Mary Kelly (artist)

Mary Kelly
Born1941 (age 82–83)
NationalityAmerican
EducationSt. Martin's School of Art
Known forVisual Art, Feminist Studies
Notable workPost-Partum Document (1973-79), Love Songs (2005-07), Peace is the Only Shelter (2019)
MovementConceptual art
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2015)[1]
Websitemarykellyartist.com

Mary Kelly (born 1941, Fort Dodge, Iowa[2]) is an American conceptual artist, feminist, educator, and writer.[3]

Kelly has contributed extensively to the discourse of feminism and postmodernism through her large-scale narrative installations and theoretical writings. Kelly's work mediates between conceptual art and the more intimate interests of artists of the 1980s. Her work has been exhibited internationally[4] and she is considered among the most influential contemporary artists working today.[5] Kelly is Judge Widney Professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design of the University of Southern California.[6] She was previously Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was Head of Interdisciplinary Studio, an area she initiated for artists engaged in site-specific, collective, and project-based work.[7] She was interviewed about her experience teaching at UCLA in Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World.[8]

  1. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Mary Kelly". gf.org. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  2. ^ Phaidon Editors (2019). Great women artists. Phaidon Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0714878775. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ Walker, John A. Art and Outrage: Provocation, Controversy and the Avant-garde. Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, London: Pluto, 1999 page 83
  4. ^ "Artists (select from top menu)". Postmasters Gallery NYC. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  5. ^ "Mary Kelly: Four Works in Dialogue 1973-2010". Moderna Museet. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  6. ^ "Mary Kelly | Roski School of Art and Design".
  7. ^ "Mary Kelly - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studio". University of California, Art Department. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015.
  8. ^ L.), Thornton, Sarah (Sarah (2009-11-02). Seven days in the art world. New York. ISBN 9780393337129. OCLC 489232834.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)