Mary A. Kelly

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Website https://marykelly.website/

Mary A. Kelly is a contemporary Irish artist and filmmaker. She holds an M.A. in Fine Art from N.C.A.D. as well as a Degree in Film from the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She also holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology from U.C.D.

Bio & Career

Mary A. Kelly has won many awards, including recently The College of Surgeons art award in conjunction with the Irish Times 2019, Artlinks award 2007 and the Irish American Arts award 2006. Her films have been screened at amongst others, NYU Tish School of the Arts, Cantor Film Centre New York and B.B.C. Short Film Festival, UCI Leicester Square London. She is widely collected and is included in both the Microsoft and Goldman Sachs collections/b. She is widely collected and is included in both the Microsoft and Goldman Sachs collections.

Publications

Photography books by

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Mary Kelly Appears in

Year, Author(s), Title, City: Publisher (Listed chronologically)
2012 Atelier + Kitchen = Laboratories of the Senses, Edited by MARTA Herford, foreword by Hubertus Gaßner, Roland Nachtigäller, texts by Sabine Autsch, Friederike Fast, Hubertus Gaßner, Michael Kröger, Herbert Molderings, Thomas Niemeyer, Jürgen Raap, Sabine Schütz, Oliver Seifert, Philip Ursprung, Monika Wagner. ISBN 978-3-7757-3438-7
2012 Father & Child, essay by David Galloway, ISBN 978-3-00-037855-3
2011 Contemporary Visual Art in Ireland 2000 – 2011. Curated / edited by Noel Kelly & Seán Kissane. ISBN: 978-1-907683-11-4
2010 Intimacy! Baden in der Kunst, Burkhard Leissmere and Martina Padberg. ISBN 978-3-86832-020-6
2010 Movers and Shapers 3 – Conversations in the Irish Art World, Vera Ryan, p. 115 – 117, Galley Head Press
2010 Mirror Mirror, a selection of work from the National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland
2009 Another Island, Contemporary Irish Art. Seeing Ireland by Aidan Dunne
2008 The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 2, March-April, Mary A. Kelly, p. 12
2007 Journeys, Office of Public Works.
2006 Ten Years in the Making, Art in State Buildings ’95 – ’05, OPW
2005 Paris Photo ’05
2005 Eurojet Futures, An Anthology of Emerging Art from Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy
2005 Artists at Work. Asylum. Contexts. The art work, issue 2/2005
2005 Asylum, St. Mary’s hospital, Castlebar
2004 Why Paint? A vox pop, Circa art magazine, September
2004 Paris Photo ‘04
2003 The Landing, by Mary A. Kelly, p. 48, Contexts café publications, volume 2
2003 Losing it, Article Press, U.K.
2003 Royal Irish Academy Summer/autumn 2003
2003 Crawford Open 1/3, ‘02
2001 From Past to Present, Art of the State ‘01, 1815 – 2001
2001 Wide Shut, Sligo Art Gallery
2001 Eurojet futures 01
1999 Installation Programme ’99, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
1999 How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb by Mary A. Kelly & Abigail O’Brien
1999 Perspective ’99, Black Sole Bonne Femme, by Mary A. Kelly & Abigail O’Brien
1998 in many ways we were strangers…by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, EV+A reduced catalogue
1998 Reviewed Once Is Too Much, I.M.M.A., Circa Art Magazine, issue 83
1998 Crossing the Distance, by Louise Dompierre, Perspective ’98 Catalogue
1998 Reviewed Banquet Show, R.H.A with Peter FitzGerald & Elaine Hartigan, Circa Art Magazine, no.82

Awards and honours

Year, Title of the award, Awarding Body, City, Country (Listed chronologically)
2019 Winner of the Royal College of Surgeons art award in conjunction with The Irish Times
2007 Artlinks Bursary Award 2007
2006 Irish American Arts Awards, New York, Oct.06.
2006 Mermaid Greenstar Open Submission Competition Award Winner
2005 Arts Council Travel & Mobility award
2005 Cultural Relations Committee award
2003 Arts Council Bursary Award
2002 Artists-in-prison-scheme, Arts Council award, Portlaoise Prison, Summer ’02, Autumn ‘02
2001 Solo Exhibition Award, Sligo Art Gallery, March
2000 Arts Council Bursary Award, May ’00.
2000 Wicklow County Council Arts Funding Awards, May
1999 EV+A award
1999 Arts Council – Aer Lingus Travel Award
1998 NCEA Student of the Year Award
1998 Random Access Video Training Symposium, Sculptor Society of Ireland
1998 Markievicz Gold Medal ’97/’98 for Best Emerging Sculpture, United Arts Club, Dublin

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Year, Title, Curator, Venue, City, Country (Listed chronologically)
2020 Chair, Galerie Voss, Mühlengasse 3D-40213 Düsseldorf, Germany
2019 Chair, Touring Exhibition supported by the Arts Council. Highlanes Art Gallery, Drogheda, Co. Louth
2019 Customhouse Gallery, Westport Co. Mayo, Uillinn: West Cork Art Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork.
2016 Sacred Secrets, Custom House Gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo
2016 Kathleen Lynn, Insider on the Outside, Mayo. Collaborative exhibition, curated by Catherine Marshall,
2013 Docks Art Fair, solo show, Lyon, France
2013 Dusseldorf Photo Weekend, Galerie Voss, Muhlengasse 3, D-40213, Dusseldorf, Germany,
2012 Father and Child, Galerie Voss, Mühlengasse 3, D-40213 Düsseldorf, Germany
2010 Burial, as part of unbuilding project, Mermaid Art Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow. Curated Group Exhibition
asylum, video installation, International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership Conference, Republic of Ireland
2009 Father and Child, New Work, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
2008 Clay, Claremorris Gallery, Claremorris, Co. Mayo
2007 Under Construction, Hoarding Installation at site of new County Arts Centre, commissioned by South County Council as part of Fused ’07, June – duration of hoarding.
Pillars I, Mermaid Art Center, Bray, Co. Wicklow. 26 April
Asylum, John Mooney Foundation, Chigago, U.S.A., October – November
2005 Asylum, Linen Hall Gallery, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, June
2005 The Landing, Solo booth, Brussels Art Fair, April
2004 The Landing, The Blue Room, Galerie Bugdhn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004 The Landing, The Blue Room, One Person Show with Galerie Bugdhn und Kaimer, at Art Brussels
2004 The Landing, The Blue Room, One Person Show with Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, at Paris Photo, Paris
2003 The Landing, The Blue Room, Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Ely Place,
Dublin.
2002 Food for Thought, Microsoft Atrium Building, Sandyford Industrial Estate, Dublin, Commission. Architects, Murray Olaoire
2002 Alice’s Teaparty, Through the Looking Glass, Office of Public Works, St. Stephens Green Dublin, Commission as % for Art Scheme
2001 How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb, collaboration with Abigail O’Brien, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Muhlengasse 3, Dusseldorf,
2001 Wide Shut, Sligo Art Gallery
2000 Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, August
1999 How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb by Mary A. Kelly and Abigail O’Brien. Concourse Installation Programme, County Hall, Dún Laoghaire
Installation sited in Circa magazine, issue 87, How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb, Spring
1998 Pure Blue, Intermedia ’98, Triskel Art Centre, Cork

Group Exhibitions

2019 Boyle Arts Festival
2019 Royal Hibernian Academy Open Submission Annual
2019 REGARD, work from the National Portrait Collection of Ireland; The Bourne Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick
2018 R.H.A. Annual
2017 Vernissage, Galerie Voss, Muhlengasse 3, D-40213, Düsseldorf
2017 Rue des Cordeliers, Portraits of a House, published by Keber; publication curated by Christoph Benjamin Schultz
2016 Two Birds / One Stone, Farmleigh Gallery, curated by Janet Mullarney
2016 an Image of Ireland, Contemporary Artists of Ireland, Luciano Benneton Collection.
2015 Gemalte Legenden gezeichnete Helden, Kunstverein, Villa Streccius, Landau, Germany, September – October
2015 R.H.A Annual, Ely Place, Dublin, May – August
2014 Conversations, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin, June – December
2014 R.H.A. Annual, Ely Place, Dublin, May – August
2014 Re-framing the Domestic in Irish Art, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Co. Louth, April – August
2014 Catch The He(art) – A travelling Residency – May 2014, curated by Michelle Browne
2013 R.H.A. annual, Royal Hibernian Acadamy, Dublin May – August
2013 Skin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin, March
2013 HANDICRAFT. Threads and stitches in fine art, Museum Kunst der Westküste Det Paulsen Legaat gemeinnützige, GmbH, Hauptstraße 7, D-25938 Alkersum, March – August
2013 Skin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, Dublin, March – April
2012 Atelier + Kitchen – Laboratories of the Senses, at Martha Herford Museum, Goebenstraße 4–10, 32052 Herford,
2012 7.42, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Co. Louth. Solo shows with artists Thomas Brezing, Sean Cotter and Abigail O’Brien, July 2012
2012 7.42, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland with artists Thomas Brezing, Sean Cotter and Abigail O’Brien, March 2012
2011 Still, The Peppercanister Gallery, 3 Herbert St, Dublin 2
2011 7.42, Lapua Art Museum, Lapua, Finland with artists Thomas Brezing, Sean Cotter and Abigail O’Brien
2011 RHA Annual, Invited, Dublin Ireland. May / June 2011
2011 The Colour Red, SOMA, Waterford City, April 2011
2011 The Colour Blue, SOMA, Waterford City, April 2011
2010 Let Them Luv’ Cake, Cake Contemporary Arts, Old Band Hall, Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare
2010 Mirror Mirror, a selection of work from the National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, RHA, Dublin
2010 Intimacy. Das Bad in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum, Ahlen Museumsplatz 1, 59227 Ahlen, Germany
2009 (Summer Interval ’09l) & Choice: something else, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
2009 Selected, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer GMBH, Heirich- Heine- Allee 19, Düsseldorf, Germany, March – May
2009 Another Island, Contemporary Irish Art, American Irish Historical Society, New York City, U.S.A.
2008 Summer Group Show, Claremorris Gallery, Co.Mayo, September
2008 Slice 2008, Fairgreen House, Galway, June
2008 Is Mise Ireland, 411 Galleries, Xin TianDi area (Shangai) and Central Academy of Fine Art (Beijing), Spring
2007 Journeys, Castletown, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe, Leuven, Belgium
2006 Irish American Arts Award, New York, September; Award winner.
2006 Greenstar Open Exihibition 2006. Winner. Mermaid Art Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow
2006 Ten Years in the Making, Farmleigh Gallery, Castleknock, Dublin July
2006 Additions 2006, National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, Limerick University
2006 Royal Hibernian Academy annual May ’06. Invited
2005 Artforum, Berlin, Paris Photo, Cologne Art Fair
2005 Eurojet Futures An Anthology, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, July
2005 Test Tube, Commission for Teagasc, Biotechnology Building, Oak Park, Co. Carlow
2005 Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, November
2005 Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, October
2005 Artforum, Berlin, September
2003 Arrival, Waterford Hospital, December
2003 Basel Art Fair, Switzerland, June
2003 Hugh Lane, M.A. National College of Art & Design group show
2003 Loosing it, Fenton Gallery, Cork, March
2002 The Leabhar Mór exhibition, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, October
2002 Crawford Open 2, Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, December – January 2002
2002 Vacationland, Westbourne Studios,Portabello, London, December – March 2002
2002 From past to present, Art of the State, 1815 – 2001, Draíocht, Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin 15, September; Dungarvan Art Centre, Wexford Colllege; Enniskillen Castle Museum, Northern Ireland; Co.Londonderry; Atrium, O.P.W. St.Stephens Green, Dublin.
2002 Vacationland, Arthouse, Templebar, Dublin June
2002 Eurojet futures 01, Royal Hibernian Accadamy, Ely Place, Dublin 2, June
2002 Zwischenraum 4, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer,Muhlengasse 3, Dusseldorf.
2000 Series, Elkedsoscher Galleries, Hamburg, December
2000 Cologne Art, Cologne October
2000 Zwischen Raum, Galerie Seitz & Partner, Wieldstr. 34, Berlin, February
1999 How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb with Abigail O Brien, Cologne Art, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, November
1999 How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb with Abigail O Brien, Artforum, Berlin c/o Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer,
1999 Dusseldorf, September
1999 Black Sole Bonne Femme, Perspective ’99, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
1999 How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb with Abigail O’Brien, EV+A reduced, City Art Gallery, Limerick
1998 Baby Blue, Perspective ’98, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
1998 Pure Blue, Festival Revue, Edinburgh Festival