Mary Reid Kelley

Born 1979 in Greenville, US

Lives and works in Olivebridge

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

The Rape of Europa, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMΣΤ), Athens, Greece

Best Femmes Forever, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France 

2021

Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Blood Moon, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, US

The Rape of Europa: Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, US

2019

Studio Voltaire, London, UK

2018

I Smelled a Raw Recruit: The World War Films of Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

Solo exhibition, Suzanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles, US

Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We are Ghosts, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US

2017

Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We are Ghosts, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Mary Reid Kelley, MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2016

We’re Wallowing Here In Your Disco Tent, The High Line, New York, US

Mary Reid Kelley, M - Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

A Marquee Piece of Sod – The WWI Films of Mary Reid Kelley, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Screen Space: Mary Reid Kelley. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

The Minotaur Trilogy, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany

2015

The Thong of Dionysus, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, US

Hammer Projects: Mary Reid Kelley, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US

Mary Reid Kelley, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia

Mary Reid Kelley, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, US

2014

Swinburne’s Pasiphae, Pilar Corrias, London, UK

Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz; University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, New York, US

The Syphilis of Sisyphus, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, US

Mary Reid Kelley, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, Austria

2013

Mary Reid Kelley, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA), Boston, US

Sadie, The Saddest Sadist and Priapus Agonistes, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, US

The Syphilis of Sisyphus: Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley, AMOA Arthouse, The Jones Centre, Austin, Texas, US

Priapus Agonistes, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, US

2012

The Syphilis of Sisyphus (screening), The Box at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US

H/Qu: Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, US

Performing Histories: Mary Reid Kelley, Salina Art Center, Salina, US

2011

The Syphilis of Sisyphus, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, US

2010

You Make Me Iliad, Pilar Corrias, London, UK

Sadie, The Saddest Sadist, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, US

2009

Sadie, The Saddest Sadist, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, US

2007

Bring Superior Forces to Bear, Rochester Art Centre, US

2006

Paper Union, Augsburg College Christensen Gallery, US

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

80th Anniversary Collection Exhibition Featuring New Acquisitions, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

2022

Role Play, Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

2018

Transantiquity, Galeria Municipal Do Porto, Porto, Portugal

FRONT Triennial, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, US

The Classical Now, Somerset House East Wing Kings College, London, UK

Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2017

Life a User’s Manual, Art Encounters Contemporary Art Biennale, Timisoara and Arad, Romania

The Humours, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia

Artists’ Film International 2017, ‘This Is Offal’, sponsored by Hammer Museum, LA. Multiple international locations throughout 2017, including Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Gray Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US

Commercial Break, Public Art Fund, New York, US

The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, The Jewish Museum, New York, US

2017 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, US

2016

About Face, University of Arkansas Fine Art Gallery, Arkansas, US

World War 1 And American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, US

Sexting, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, US

Romeo Inaugural Exhibition, Romeo, New York, US

Objects Do Things, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

Mixtape 2016, Pilar Corrias, London, UK

2015

By the Book, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US

The Beast and the Sovereign, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona – ES; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany

Classicicity: Ancient art, contemporary objects, BREESE LITTLE, London, UK

Making Histories, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas, US

Pratfall Tramps, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, US

Not Really, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, US

Who’s Speaking?, Klemms Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2014

Tightened As If By Pliers, Knockdown Center, Queens, New York, US

Mary Reid Kelley and Maria Lassnig, Rose Video Series 03, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, US

Pale Fire, The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, US

Art Rotterdam Fair, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2013

Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from the Alumni Collections, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, US

2012

Buy My Bananas, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, US

Weighted Words, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Re-generation, MACRO Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy

Rear View Mirror, Space B, New York, US

Pencil Pushed, University of Tennessee: Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, Knoxville, US

2011

Doublespeak, Salt Lake City Art Centre, Utah, US

Words: Videos from the Collection of Marlene Nathan Myerson, Brand 10 Art Space, Fort Worth, Texas – US Stagecraft: Brian Bress, Deville Cohen, Kate Gilmore, Mary Reid Kelley, University of South Florida Contemporary Art, Tempa, Florida, US

Images From a Floating World, Fredericks and Freiser, New York, US

Texture.txt, Regina Rex, New York, US

2010

The Dissolve, SITE Sante Fe International Biennal, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US

Mash-up: Splicing Life, UConn Contemporary Arts Galleries, Storrs, Connecticut, US ;Signal & Noise Media Arts Festival, VIVO Media Arts Center, Vancouver, Canada

Fast Forward 2: The Power of Motion, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

Ludicrous!, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US

2008

Will Happiness Fine Me?, Marvelli Gallery, New York, US 

2006

Uncle Tom to Peeping Tom, Wisconsin African American Women’s Center, Wisconsin, US

2005

Pinko Commies, Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, US

2004

Draw, SooVisual Art Center, Minneapolis, US

 

EDUCATION

2009

MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven

2001

Bachelor of Arts Magna cum Laude, St. Olaf College, Minnesota

 

AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2016

The MacArthur Fellowship

Baloise Art prize, Art Basel

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

Joseph H.Hazen Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome
Production Residency at EMPAC, Renessalear Polytechnic Institute

2009

Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant

Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship, Yale University

2008

CCA Visual Arts Fellowship

Schoelkopf Travel Grant, Yale University

Beinecke Library Research Fellowship, Yale University

Guest Lecturer, Women and Art at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery

2004

Jerome Foundation Artist Residency Fellowship at Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Moose Lake, Minnesota

2001

Art Apprenticeship, St. Olaf College Department of Art and Art History, Northfield, Minnesota

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