Mary Reid Kelley
Priapus Agonistes, 2013. HD video, 15 minutes, 9 seconds
Priapus, 2013. Watercolor and charcoal on collaged paper, 20 x 17 inches
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Greenville, South Carolina, 1979
Resides: Olivebridge, New York
Education: Yale University School of Art (M.F.A., 2009);
St. Olaf College (B.A., 2001)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014
"Rose Video 03," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis
University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
"Working Objects and Videos," Samuel Dorsky
Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, and University
Art Museum at SUNY Albany.
2013
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
"The Syphilis of Sisyphus," The Contemporary Austin,
Texas.
"Priapus Agonistes," Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los
Angeles.
2012
"The Syphilis of Sisyphus," The Box at Wexner Center for
the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
2011
"The Syphilis of Sisyphus," Fredericks & Freiser, New York.
2010
"You Make Me Iliad," Pilar Corrias Gallery, London.
2009
"Sadie, The Saddest Sadist," Fredericks & Freiser, New York.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
"Buy My Bananas," Kate Werble Gallery, New York.
"Re-Generation," MACRO Testaccio, Rome.
"Weighted Words," Zabludowiz Collection, London.
2010
"The Dissolve," SITE Santa Fe Biennial of 2010, New Mexico.
"Ludicrous!" Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
Selected Bibliography
2013
Herbert, Martin. Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in
Drawing. London: Phaidon.
Green, Tyler. "Mary Reid Kelley: Interview," Modern
Art Notes Podcast (July 25).
2012
Sollins, Susan. "Art in the Twenty-First Century:
History," Art21 PBS broadcast (April 27).
2011
Johnson, Ken. "Mary Reid Kelley: The Syphilis of
Sisyphus," The New York Times (December 1).
Boucher, Brian. "Mary Reid Kelley in Plain Frenglish,"
Art in America (November).
2010
Forde, Kate. "Mary Reid Kelley," Frieze (November/
December).
Mizota, Sharon. "Modern Girl," Los Angeles Times (May 21).
Kazanjian, Dodie. "The Body Eccentric," Vogue (February).
2009
Smith, Roberta. "Make Room For Video, Performance,
and Paint," The New York Times (December 31).
Madoff, Steven. "Mary Reid Kelley," Artforum (November).
Storr, Robert. "So It Goes," Frieze (November/December).