

This is an artwork titled The Queens English by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2008

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
The Queens English, 2008

This is an artwork titled Sadie, The Saddest Sadist by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2009

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
Sadie, The Saddest Sadist, 2009

This is an artwork titled Sadie, The Saddest Sadist by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2009

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
Sadie, The Saddest Sadist, 2009

This is an artwork titled Sadie, The Saddest Sadist by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2009

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
Sadie, The Saddest Sadist, 2009

This is an artwork titled Large QE Front by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2010

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
Large QE Front, 2010

This is an artwork titled Large QE Side by artist Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley made in 2010

Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
Large QE Side, 2010

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
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
"Mary Reid Kelley," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2017
"Mary Reid Kelley," MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
"We Are Ghosts," Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cotter, Holland. "Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again?," The New York Times, August 12
2019
Fullerton, Elizabeth. "'They're our female supervillains!' Artists mash up Ayn Rand and Gwyneth Paltrow," The Guardian, July 2
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
Campbell, Andy. "Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley," Artforum, February
Wood, Eve. "Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley," Artillery, January 2
2018
Knight, Christopher. "Review: Harry S. Truman at the center of this wonderfully weird, strangely poignant art show," Los Angeles Times, November 30
Horst, Aaron. "Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley at Susanne Vielmetter," Carla, November 29 (web)
Dunne, Aidan, "Kelleys’ bizarre creations crackle with energy of early cinema," The Irish Times (web), August 4
Thorne, Harry, "The Burlesque Worlds of Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley," frieze, April 5
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
Culpan, Daniel, "Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley at Tate Liverpool," Artforum, January
2017
Searle, Adrian, "Drag acts and drunken sailors – Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We Are Ghosts review," The Guardian (web), November 21
Sharp, Sarah Rose, "Artists Embrace the Grayscale," Hyperallergic (web), July 20
Wallace, David, "Walter Benjamin’s Unfinished Magnum Opus, Revisited through Contemporary Art," The New Yorker (web), May 9
Pinto, Ana Teixeira, "Review: Mary Reid Kelley at Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany," frieze (web), January 14
2016
Jeppesen, Travis, "Critics’ Pick: Mary Reid Kelley at Arratia Beer," Artforum (web), April 1
Teixeria Pinto, Ana, "Mary Reid Kelley’s ‘The Minotaur Trilogy’," art agenda (web), April 11
Scher, Robin, "Sara Cwynar and Mary Reid Kelley Named Winners of the Baloise Art Prize,’ ArtNews (web), June 14
Gleisner, Jacquelyn, "MacArthur Fellow Mary Reid Kelley on Dismantling Sexual Taboos with Humor," Hyperallergic (web), October 26,
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
Frank, Priscilla, "Video Artist Mary Reid Kelley on Why the Urge to Apply Makeup is Fundamentally Human," The Huffington Post (web), September 23
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
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
2013
Thomson, Allese, "500 Words: Mary Reid Kelley," Artforum.com, August 14
Yurkevich, Vanessa, "Mary Reid Kelley Debuts at the ICA Boston," Artinfo, October 2
McQuaid, Cate, Images speaking of desire and fear at the ICA, The Boston Globe, August 1
Frank, Priscilla, Mary Reid Kelleys 3D Historical Tableaux Come To ICA Boston, The Huffington Post, July 29
Cheh, Carol, Review: Mary Reid Kelley: Priapus Agonistes, Pastelegram, July 26
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
Mizota, Sharon, Modern girl, Los Angeles Times, May 21
Ryan, Bartholomew, Marx On My, Lenin Mary Reid Kelley, Metropolis M, April
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
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
Senior Critic, UPenn School of Design
Critic, Yale University School of Art
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