May 16, 2023, 6pm-8pm
Chicago, USA

The Awi’nakola art team including Rande Cook, Lindsay Delaronde, Kelly Richardson and Paul Walde will share working processes and work-in-progress at the Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, co-hosted by curator Stephanie Smith and the Gray Center’s Zachary Cahill. Free and open to the public!

Interview and article
April 7, 2023

CBC As It Happens interviews Kelly Richardson and Setta Studio (Director, Tim Saccenti and curator, Dina Chang) about the inclusion of her art in Metallica’s title track music video for 72 Seasons, and worldwide cinema screening.

Filmed in Los Angeles, CA, on Feb 12, 2023
Video Premiere Date: March 30, 2023

3 of Kelly Richardson’s works including Origin Stories, Origin Stories (AR) and HALO (III) were featured in Metallica’s music video for the title track off of their new album and film entitled ’72 Seasons’, and part of a global premiere in cinemas in 81 countries.

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.

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’ 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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

Exploring our relationship with nature; Kamloops Art Gallery presents ‘Halcyon Fog’
Aired: February, 2022

Curator Charo Neville takes us on a tour of Kelly Richardson’s solo exhibition at the KAG which presents still and moving image works which draw attention to our relationship with nature and how it relates to climate change.

Aired: Feb 3, 2022

Kamloops Art Gallery curator Charo Neville gives CBC Radio a tour of Kelly Richardson’s largest Canadian solo exhibition ‘Halcyon Fog’.

Listen here and visit through April 2, 2022!

Art Basel Miami
Humans + Machines: NFTs and the Ever-Evolving World of Art
Published: Dec 2, 2021

Featuring generative and NFT artists such as Helena Sarin, Kevin Abosch, Matt Deslauriers, and Kelly Richardson, among others, the show will put one of the art world’s hottest phenomenons front and center for the first time at the fair.

Published Nov 16, 2021

How should we relate to nature? As recently as fifty years ago the anthropocentric way of looking purely through the lens of human outcomes was the mainstream assumption, at least in western traditions. Yet the growing consensus around the effect of a history of exploiting and abusing nature has altered how we see the relationship.

Published: April, 2021

The FEN is a coordinated CleanNFT drop initiated by curator Juliette Bibasse, visual artist Joanie Lemercier and more than 35 pioneering digital media artists in response to the outrageous greenhouse-gas emissions of CryptoArt releases on the Ethereum blockchain (PoW).

Published: Dec 11, 2020

Art is a powerful way to start conversations about the climate. A new show at York Art Gallery, part of York Mediale 2020, uses new technologies to show how the human body is inextricably linked to nature.

Release date: August 2020

‘For The Benefit Of All’ is a limited edition double LP by British musicians Tom Morris & Jo Quail which was inspired by Kelly Richardson’s video installation ‘Mariner 9’.

Vancouver Island’s ancient rainforests are under threat. This artist is making them into magic.

Anxious, strained, uneasy…
Review by Aidan Dunne
Sept 4, 2018

Into the Woods
Review by John Luna
June 6, 2018

Arc Poetry Magazine
Fall/Winter issue 2016-2017
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