WHAT'S ON
The Amelia
Kelly Richardson – Leviathan
February 3 – May 23, 2023
Tunbridge Wells, UK
Leviathan returns to the UK with a timely solo exhibition at The Amelia. The work draws on Richardson’s distinct art practice which focusses on ideas around conservation and a careful observation of the effects of humanity on the planet… The staging of Leviathan at The Amelia Scott comes at a significant time historically, in reflection of growing global climate concerns and places Tunbridge Wells once again at the centre of environmental and conservation debates.
Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art
OUTRAGEOUS
February 1 – April 30, 2023
mowna.org
On January 2nd, net.art artist Lorna Mills tweeted a list of the highest selling Tezos artists for 2022 which featured just 1 woman, along with the statement “OMFG, just loaded with women, ain’t it? Just like a goddam Lilith Fair. EXCUSE MY F*CKING PISSED OFFEDNESS.” MOWNA responds with an exhibition of over 100 emerging and established women and non-binary artists from 39 countries.
Fondation Giverny
The Erudition
On view now
Montréal, Canada
The Fondation Giverny pour l’art contemporain is pleased to present its activities with a first exhibition of works from the Giverny Capital Collection. With a selection of works and installation pieces by Eduardo Basualdo, Edward Burtynsky, Sophie Jodoin, Folkert de Jong, Adad Hannah, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Magali Reus, Kelly Richardson, Marc Séguin, Bill Viola, Hajra Waheed, this exhibition highlights the principles of temporality, memory, and the construction of the image.
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything
Feb 9, 2021 – Dec 2, 2024
online (MAC), curated by John Zeppetelli and Victor Shiffman
A veritable audiovisual immersion, this exhibition establishes a dialogue between the œuvre of Leonard Cohen and a selection of artworks from the MAC’s collection.
JUST FINISHED
Waldburger Wouters Gallery
REVENANTS
January 20 – February 20, 2023
Brussels, Belgium
A new exhibition featuring Canadian artist Kelly Richardson, Franco-Canadian artist Nicolas Sassoon and Brazilian-American artist Rick Silva. Curated by Brussels-based art space Rectangle, “Revenants” plays with ideas of scale and time as it relates to human perception and our place on this planet.
UNSIGNED
UNSIGNED
now until Dec 31, 2022
downtown LA (DTLA), USA
UNSIGNED is bringing in the new year in downtown LA (DTLA) with a video billboard featuring 100 signatures from women and non-binary artists created to reverse the ongoing negative value of the signatures through their transformation into artworks themselves. A project by Operator and Anika Meier with the support of 100 artists including Kelly Richardson, Nancy Baker Cahill, Auriea Harvey, Addie Wagenknecht, Anne Spalter, Claudia Hart, Sarah Zucker, Rhea Myers, Alexandra Crouwers, among others.
NEWS
articles, reviews, interviews, news
Rectangle (at Waldburger Wouters Gallery)
January 20 – February 20, 2023
Brussels, Belgium
Kelly Richardson, Nicolas Sassoon and Rick Silva present REVENANTS, featuring the premiere of ‘Origin Stories’. “We find ourselves in a region between Mars – a planet Richardson previously visited in the monumental installation, ‘Mariner 9’ – and Jupiter…When we return, we’re left with the realisation that while our species’ behaviour is responsible for the current global extinction event, it’s equally capable of producing uniquely imaginative visions. Art alone can’t save the world but the creation of art may very well be considered as the yin to our destructive yang.”
UNSIGNED in DTLA
now until Dec 31, 2022
downtown LA (DTLA), USA
UNSIGNED is bringing in the new year in downtown LA (DTLA) with a video billboard featuring 100 signatures from women and non-binary artists created to reverse the ongoing negative value of the signatures through their transformation into artworks themselves. A project by Operator and Anika Meier with the support of 100 artists including Kelly Richardson, Nancy Baker Cahill, Auriea Harvey, Addie Wagenknecht, Anne Spalter, Claudia Hart, Sarah Zucker, Rhea Myers, Alexandra Crouwers, among others.
ecologyst: The Awi’nakola Tree of Life Project
Kristen Bounds writes about Awi’nakola for ecologyst
Published: October 29, 2022
Comprised of artists, scientists, and Indigenous knowledge keepers coming together through the confluence of their work and research, the Awi’nakola Project is a research group working to keep the rich ecosystems of the some 2.7% of high productivity old growth left in the province intact.
Niio Art Editorial
The Role of Art in a Climate Emergency
Pau Waelder
October, 2022
Pau Waelder responds to recent events contemplating The Role of Art in a Climate Emergency through different artists lenses including Joanie Lemercier, Marina Zurkow, Tamiko Thiel, Kelly Richardson, Diane Drubay, Alexandra Crouwers, and Katie Torn.
Unsigned
‘Unsigned’ by Operator & Anika Meier
A collection of 100 artist signatures
Published: September 14, 2022
“…the addition of a woman’s signature can devalue artwork to the extent that female artists are more likely to leave their work unsigned.” (Helen Gorrill) The collection reverses the current negative value of the signatures through their transformation into artworks themselves. Unsigned is a conceptual artwork raising the symbolic and literal value of women and non-binary artists’ signatures.
CBC Radio: On The Island
In conversation with Sterling Eyford
Aired: August 15, 2022
Art in a time of climate change – CBC Radio’s Sterling Eyford in conversation with Kelly Richardson about creating art about the environment and social inequity during an environmental crisis.
Watershed Sentinel
Odette Auger reviews Halcyon Fog at KAG
Published: summer issue, 2022
Halcyon Fog is a multi-faceted, immersive exhibition with supporting speaking events. Through projections, video and digital art, the exhibit is aimed at getting viewers to think deeper about their own implication in these destructive systems, and to break the barrier between internal reactions and action.
Niio Art Interview
Pau Waelder interviews Kelly Richardson
Published: April, 2022
Beauty invites viewers to engage with otherwise very difficult subject. Tragedy in the work is located in the truth of what we’ve wrought, the conditions within which we now find ourselves, and the urgent call for us to collectively face it in order to address it. After decades of scientific warnings riddled with predictions of what life might be like in the future, our path hasn’t changed course.
Galleries West
Lyn Richards reviews Halcyon Fog at KAG
Published: March 10, 2022
Richardson points out the hubris in our fantasy of human specialness, our refusal to acknowledge we’re simply one of many species within the world’s astonishing web of life, and our denial that whatever we do to the environment, we do to ourselves as well. Richardson courts irony by turning the same digital media that potently…
