Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley Mary Reid Kelley, in collaboration with her partner Patrick Kelley, combines painting, performance and a distinctive wordplay-rich poetry in her polemical, graphically stylized videos. Mary Reid Kelley (b. 1979) in Greenville, South Carolina USA, received her BFA from St. Olaf College, Minnesota, and an MFA in Painting from Yale University (2009). Resurrecting characters that embody particular facets of ideas in time, her historically specific tableaux enclose dilemmas of mortality, sex, and estrangement which are navigated by the characters in punning dialogue that traps them between tragic and comic meanings.

Reid Kelley’s work is held in public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hammer Museum Los Angeles; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; and Kadist Foundation, Paris, France.

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