Installation view
Mary Reid Kelley was born in South Carolina in 1979. She studied Art and Women’s Studies at St. Olaf College and received her MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2009. The videos she makes in collaboration with her husband, artist Patrick Kelley, have been shown in New York, Los Angeles, and London. Other exhibitions include The Wexner Center for the Arts (2012); Bard CCS (2012), MACRO Rome (2012); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2010); and ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (2010). Mary and Patrick completed a commissioned video for the 2010 SITE Santa Fe Biennial, The Dissolve. In August 2013 the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston will present an exhibition of the video work.
An interest in language, literature and history informs their work, which combines video, poetry, animation, performance, and painting. The videos have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Flash Art, Frieze, and Art in America. The making of The Syphilis of Sisyphus (2011) was documented in Season Six of Art21, episode “History”. From 2011 to 2012 Mary and Patrick resided at the American Academy in Rome, and now live in upstate New York.
Collage, acrylic, ink, charcoal on paper: 11 x 14 inches
More information can be found here:
Art 21: Mary Reid Kelley: “You Make Me Iliad”
Finding the Reason in Mary Reid Kelley’s Mad Rhymes About French History
