BIOGRAPHY Kelly Richardson (Burlington, Ontario, Canada, 1972) studied fine art at the Ontario College of Art & Design (AOCAD with honours, 1996) and media studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (MFA studies, 2003). She represented Canada at the first Beijing 798 Biennale (2009), Busan Biennale (2008), Gwangju Biennale (2004) and her work was included in the Sundance Film Festival (2009) and Le Mois de la Photo a Montréal (2008). She has exhibited internationally at various important museums and publics institutions including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in an exhibition entitled The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image (which will travel to La Caixa, Barcelona in 2011), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Art Gallery of Ontario, Centre Georges Pompidou. Her work is represented in the public collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, USA), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Montréal, Canada), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada) and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC, USA). She was shortlisted for the Sobey’s Art Award - Canada’s $70,000 preeminent award for contemporary art - two years running in 2008 and 2009 and she had the honour of being the featured artist at the Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards 2009. The 2009 fall issue of Canadian Art magazine included Kelly Richardson as one of '10 artists setting the pace of contemporary art'. She lives and works in the United Kingdom where she is currently producing two new video installations and a series of photographs. One of the video installations entitled The Erudition will premiere in three Canadian provinces simulatneously beginning this December/January, 2010-11. Following these exhibitions, Kelly Richardson will be international artist in residence at Artpace (San Antonio, Texas) from January - March, 2011 to produce additional new work which will culminate in a two month long exhibition. |
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| REPRESENTATION | ||||
| Birch Libralato, Toronto, Canada | ||||
EDUCATION |
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| Nova Scotia College of Art and Design - MFA, Media Arts program, 2002-2003 | ||||
| Ontario College of Art and Design - AOCAD with honours, 1993-1997 | ||||
| Sheridan College - Art Fundamentals Intensive Program - Diploma, 1993 | ||||
SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS (* indicates publication, orange text links to related articles) |
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| 2011 | Artpace, Kelly Richardson (tba), San Antonio, Texas, USA* | |||
| SAAG, Kelly Richardson (tba), Lethbridge, Alberta * | ||||
| Yukon Art Centre, Kelly Richardson (tba), Whitehorse, Yukon | ||||
| 2010 | Birch Libralato, The Erudition, Toronto, Canada | |||
| Diverseworks/Aurora Picture Show, Fotofest 2010 Biennial: Twilight Avenger, Houston, Texas | ||||
| 2009 | Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Kelly Richardson, Montréal, Quebec | |||
| Screening, Kelly Richardson: Twilight Avenger, Philadelphia, USA | ||||
| 126, Kelly Richardson: Twilight Avenger, Galway, Ireland | ||||
| Definitely Superior, Twilight Avenger, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada | ||||
| 2008 | Pace Digital Gallery, Mark Napier and Kelly Richardson, curated by Jillian Macdonald, New York, NY | |||
| Birch Libralato, Twilight Avenger, Toronto, Canada (Globe and Mail review, Now Magazine review, Akimblog review) | ||||
| HALLWALLS, The Edge of Everything, curated by John Massier, Buffalo, USA (catalogue essay) * | ||||
| KW|AG, Forest Park, curated by Crystal Mowry, Kitchener, Canada (catalogue interview) * | ||||
| 2007 | Articule, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2007:Replaying Narrative, curated by Marie Fraser, Montreal, Canada * | |||
| 2006 | Birch Libralato, Exiles of the Shattered Star, Toronto, Canada (Globe and Mail review, Toronto Star review) | |||
| 2004 | Arts Council England, howthedevil, Newcastle, UK | |||
| Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Photopolis Photo Biennial: Future Perfect, curated by Bob Bean, Halifax, Canada * | ||||
| Cornerhouse / BBC, Bigger Picture: howthedevil, Manchester, UK | ||||
| Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Wagons Roll, Chicago, USA | ||||
| 2002 | Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Canada [2 person] | |||
| Hamilton Artist's Inc., Intersections, Hamilton, Canada [2 person] | ||||
| 2001 | Floating Gallery, Picture This, Winnipeg, Canada | |||
| 2000 | Mercer Union Center for Contemporary Art, Kelly Richardson, Toronto, Canada * | |||
| Platform Gallery, Jello, Melbourne, Australia | ||||
| Red Head Gallery Showcase, Birdhouse, curated by Jenifer Papararo, Toronto, Canada | ||||
| 1998 | .in/attendant. Gallery, Mimic, Toronto, Canada | |||
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (* indicates publication, orange text links to related articles) |
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| 2011 | CaixaForum, The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image - Dreams, organised by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, curated by Kerry Brougher and Kelly Gordon, Barcelona, Spain * | |||
| 2010 | White Box, THE WASTE LAND, curated by Raul Zamudio, New York, New York | |||
| Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Last Frontier, curated by Sarah Fillmore, Halifax, Nova Scotia | ||||
| Art Gallery of Ontario, Sculpture on Time: Major works. New Acquisitions, Toronto, Canada | ||||
| Islip Art Museum, Site Specifics '10, curated by Karen Shaw, Long Island, New York | ||||
| Birch Libralato, Essential Works Show V 1989-2009, Toronto, Canada | ||||
| 2009 | Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier on Main, curated by Shari Frilot, Utah, USA * | |||
| Beijing 798 Biennale, Constellations, curated by Raul Zamudio, Beijing, China * | ||||
| Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Forces of Nature, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | ||||
| Confederation Centre of the Arts, Other Worlds, curated by Ihor Holubizsky, P.E.I, Canada * | ||||
| Cambridge Galleries, Sobey Art Award: Ontario Shortlist, curated by Ivan Jurakic, Canada | ||||
| Ed Video, Year of Darwin, curated by Scott McGovern, Guelph, Canada * | ||||
| Blackwood Gallery, Nuit Blanche: Drop Out, curated by Christof Migone, Toronto, Canada | ||||
| 2008 | Busan Biennale, Expenditure, South Korea * | |||
| Kulturzentrum K4, Out of Darkness, curated by Paul Rooney, Nurnberg, Germany | ||||
| Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image - Part 1: Dreams, curated by Kerry Brougher and Kelly Gordon, Washington, USA * | ||||
| 2007 | Berwick Film and Media Festival, Film on Film, curated by Iain Pate and Rebecca Shatwell, Berwick, UK * | |||
| Urban Screens Manchester, Otherworldly, curated by Michelle Kasprzak, Manchester, UK | ||||
| The Big Screen/Federation Square, curated by Michelle Kasprzak, Melbourne, Australia | ||||
| 2006 | Tank TV, Video Calendar, tank.tv | |||
| Castlefield Gallery, Beta Test: Purescreens 16, curated by Sophia Crilly, Manchester, UK | ||||
| The Nunnery, Visions at the Nunnery, London, UK | ||||
| 2005 | Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Thinking the Unthinkable - or - Against Nature, curated by Alistair Robinson, Sunderland, UK * | |||
| Berwick International Film Festival / The Big M, Crossing Borders, curated by Marcus Coates, Berwick, UK | ||||
| Out of Darkness, series of screenings throughout the UK, curated by Paul Rooney, UK | ||||
| Andreas Koch - Temporary, Berlin, Germany | ||||
| MSVU Art Gallery, Free Sample, curated by Kelly Mark, Halifax, Nova Scotia * | ||||
| 2004 | Gwangju Biennale: A grain of dust, a drop of water, curated by Yongwoo Lee, Kerry Brougher and Milena Kalinovska (for the Americas), Gwangju, South Korea * | |||
| An Tuireann Arts Centre, DRIFT, curated by Iliyana Nedkova, initiated by New Media Scotland, Isle of Skye, Scotland | ||||
| The Museum of Voivodina , DRIFT, curated by Iliyana Nedkova, initiated by New Media Scotland, Isle of Skye, Scotland | ||||
| SESC Vila Mariana, Imagens que voce jamais verá na TV, Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||||
| Stills Gallery / Edinburgh Film Festival, DRIFT, curated by Iliyana Nedkova, initiated by New Media Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||
| Chaingmai University Art Museum, Switch Media Festival "Supernatural", Bangkok, Thailand * | ||||
| Robert Birch Gallery, Worts: Another Dimension, Toronto, Canada | ||||
| 2003 | Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada | |||
| 2002 | Art Gallery of Ontario, Provisional Worlds, curated by Jessica Bradley, Toronto, Canada * | |||
| Islip Art Museum, Accumulations, Long Island, curated by Karen Shaw, New York, USA * | ||||
| Pompidou Centre, Polyphonix 40, Paris, France | ||||
| 2001 | Art Gallery of Ontario, Video Primer, curated by Michelle Jacques, Toronto, Canada * | |||
| Huashan Art District, Orange Marble, curated by Manray Hsu, Taipei, Taiwan (Taipei Times) * | ||||
| 2000 | Smack Mellon, White Hot, curated by Regine Basha and Moukhtar Kocach, Brooklyn, New York | |||
| Galerie SKOL, Companie, curated by Sally McKay & Daniel Olson, Montreal, Quebec * | ||||
| 1999 | HALLWALLS, Phenotypology, curated by Maureen McQuillan, Buffalo, New York * | |||
| Robert Birch Gallery, here, curated by Michelle Jacques, Toronto, Canada | ||||
| Cold City Gallery, Video Survey, curated by Pamela Meredith, Toronto, Canada | ||||
| YYZ Artists' Outlet, XXYYZ, Toronto, Canada | ||||
| Koffler Center for the Arts, Loggia Gallery, Edge of Everything, curated by John Massier, North York, Canada | ||||
| Cold City Gallery, Invitational, Toronto, Canada | ||||
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
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| Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA | ||||
| Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada | ||||
| Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC , USA | ||||
| KW|AG, Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada (upcoming commission) | ||||
| Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada | ||||
SELECTED CATALOGUES / EXHIBITION BROCHURES (orange text links to related articles) |
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| Zamudio, Raul, catalogue text for "Beijing 798 Biennale", Beijing, China, August 10 - September 28, 2009 | ||||
| Jun, Seung-Bo, catalogue essay for "Busan Biennale 2008", Busan, South Korea, Sept 6 - Nov 15, 2008 | ||||
| Gordon, Kelly and Kerry Brougher, catalogue essay for "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Feb. 14 - May 14, 2008 | ||||
| Massier, John, catalogue essay for "The Edge of Everything" (featured in the Forest Park catalogue and The Edge of Everything exhibition brochure). January 11 - March 23, 2008 | ||||
| Mowry, Crystal, catalogue interview for "Forest Park" at the KW|AG, Kitchener, Canada, January 11 - March 23, 2008 | ||||
| Fraser, Marie , catalogue essay for "Replaying Narrative, Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal", Montreal, Quebec, Sept - Oct, 2007 | ||||
| Corsano, Otino, catalogue interview for "Free Sample" at the MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada, March - April, 2005 | ||||
| Robinson, Alistair, brochure essay for "Thinking the Unthinkable" at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, UK, February - April, 2005 | ||||
| Kalinovska, Milena, catalogue essay for the Gwangju Biennale, September - November, 2004 | ||||
| Shapiro, Beverly, "Kelly Richardson: Gwangju Biennale", exhibition catalogue essay for the Gwangju Biennale, September - November, 2004 | ||||
| Bean, Robert, "The Future Perfect: Geneologies of the Film-still", exhibition catalogue for the Photopolis Photo Biennial: Future Perfect, September - October, 2004 | ||||
| Bradley, Jessica, "Provisional Worlds", exhibition catalogue for the Art Gallery of Ontario. November, 2002 - March, 2003 | ||||
| Shaw, Karen, "Accumulations", exhibition catalogue for Islip Art Museum. Septemer - November, 2002 | ||||
| Hsu, Manray, "Orange Marble". exhibition brochure for Orange Marble. February, 2001 | ||||
| Jacques, Michelle. "Video Primer", exhibition brochure for the Art Gallery of Ontario. April 7, 2001 - March 24, 2001 | ||||
| Massier, John. "Kelly Richardson", Mercer Union exhibition brochure. May 25 - June 28, 2000 | ||||
| McQuillan, Maureen. "Phenotypeology", exhibition brochure for Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. April, 1999 | ||||
SELECTED REVIEWS |
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| Canadian Art Magazine, "Kelly Richardson: The Radiant Real" [feature article], David Jager, Fall issue, 2009 | ||||
| Now Magazine, "Year in Review: Top 10 Art Shows", David Jager, December 22-29, 2008 | ||||
| Vie Des Arts, "Busan Biennale 2008", [review of Busan Biennale featuring the work of Kelly Richardson], Melissa Lam, Winter issue, 2008 | ||||
| ARTFORUM, "Kelly Richardson: Birch Libralato", [review of Twlight Avenger at Birch Libralato], Dan Adler, November issue, 2008 | ||||
| Akimblog, "Kelly Richardson at Birch Libralato" [review of Twilight Avenger at Birch Libralato], Terence Dick, August 13, 2008 | ||||
| Now Magazine, "Nature's calling: Kelly Richardson questions what's real" [review of Twilight Avenger at Birch Libralato], David Jager, August 7, 2008 | ||||
| The Globe and Mail, "The Twilight Avenger is not what he seems" [review of Twilight Avenger at Birch Libralato], Gary Michael Dault, August 9, 2008 | ||||
| Border Crossings, "Landscape x 4: Geoffrey James, Alex Cameron, Jennifer Stead, Kelly Richardson", Petra Halkes, Issue No. 106, Summer, 2008 | ||||
| The Washington Diplomat, "Demented but Rewarding" [review of The Cinema Effect at the Hirshhorn Museum], Michael Coleman, April 20, 2008 | ||||
| The Washington Times, "Cinematic Visions" [review of The Cinema Effect at the Hirshhorn Museum], February 23, 2008 | ||||
| Afterimage, "Tell me a story" [review of 10th Mois de la Photo a Montreal], Lisa Hunter, vol 35, no. 4, January/February Issue, 2008 | ||||
| The Buffalo News, "An Air of mystery at Hallwalls" [review of The Edge of Everything at Hallwalls], Cynnie Gaasch, January 25, 2008 | ||||
| Artvoice, "Kelly Richardson: The Edge of Everything" [review of The Edge of Everything at Hallwalls], Lucy Yau, January 24, 2008 | ||||
| ICI Montréal, "Vitesse réduite" [review of 10th Mois de la Photo a Montreal], Lyne Crevier, September 20, 2007 | ||||
| The Globe and Mail, "A peaceful apocalypse" [review of Exiles of the Shattered Star at Birch Libralato], Gary Michael Dault, August 12, 2006 | ||||
| Toronto Star, "Fiery missiles on a restful day" [review of Exiles of the Shattered Star at Birch Libralato], Peter Goddard, August 17, 2006 | ||||
| samplesize, "Provisional Worlds", Charlene K. Lau, 2003 | ||||
| Toronto Star, "An art world made up of stuff", Peter Goddard, November 23, 2002 | ||||
| View, "Intersections", John Deal, vol.8 no.2, p 16. January, 2002 | ||||
| Taipei Times, "Artists lose their marbles" [interview with Manray Hsu about Orange Marble at Taipei Art District], Susan Kendzulak, March 11, 2001 | ||||
| Lola 6, "Birdhouse", Sally McKay, Summer, 2000 | ||||
| Lola 5, "In Studio-Kelly Richardson" Jenifer Papararo, 2000 | ||||
| The Globe and Mail, "here", Gillian MacKay, Feb.27, 1999 | ||||
HONOURS, AWARDS, RECIDENCIES |
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| Artpace International Artist in Residence selected by curator Heather Pesanti (Albright-Knox), San Antonio, Texas, 2010 | ||||
| KIAC Artist in Residence, Yukon, Canada, 2010 | ||||
| Americans for the Arts National Art Awards Featured Artist, USA, 2009 | ||||
| Sobey Art Award Long List, Canada, 2009 | ||||
| Southern Alberta Art Gallery / Gushul Artist in Residence program, Alberta, 2009 | ||||
| Arts Council England Project Award, 2009 | ||||
| Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant, 2000 | 2002 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | ||||
| Sobey Art Award Long List, Canada, 2008 | ||||
| ISIS Arts Artist in Residence program, Newcastle, UK, 2008 | ||||
| /sLab, International Artist in Residence program, Sunderland, UK, 2006 - 2007 | ||||
| Canada Council for the Arts Production Grant, 2005 | ||||
| Arts Council England Project Award, 2004 | ||||
| Nova Scotia College of Art and Design - MFA entry scholarship, 2002 | ||||
| Ontario Arts Council Project Grant, 2000 | 2001 | ||||
| Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant, 1999 | 1999 | 2000 | 2000 | ||||