# Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/mary-reid-kelley/ Represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles Mary Reid Kelley combines painting, performance, and her distinctive wordplay-rich poetry in polemical, graphically stylized videos made in collaboration with her partner, Patrick Kelley. Their videos explore history, language, and literature from a feminist perspective and are often uproariously hilarious. The carefully crafted scripts use humor to reimagine or poke fun at historical narratives. In addition to writing the texts that drive the videos, Reid Kelley performs all the speaking characters herself, disguised by elaborate costuming and makeup. Shot in stark, metallic black and white, both Kelleys draw us into an absurd realm decked out in dramatic black-and-white paintwork. Figures totter and gesticulate like marionettes, endowed with Ping-Pong balls for eyes and bearing black contour lines across their bodies. The video trilogy—*Priapus Agonistes*(2013), *Swinburne’s Pasiphae*(2014), and *The Thong of Dionysus*(2015)—is a key example of their work. The trilogy explores the story of the Minotaur, the half man (though in this case half woman), half bull mythological character of ancient Greece. Reframing this well-known myth through a feminist lens amplifying the themes of female desire and masculine prowess, they use slapstick and multidimensional wordplay to create a frenetic, high-octane re-telling. The Minotaur Trilogy follows a long line of artists who have focused on the beast, such as Pablo Picasso and the Surrealists. In addition to the videos, the Kelleys also make sculpture and installations from the film props and sets, as well as drawings, paintings, and life-size, highly detailed lightbox photographs of the characters from the films. Mary Reid Kelley was born in 1979 and lives and works in Los Angeles. Mary Reid Kelley graduated with an MFA from Yale in 2009. She has received numerous awards for her work including a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship; a Guggenheim Fellowship, Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, and an AICA Award in Best Time-Based Format (performance, video film, sound) for *Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos*, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, Curated by Daniel Belasco, among many others. Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Collection, The Goetz Collection in Munich, Germany, and the UBS Art Collection in New York, NY, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. ## Exhibitions - [Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick KelleyBest Femmes Forever](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/mary-reid-kelley-and-patrick-kelleybest-femmes-forever.md): March 16 — July 28, 2024 · La Ferme Du Buisson · Artists: Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley - [Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick KelleyThe Rape of Europa](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/the-rape-of-europa-mary-reid-kelley-and-patrick-kelley.md): August 12, 2021 — January 2, 2022 · Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum · Artists: Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley - [20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 2](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/20-years-anniversary-exhibition-part-2.md): June 26 — August 7, 2021 · Gallery I & II · Artists: Nick Aguayo, Edgar Arceneaux, Sadie Benning, Ellen Berkenblit, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Louise Fishman, Charles Gaines, Karl Haendel, Samuel Levi Jones, My Barbarian, Rodney McMillian, Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley, Elizabeth Neel, Yunhee Min, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Hugo McCloud, Dave McKenzie, Nicola Tyson - [Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley: Rand/Goop](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/mary-reid-kelley-and-patrick-kelley-rand-goop.md): July 5 — October 6, 2019 · Studio Voltaire, London, UK · Artists: Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley - [Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley: America Rides The Breakfast Table](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/mary-redi-kelley-and-patrick-kelley-america-rides-the-breakfast-table.md): November 3 — December 15, 2018 · Artists: Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley - [Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We Are Ghosts](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/mary-reid-kelley-and-patrick-kelley-we-are-ghosts.md): November 17, 2017 — March 18, 2018 · Tate Liverpool · Artists: Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley - [Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley: Expressive in black and white](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2016-09-mary-reid-kelley-expressive-in-black-and-white.md): September 30, 2016 — January 8, 2017 · Museum Leuven, Leuven, Germany · Artists: Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley - [Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley: Mary Reid Kelley](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-07-mary-reid-kelley-mary-reid-kelley.md): July 31 — October 27, 2013 · The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)/ Boston · Artists: Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley - [Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley: Priapus Agonistes](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-06-mary-reid-kelley-priapus-agonistes.md): June 1 — July 6, 2013 · Artists: Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley - [Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley: Sadie, the Saddest Sadist](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-05-mary-reid-kelley-sadie-the-saddest-sadist.md): May 8 — June 12, 2010 · Artists: Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley ## Biography 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](https://artbma.org/exhibitions/kelley)) "Mary Reid Kelley," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2017 "Mary Reid Kelley," MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg ([Link](http://www.mudam.lu/fr/expositions/details/exposition/mary-reid-kelley/)) "We Are Ghosts," Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK ([Link](http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/mary-reid-kelley-and-patrick-kelley-we-are-ghosts)) 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](http://www.mleuven.be/en/contemporary-art/coming-soon/Mary-reid-kelley/)) 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](http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2015/hammer-projects-mary-reid-kelley/)) 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](http://csw.art.pl/index.php?action=aktualnosci&s2=1&id=1345&lang=eng)) 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](https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/04/07/corpus-meets-corpse-mary-reid-kelley-patrick-kelley-blood-moon/?lp_txn_id=1343722)) Larios, Pablo. "The Village People," Mousse Magazine, January 2021 Watlington, Emily. 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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