John Kelly (performance artist)

John Kelly
Born1959[1]
United States
LanguageEnglish
GenreTheatre

John Kelly (born 1959)[1] is an American performance artist, visual artist and writer.[2]

His work first gained notoriety in the 1980s East Village art scene, and in the last 40 years Kelly has received two Bessie Awards, two Obie Awards, two NEA American Masterpiece Awards, an American Choreographer Award, a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (CalArts), a Visual AIDS Vanguard Award, and an Ethyl Eichelberger Award. His work has been presented at Lincoln Center and Brooklyn Academy of Music.[3][4]

He is a MacDowell Colony fellow.[2]

  1. ^ a b “John Kelly”. Visual Aids. Retrieved 6 August 2018. http://visualaids.org/artists/detail/john-kelly
  2. ^ a b Callahan, Dan (26 February 2018). "'Artists Are Warriors': An Interview With John Kelly, a Performer Outside of Time". The Village Voice. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  3. ^ VINCENTELLI, ELISABETH (5 March 2018). "Review: In 'Time No Line,' John Kelly Revisits Decades of Diary Entries". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  4. ^ Dunning, Jennifer (7 November 1993). "DANCE; Dancing on a High Wire Of Inspired Lunacy". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 March 2018.