Biography of Mary Kelly - Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

: b. 1941
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

1968-1970: St Martin's School of Art, London, Postgraduate Certificate in Painting
1963-1965: Pius XII Institute, Florence, Italy, MA, Studio Art and Art History
1959-1963: College of Saint Teresa, Winona, Minnesota, BA, Art Major, Music Minor

Solo Exhibitions

2018: "Mary Kelly: Face-to-Face," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK (link)
: "Nucleus: Mary Kelly's 'Extase' and the birth of a women's art collection," New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, UK (link)
2017: "The Practical Past," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY (link)
2016: "Nightcleaners, Berwick Street Collective (Marc Karlin, Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan)," Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown
: "Mary Kelly: Early Work, 1973-76," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
: "CIRCA TRILOGY," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: “Women and Work: A Document On the Division of Labor in Industry, 1975,” Switch House Gallery, Tate Modern, London, UK
2014: "On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2012: "Mary Kelly," Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles, CA
: "Mary Kelly," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
2011: "Mary Kelly: Projects, 1973-2010," The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, curated by Maria Balshaw, Dominique Heyse-Moore, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2010: "Mary Kelly: Four Works in Dialogue," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Cecilia Widenheim
2008: "Mary Kelly: Words are Things," Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Milada Slizinska
2007: "Circa 1968," The University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, curated by Juli Carson
2006: "The Ballad of Kastriot Rekhepi," ESPACIO AV, Consejeria de Educacin y cultura, Regin de Murcia, curated by Isabel Tejeda
: "Love Songs," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005: "Love Songs," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
2004: Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City Installation, live performance and interactive archive, curated by Trisha Ziff
2003: “The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi,” including live performance and interactive archive, curated by Trish Ziff, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City
2002: The Arthur A Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
: Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001: "The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi," musical score for the exhibition by Michael Nyman; live performance by Sarah Leonard and The Nyman Quartet, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
: "Mary Kelly: Mea Culpa," Robert Sandelson, London, UK
2000: "Social Process / Collaborative Action: Mary Kelly 1970-75," Norwich Gallery and Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
1999: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
1998: "Post-Partum Document, The Complete Work 1973-79," curated by Sabine Breitweiser, The Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1997: "Social Process/Collaborative Action: Mary Kelly 1970-75," curated by Judith Mastai, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, and Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
: Galerie Paula Bottcher, Berlin, Germany
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1996: Konstmuseet, Mälmo, Sweden
: Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
1994: "Mary Kelly: 1973-89," curated by Gertrud Sandquist, Galleri F 15, Alby, Norway; traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
: Gloria Patri, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University and Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Milwaukee Art Museum, University of Wisconsin; and Konstmuseet, Malm, Sweden
1993: Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
: Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: Milwaukee Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, WI
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
1992: Gloria Patri, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University (catalog), traveled to Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
1991: Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
: Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria
: The Powerplant, Toronto, Canada
1990: "Interim, The Complete Work 1984-89," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery and The Powerplant, Toronto, Canada
1989: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: CEPA, Buffalo, NY
: Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, CA
1988: LACE, Los Angeles
1985: “Interim, Part I: Corpus,” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; traveled to Kettle’s Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge, and Riverside Studios, London, UK
1982: "Mary Kelly and Ray Barrie," George Paton Gallery, Melbourne and University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
1981: Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1979: University Gallery, Leeds, UK
: New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1977: "Post-Partum Document, I-V," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, curated by Mark Francis
1976: "Post-Partum Document, I-III," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK, curated by Barry Barker
1975: "Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labor in Industry," South London Art Gallery, UK
1970: "An Earthwork Performed," with Steven Rothenberg, New Arts Laboratory, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2019: "Mary Kelly: Peace is the Only Shelter in Desert X," Artistic Director, Neville Wakefield, Co-curators, Amanda Hunt and Matthew Schum, Coachella Valley
2018: "Nucleus: Mary Kelly’s Extase and the Birth of the Women’s Art Collection," Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
: "West By MidWest," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018-2019: "Power & Imagination," National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Australia
2018: "Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings," Tate St. Ives, UK (link)
: "Actions…the image of the world can be different," Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (link)
2017: "ISelf Collection: The End of Love," Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (link)
: “An Incomplete History of Protest,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (link)
: “Wherever the Wind Carries,” Malmö Art Academy and Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden
2016: “Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection,” Whitney Museum, New York, NY
: “Of Other Spaces: Where does gesture become event?” Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, Scotland
: “Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979,” Tate Britain, London, UK
: “A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham,” Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
2015: "A Voice Remains," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
: "The Slick and The Sticky," Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
: “The Great Mother: Women, Maternity, and Power in Art and Visual Cutlure, 1900 – 2015,” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
2014: "Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image Ideology," curated by Anne Ellegood and Johanna Burton, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Against Method," curated by Gertrud Sandqvist, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "All you need is Love," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
: "Women and Work, Mary Kelly, Margaret Harrison, Kay Hunt, BP Spotlight," Tate Britain, London, UK
2012: "Ends of The Earth: Land Art to 1974," co-curated by Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: "This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s," curated by Helen Molesworth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: "Breaking In Two: Pacific Standard Time," curated by Bruria Finkel, Arena 1, Los Angeles, CA
: "Art as Idea, Language and Process in Art," curated by Cecilia Widenheim, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: "Tracing the Century: Drawing from the Tate Collection," Liverpool Tate, London, UK
: "Left, Right, Center," Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
: "Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: "The Hidden Mother," Berthe Morrisot Hotel Particlier, Paris, France
: "Sweethearts: Artist Couples," curated by Kathy Battista, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
: "Family Matters: The Family in British Art," Tate Britain, London, UK; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Millennium Gallery, Museum Sheffield; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK
: "About Menocchio we know many things," Betonsalon, Paris, France
2011: "The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1992," co-curated by Nancy Princenthal and Helaine Posner, Nuerberger Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveled to Nasher Museum, North Carolina; traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
: "The Experimental Impulse: Pacific Standard Time," co-organized by Thomas Lawson and Aram Moshayedi, Redcat: Roy and Edna Disney Hall/Cal Arts Theater, Los Angeles, CA
: "Colorific," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: "Holding the Grey Card," The New Hall Art Collection Biennale, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, MA
: "Incognito," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010: "The Artists Museum," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Incognito," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Panorama: Los Angeles at ARCOmadrid 2010," co-curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Christopher Miles,
: Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Is Only the Mind Allowed to Wander?," Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
: "Torrent of Words: Contemporary Art and Language," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheybogen, WI
: "IASPIS," Open House, Stockholm, Sweden
2009: "British Subjects: Identity and Self Fashioning, 1967-2009," curated by Louise Yelin, Nueberger Museum of Art, New York, NY
: "The Moving Image, Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Love in the Age of Postponed Democracy," The Critical Crisis, curated by Lilian Fellman, Kunsthalle Luzerne, Switzerland
: "Mary Kelly, Christian Capurro, Klaus Mosettig," Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
2008: "Sydney Biennale: Revolutions Forms That Turn," curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
: 2008 California Biennial, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; installation, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
: "Not Quite How I Remember It," The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: "Mother Cuts: experiments in film and video," The Visual Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
: "Coup de Grace," Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
: "Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art," CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, New York, NY
2007: Documenta 12, Kassel, curated by Roger Buergel and Ruth Noack; installations, Neue Gallerie and Aue Pavillion; happening, Bergpark Wilhelmshhe
: "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," curated by Cornelia Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: "Past Over," Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Batallia Dos Xeneros," curated by Juan Vicente Aliaga, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea,Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," Arte Eta Feminismoaren 45 Urte, 45 Anos de Arte y Feminismo / 45 Years of Art and Feminism, curated by Xabier Arakistain, Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts, Spain
: "Read Me! Text in Art," curated by Malik Gaines, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "Nina in Position," curated by Jeffery Uslip; Artists Space, New York, NY
2006: "Full House: Video of the Whitneys Collection at 75," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Civil Restitutions," curated by Jeffrey Uslip and Simon Preston, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
: "Academy," Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
: "State of Emergency," election night screening, Alias, New York, NY
: "Concept Has Never Meant Horse," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "The Look of the Law," curated by Simon Leung, University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, CA
: "Technologized Bodies/ Embodied Technologies, Art Interactive," College Art Association, Cambridge, MA
: "Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection," Longsdale Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, London, UK
: "Sixteen Tons," curated by Michael Darling, New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, University of California Los Angeles, CA
: "How To Improve the World: British Art 1946-2006," Hayward Gallery, London, UK
: "Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain 1929 to Now," (Berwick Street Film Collective),curator, Tanya Barson, Liverpool Tate, London, UK
2005: "Occupying Space: Generali Foundation Collection," Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museum Borjmans van Beuningen, Nederlands Fotomuseum and Witte de with, Rotterdam
: Selected Works From The Collection, Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, CO
: "Work/Labor," curated by Silvia Eiblmayr, Galerie in Taxipalais, Tirol, Austria; traveled to Centroa Andaluz de Arte Contemporanea, Sevilla, Spain
: "At the Mercy of Others," The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY
: "Family," The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
: "Mixed-up Childhood," Auckland City Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand
2004: 2004 Whitney Biennial, curated by Debra Singer, Shamim Momin, Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "100 Artists See God," curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL; traveled to The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (2005); Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, VA (2005)
: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: "Maternal Metaphors," The Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
: "Dass die Krper sprechen, auch das wissen wir seit," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "The Shadow of Production," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2003: "Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism," curated by Pamela Auchingeloss and Klaus Ottmann, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; DePauw University Art Gallery, Greencastle, IN
: "Identitt schreiben Autobiographie in der Kunst," curated by Hemma Schmutz, Galerie Fűr Zeitgenossische, Leipzig, Germany
: "Works from the Permanent Collection," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in US Art of the 1980s," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
: "Intimates," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: "Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s," White Columns, New York; traveled to The Galleries, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
: "Self Evident: The Artist as the Subject," Tate Britain, London, UK
: "On General Release: Artists and Film in Britain, 1968-1972," curated by Lynda Morris and David Curtis, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK; John Hansard Gallery, The University, Highfield Southampton; George Rodger Gallery, KIAD, Maidstone; Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge, MA
: "Fetish: Art and the Word," UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2001: "Works From the Collection," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "Visual Worlds," Richard L Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
: "The Presence of Absence," Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
: "Camera Women," curated by Carol Armstrong, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
: "Recent Acquisitions: Photograph Works," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2000: "Die verletzte Diva," curated by Silvia Eiblmayr, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Kunstverein,Munich, Siemens Kulturprogramm, Stdtische Galerie, Munich, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
: "Tempus Fugit," curated by Jan Schall, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
: "Around 1984," curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
: "Carnival in the Eye of the Storm," Phillip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
: "Dairy," Cornerhouse, Manchester, Firstsite and The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, UK
: "Les Semiophores," curated by Philippe Mouillon, Faade of the Town Hall, Lyon, France
: "Nude / Body / Action," curated by Iwona Blazwick, The Tate Modern, London, UK
: "Snapshot," The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
: "Minimal Politics: Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
: Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75, Whitechapel Gallery, London; traveled to Museu Do Chiado, Lisbon
: Artworkers, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, and Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK
1999: The American Century: Arts & Culture 1900-2000 Part II, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Einbliche in Die Sammlung, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
: Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s - 1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveled to The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to MIT Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA (2000)
: La Mmoire, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Laurence Boss, Academie de France, Rome, Italy
: Xmas Xhibition, curated by Andrea Frank, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
: Sotheby's 8th Biennial Exhibition and Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998: Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion, curated by Peter Wollen, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
: Works from the Permanent Collection, curated by John Pultz, The Spencer Museum, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS
: Works from the Permanent Collection, curated by Elizabeth Sussman and Eugene Tsai, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: 1950 Gallery, Independent Curators Incorporated Biennial, New York, NY
: Sculpture Urbaine, Grenoble, Pacaembu Stadium Facade Project, Sao Paolo, Brazil
: The Older Body, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
: Heaven - Private View, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
1997: Critical Images, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
: Minimal Politics: Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, curated by Maurice Berger, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
: A Gift for India, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, New Delhi, India
: Ten Years of Collecting: 1987 1997, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada
1996: Making Pictures: Women and Photography, Part II, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
: Baby Exhibition, Part I, 1708 Gallery, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, FL; traveled to Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
: NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebk, Denmark
: Body as Membrane, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
: Documents, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebk, Denmark
: Sexual Politics, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
: Laughter Ten Years After, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
1995: Temporarily Possessed, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
: The Division of Labour: Women and Work, Museum of Contemporary of Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to The Bronx Museum, New York, NY
: Social Strategies in the 1970's, The Tate Gallery, London, UK
: Desiring Authors, Enveloping Myths, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
: Works by Artists in the New Museum Semi-Permanent Collection, Salon of Rebecca Cooper, New York, NY
: Anti-Slogans, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, UK
: Laughter Ten Years After, The Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT; traveled to Houghton House Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva
: Auf den Leib Geschrieben, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
: Ciphers of Identity, Art Museum, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL
: The Masculine Masquerade, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1994: Written/Spoken/Drawn in Lacanian Ink, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
: Nine Months, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
: Ciphers of Identity, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
: Mistaken Identities, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
: Voicing Today's Visions, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York, NY
: One Hundred Hearts Benefit, The Contemporary, New York, NY
1993: Camera Politic, curated by Carlo Frua and Joyce Nereaux, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; traveled to La Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
: Empty Dress, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; traveled to Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; University Gallery, University of North Texas; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada; The Gallery/Stratford, Ontario, Canada; Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design
: I am the Enunciator, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
: Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
: Abjection in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
: Contacts/Proofs, Jersey City Museum 
: Ciphers of Identity, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
: Benefit Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Benefit Exhibition, Blast Magazine, New York, NY
: Benefit Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1992: Mis/taken Identities, University Art Museum, Santa Barbar, CA; traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Neues Museum Weserburgh Bremen im Forum Langenstrasse, Bremen, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
: The Spatial Drive, Blast, Contributor, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Cross Section, The World Financial Center, New York, NY
: So Order So Nicht Sein, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
: Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh, PA
: Womens Art at New Hall, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
1991: Works from the Permanent Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: 1991 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: The Realm of the Coin, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
: Gender and Representation, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania University, PA
: Shocks to the System, The South Bank Centre, London, UK; traveled to Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Switzerland; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; City Museum Plymouth; Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayre
1990: Inquiries-Language in Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; traveled to McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay; Laurentian University Museum and Arts Center, Sudbury; Rodman Hall Arts Center, St Catherines
: The Decade Show, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
: Word as Image-American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; traveled to Oklahoma City Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
: In Her Image, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York , NY
1989: Fashioning Feminine Identities, University Gallery, Essex 
1988: Modes of Address, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York, NY
: Mixed Meaning, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
1987: Conceptual Clothing, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, AL; traveled to Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston; Peterborough City Museum and Art Gallery; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Spacex Gallery Exeter; Camden Arts Center, London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, State of the Art, Tour: The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
: The British Edge, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: Propositions: Work from the Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
: Aspects of Voyeurism, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY 
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: State of the Art,(exhibition, book, and television series), Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1986: The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire and Everyday Life, Artist's Space, New York, NY
: Identity/Desire: Representing the Body, Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; traveled to Crawford Center for the Arts, St Andrews; McLaurin Art Gallery
: Electro-media, Public Access Project, Toronto, Canada
1984: Difference, curated by Katherine Linker, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; traveled to The Renaissance Society; University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, MA
: The Critical Eye/I, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (Mary Kelly, the complete Post-Partum Document), Victor Burgin, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, David Tremlet
: The British Art Show, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Tour: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Southhampton Art Gallery
1983: The Revolutionary Power of Woman's Laughter, Protetch-McNeil, New York; traveled to Art Culture Resource Center, Toronto, Canada; Washington College Art Gallery, Maryland
1982: The 4th Biennale of Sydney, Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
: Sense and Sensibility, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
1981: Typisch Frau, Bonner Kunstverein and Gallery Magers, Bonn, Germany
: 9th Kracow Meetings, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Kracow 
: Touring Exhibition, Greater London Arts Association
1980: Issue, curated by Lucy Lippard, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1979: Un Certain Art Anglais, ARCII, Museum d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
: Europa '79, Heztler, Muller & Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
: Feministische Kunst Internationaal, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands; traveled to de Oosterpoort, Groningen; Nooedbrabants Museum, Den Bosch; de Vleeshal, Middleburgh; Le Vest, Alkmar; de Beyerd, Buda; Nijmeegs Museum, Nijmegen
: Both Sides Now, Artmesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
: Verbiage, Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge
: “Art, Politics, and Ideology,” Dartington College of Art, Devon, UK
1978: Art for Society, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Ulster Museum, Belfast
: The Hayward Annual, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1977: Radical Attitudes to the Gallery, Art Net, London, UK
1975: “Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry,” South London Art Gallery, London, UK
: Sexuality and Socialization, Northern Arts Gallery, Newcastle, UK
: Independent Filmmakers Festival, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
1974: Women's Workshop/Artists Union, Arts Meeting Place, London, UK
1970: Group Exhibition, St Martin's School of Art Gallery, London, UK

Selected Press

2019: Cascone, Sarah. "The Desert X Biennial Opens in the Coachella Valley With Art Scattered Across 55 Miles," Artnet, February 8 (link)
: Sussman, Anna Louie. "The Challenges Female Artists Face Mid-Career," January 11 (link)
2018: Rea, Naomi and Kate Brown. "Who Shops at Frieze London? We Buttonholed Rose McGowan, Bob Rennie, and Other Power Players at the Fair," Artnet News (web), October 5 (link)
: "Revisiting the Fiercely Productive Practices of Marginalized Women Artists," Frieze (web), October 1 (link)
: Sussman, Anna Louie. "The Art Market Is Finally Catching up with Strong Female Artists It Ignored," Artsy, October 5 (link)
: "Must See: Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Face-to-Face," ArtForum, Fall (link)
: Fowler, Susanne, " ‘Social Work’ Provides Visibility for Women Artists at Frieze London," New York Times (web), October 1 (link)
: Buck, Louisa. "Social work: eight dissenting female artists feature in Frieze London's new section," The Art Newspaper (web), October 4 (link)
: Bromwich, Kathryn, "Mary Kelly: ‘All borders are anathema to art’" Guardian (web), September 15 (link)
: Kelly, Mary. "Women in the Arts: Mary Kelly," Frieze (web), October 2 (link)
: Black, Holly. "Five Pioneering Female Artists Who Changed the Landscape of the Art World," Another Magazine, October 8 (link)
2017: Greenberger, Alex. " Getty Research Institute Acquires Mary Kelly Archive," ArtNews, December 13 (link)
: Finkel, Jori. "Art Lurks in an Unlikely Place for Mary Kelly: the Dryer," New York Times, October 21 (link)
2016: Petty, Felix. "mary kelly, the feminist who revolutionised conceptual art," i-D, April 18 (link)
: Cotter, Holland. "Frieze New York, a Visual Circus Under the Big Top," New York Times, May 5 (link)
: Gottschalk, Molly. "A Donkey and Damien Hirst Dominated Frieze New York’s Fast-Paced Opening Day," Artsy, May 5 (link)
: Buck, Louisa. "Frieze New York 2016 highlights," The Telegraph, May 5 (link)
: Dolfi Agostini, Sara. "A Frieze New York l'arte contemporanea rivela la sua forza," Arteconomy24, May 11 (link)
: Kelly, Mary. "Mary Kelly," Artforum, Summer
: Farago, Jason. "Frieze New York review – art world displays its best face and a fine ass," The Guardian, May 5 (link)
2015: Fowler, William. "10,000 revolutions: meet Mary Kelly, the mother of all feminist artists," The Guardian, (link)
2014: Castle, Jack. Review of Mary Kelly: On the passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery," Aesthetica, September 21 (link)
: Nagesh, Ashitha. "Mary Kelly at Pippy Houldsworth," Artforum, September
: "The Feminist Critique: Mary Kelly’s Project-Based Works at Art Basel," Artsy, June 12 (link)
: Bryan-Wilson, Julia. "Women and Work," Artforum, May (link)
2012: Winant, Carmen. "Mary Kelly, Postmasters Gallery" Frieze, June/July/August
: Richard, Frances. "Mary Kelly, Postmasters Gallery," Artforum, May (link)
: Wyma, Chloe. "23 Questions for Conceptual Artist Mary Kelly," Blouin Art Info, March 5 (link)
2011: Noble, Kathy. "Mary Kelly," Frieze, June 1 (link)
: O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. "Interview: Mary Kelly," Artforum, February 18 (link)
2007: White, Ian. "The Body Politic," Frieze, May (link)
: Knight, Christopher. "An abundance of insights: It's difficult to take in MOCA's sprawling `WACK!' exhibition on one visit, but here are three reasons to return," Los Angeles Times, April 29 (link)
1999: Cotter, Holland. "ART IN REVIEW; Mary Kelly -- 'Mea Culpa,'" New York Times, April 9
1994: Ayerza, Josefina. "Gloria Patri: Mary Kelly interviewed by Josefina Ayerza," Flash Art, May 2

Publications

2018: Lamm, Kammy. "Addressing the other woman: Textual correspondences in feminist art and writing," Manchester University Press
2017: Nacking, Åsa, Emil Nilsson, and Gertrud Sandqvist, “Whither the Winds,” Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden
: Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson, "Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith and Watson Autobiography Studies Reader," Michigan Publishing, Ann Arbor, MI
2016: Nixon, Mignon, “October Files: Mary Kelly,” MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (link)
2012: Widenheim, Cecilia and Ruth Noack, “Dialogue – On the Politics of Voice,” Iaspis, Stockholm
: McCloskey, Paula, “Studies in the Maternal,” Birkbeck University, London
: Smith, Terry, “Contemporary Art: World Currents,” Laurence King Publishing and Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey
: Mesch, Claudia, “Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change after 1945,” I.B. Tauris, London
: Yuen-Yi, Lo, “Drawing the Writing,” Kubrick, Hong Kong
1992: “The Spatial Drive, BLAST,” Pocket Dictionary, New Museum, New York
: “Gloria Patri,” (catalog), Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University
: "AM LIT,” Neue Literatur aus den USA, Edition Druckhaus III, Berlin, Germany
: "Vag Document I,” Vancouver Art Gallery, June 1989
: "Now Time No 2,” Art Press, DAP Publications
: "Follow Me" (white t-shirt with black ink, L, XL), Artists Space, New York
: Harrison, Charles and Paul Wood, “Art in Theory: An Anthology of Sources on Art Theory in the 20th Century,” Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge, MA
1991: "Interim Part I Supplication," Social Text No 28 (cover)
: “The Female Body,” an anthology of MQR (Michigan Quarterly Review) publications, The University of Michigan Press
: Donald, James "Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory,” St Martin's Press, New York, NY
: Turyn, Anne, "Pecunia Olet," City Lights Books, San Francisco
1990: "Interim,’ The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: "instabili,” La Galerie Powerhouse, Centre d'information Artexte, Montreal, Canada
1989: Forman, Frieda, "Taking Our Time,” Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK
: “Between Signifiers: A Report by the Participants on The Critical Practice of Art,” a summer intensive held at the Simon Fraser University Centre for the Arts
: Mulvey, Laura, “Visual and Other Pleasures,” University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, IN
: Pollock, Griselda, “Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and the Histories of Art,” Routledge, London, UK
1987: Parker & Pollock, "Framing Feminism,” Pandora Press, London, UK
: Nairne, Sandy, “State of the Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980’s,” Chatto and Windus, London, UK
1986: “Interim,” Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh; Riverside Studios, London; Kettles Yard, Cambridge University
: Foster, Hal, “Endgame: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1985: “Menace,” Talking Back to the Media, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Appignanesi, Lisa, "Woman-Desire-Image," ICA Documents, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1984: "The Critical Eye/I,” Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
: Wallis, Brian, "Art After Modernism,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, DR Godine, Boston
: Foster, Hal, “The Anti-Aesthetic,” Bay Press, Seattle, WA
: Lippard, Lucy, “Get the Message,” E.P. Dutton, New York
1983: “Post-Partum Document,” Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
1982: Sense and Sensibility, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK
1981: Parker, Rozsika and Griselda Pollock, “Old Mistress: Women, Art, and Ideology,” Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
1980: "Post-Partum Document,” Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
: “Art and Politics,” Winchester School of Art Press  1977
: Brighton and Morris, "Towards Another Picture,” Midland Group, Nottingham
1976: “Post-Partum Document,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Grants, Awards, and Residencies

2018: Honorary Doctorate, Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland
2017: Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University, Sweden
2015: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2012: Anonymous Was a Woman Award
: The Distinguished Artists’ Interviews, College Art Association
2004: Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Wolverhampton, England
2001: Council on Research Award, University of California, Los Angeles
1998: Council on Research Award, University of California, Los Angeles
1987: National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship
1985: New Hall, Cambridge University, Artist-in-Residence Award
1980: Greater London Arts Association Visual Arts Award
1979: Hans Jorgen Muller Award, Europa 79, Stuttgart
1978: Lina Garnade Memorial Foundation Award
1977: Arts Council of Great Britain Visual Arts Award
1973: Greater London Arts Association Fellowship

Collections

: Arts Council of Great Britain
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
: Australian National Gallery
: Burger Collection, Zurich, Switerland
: Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
: Centre Pompidou Foundation, Paris, France
: Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, CO
: Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
: Helsinki City Art Museum , Finland
: Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, NY
: Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
: Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
: Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
: Museum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
: New Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
: New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: Progressive Corporation
: Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX
: Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
: Tate Britain, London, UK
: Tate Modern, London, UK
: Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
: Weil, Gotshal and Manges Collection 
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
: Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK