Mary Kelly

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Mary Kelly (born June 7, 1941 in Fort Dodge , IA ) is an American conceptual artist whose work primarily deals with feminist topics.

Life

Kelly studied art and music at the College of Saint Teresa , a Catholic women's college in Winona , MN , where she graduated with a BA in 1963 . Then she went to Europe, and studied art and art history at the Institute Pius XII. in Florence , where she in 1965 the MA received. In 1970 , after further studies, she received a postgraduate degree in painting from St. Martin's School of Art in London .

From 1968 Kelly worked in London as an artist, teacher, curator and publicist. Her first solo exhibition took place in 1976 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London - Kelly showed three of the six documents from her multi-year project Post-Partum Document . The work visualizes and analyzes the mother-child relationship between Kelly and her son, using drawings, diagrams and found objects . At that time, the work also gained a certain level of awareness outside of the art world, which resulted from the publicity surrounding the use of materials that were not considered worthy of art, such as B. used diapers resulted. Post-Partum Document was first published in book form in 1983, and was first fully exhibited at the Yale Center for British Art in 1984 . In 1989 Kelly moved from London to New York. She is currently a professor in the Department of Art at UCLA .

Kelly deals mainly with topics such as cultural identity, especially the construction of femininity and power in the western world. She takes a critical look at the works of u. a. Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan apart.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2004: Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City
  • 2001: The Ballad Of Kastriot Rexhepi , music composed by Michael Nyman for the occasion was premiered during the installation . Santa Monica Museum of Art.
  • 1998: Post-Partum Document - The Complete Work (1973-79) . Generali Foundation , Vienna.
  • 1996: Konstmuseet Malmö.
  • 1994: Helsinki City Art Museum.
  • 1991: Power Plant, Toronto
  • 1990: New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York
  • 1990: Vancouver Art Gallery
  • 1977: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
  • 1976: The Institute of Contemporary Art, London.

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel.
  • 2007: WACK! - Art and the Feminist Revolution. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
  • 2005: Occupying Space . House of Art, Munich.
  • 2004: Whitney Biennial . Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
  • 2002: Self Evident . Tate Britain, London.
  • 2000: Nude / Body / Action . Tate Modern, London.
  • 1999: The American Century 1950-2000 . Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
  • 1996: NowHere . Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.
  • 1995: written on the body . Kunsthalle, Vienna.
  • 1991: Whitney Biennial . Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
  • 1979: Un Certain Art Anglais . Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
  • 1979: Feminist Art Internationaal . Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.
  • 1978: Hayward Annual , London.

Works

  • Post-Partum Document . University of California Press, 1999.
  • Mary Kelly: Re-reading Post-Partum Document , Generali Foundation, Vienna 1999.
  • Imaging Desire . The MIT Press, Cambridge 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other sources give - with the same year of birth - as place of birth Albert Lea , MN . Fort Dodge is z. B. occupied in Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution . The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The MIT Press, Cambridge 2007.
  2. ^ Santa Monica Museum of Art: Archives 2002 . Online under Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smmoa.org
  3. ^ Generali Foundation: Exhibitions . Here: Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document, The Complete Works (1973-79). From September 25 to December 20, 1998. Online under Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / foundation.generali.at
personal data
SURNAME Kelly, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Dodge , Iowa