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