Mary Kelly has won many awards, including recently Artlinks award 2007 and the Irish American Arts award 2006. Her films have been screened at amongst others, NYU Tish School of the Arts, Cantor Film Centre New York and B.B.C. Short Film Festival, UCI Leicester Square London. She is widely collected and is included in both the Microsoft and Goldman Sachs collections.
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Education
2001-03 M.A. Fine Art, N.C.A.D.Thomas St. Dublin
1997-98 Film Degree, Dunlaoghaire College of Art & Design 1st class honours
1992-97 Dunlaoghaire College of Art & Design, Diploma in Fine Art, A.C.C.S (Distinction) 1974-77 University College Dublin, B.A. Psychology & Philosophy
Solo Exhibitions
2010
asylum, video installation, International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership Conference, Republic of Ireland, May 2010
2009
Father and Child, New Work, Royal Hibernian Acadamy, Dublin. July 29th – December ‘09
2008
Clay, Claremorris Gallery, Claremorris, Co. Mayo
2007
Under Construction, Hoarding Installation at site of new County Arts Centre, commissioned by South County Council as part of Fused ’07 June – duration of hoarding.
Pillars I, Mermaid Art Center, Bray, Co. Wicklow. 26th April.
Asylum, John Mooney Foundation, Chigago, U.S.A. Oct/Nov ’05
2005
Asylum, Linen Hall Gallery, Castlebar, Co. Mayo. June ’05.
The Landing, Solo booth, Brussels Art Fair, April ‘05.
2004
The Landing, The Blue Room, Galerie Bugdhn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany,
Dec 04/ Jan 05.
2003
The Landing, The Blue Room, Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Ely Place,
Dublin 2. July/ August ‘03
2002
Food for Thought, Microsoft Atrium Building, Sandyford Industrial Estate, Dublin, Commission. Architects, MurrayOlaoire.
Alice’s Teaparty, Through the Looking Glass, Office of Public Works, St. Stephens Green Dublin, Commission as % for Art Scheme.
2001
How to Buttrerfly a Leg of Lamb, collaboration with Abigail O Brien, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Muhlengasse 3, Dusseldorf, July ’01.
Wide Shut, Sligo Art Gallery, March '01.
2000
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh Aug. '00
1999
How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb by Mary Kelly and Abigail O Brien. Concourse Installation Programme, County Hall, Dunlaoghaire
Installation sited in Circa magazine issue 87 How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb Spring '99
1998
Pure Blue, Intermedia '98, Triskel Art Centre, Cork
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Intimacy. Das Bad in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum, Ahlen Museumsplatz
1, 59227 Ahlen, Germany, 31 January - 24 April 2010
2009
(Summer Interva ‘09l) & Choice: something else, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf 19th July – 19th September.
Selected, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer GMBH, Heirich- Heine- Allee 19, Dusseldorf, Germany, March – May ‘09
Another Island, Contemporary Irish Art, American Irish Historical Society, New York City, U.S.A. 6th March – 10th April
2008
Summer Group Show, Claremorris Gallery, Co.Mayo Sept 6th
Slice 2008, Fairgreen House, Galway, June
Is Mise Ireland, 411 Galleries, Xin TianDi area (Shangai) and Central Academy of Fine Art (Beijing), Spring ‘08
2007
Journeys, Castletown, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe, Leuven, Belgium July – September ‘07.
2006
Irish American Arts Award, New York, September ’06. Award winner.
Greenstar Open Exihibition 2006. Winner. Mermaid Art Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
Ten Years in the Making, Farmleigh Gallery, Castleknock, Dublin July.
Additions 2006, National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, Limerick University, June ‘06.
Royal Hibernian Academy annual May ’06. Invited.
2005
Artforum, Berlin, Paris Photo, Cologne Art Fair ’05.
Eurojet FuturesAn Anthology, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. July.
Test Tube, Commission for Teagasc, Biotechnology Building, Oak Park, Co. Carlow. ‘04
Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris. Nov '04.
Cologne Art Fair, Cologne. Oct '04.
Artforum, Berlin. Sept ‘04.
2003
Arrival, Waterford Hospital, Dec. ‘03.
Basil Art Fair, Switzerland, June ‘03.
Hugh Lane, M.A. National College of Art & Design group show.
Loosing it, Fenton Gallery, Cork, March ‘03.
2002
The Leabhar Mor exhibition, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, Oct. Crawford Open 2, Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Dec.- Jan.’02.
Vacationland, Westbourne Studios,Portabello, London. Dec.'01–March ‘02.
From past to present, Art of the State, 1815 – 2001, Draiocht, Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin 15, Sept. Dungarvan Art Centre, Wexford Colllege, Enniskillen Castle Museum, Northern Ireland. Co.Londonderry, Atrium, O.P.W. St.Stephens Green, Dublin.
Vacationland, Arthouse, Templebar, Dublin June '02
Eurojet futures 01, Royal Hibernian Accadamy, Ely Place, Dublin 2, June ‘01.
Zwischenraum 4, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer,Muhlengasse 3, Dusseldorf.
2000
Series, Elkedsoscher Galleries, Hamburg, Dec'00.
Cologne Art, Cologne Oct'00.
Zwischen Raum, Galerie Seitz & Partner,Wieldstr.34, Berlin. Feb '00.
1999
How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb with Abigail O Brien, Cologne Art,Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, November '99.
How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb with Abigail O Brien Artforum, Berlin c/o Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf. September.
Black Sole Bonne Femme, Perspective '99, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb with Abigail O Brien, EV+A reduced, City Art Gallery, Limerick.
1998
Baby Blue, Perspective '98, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Pure Blue, Festival Revue, Edinburgh Festival
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Film Screenings
2000
Festival Internazionaie del Cinema Giovane, Chile, Oct'00.
Tai Wan Film Festival, Taiwan, May '00.
1999
Foyle Film Festival, Derry, Nov. '99.
Raindance Film Festival, London, Oct.' 99.
NYU Tish School of the Arts, Cantor Film Centre, New York, Oct '99.
B.B.C. Short Film Festival, UCI Empire, Leicester Sq. London, September '99.
Odense Film Festival, Denmark, August '99.
Soho Film Festival, London, July '99.
Galway Film Festival, July '99.
Dublin Film Festival, Virgin Cinema, May '99.
Kino Festival, Manchester, April '99.
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Awards
2007
Artlinks Bursary Award 2007
2006
Irish American Arts Awards, New York, Oct.06.
Mermaid Greenstar Open Submission Competition Award Winner.
2005
Arts Council travel & Mobility award
Cultural Relations committee award
2003
Arts Council Bursary Award
2002
Artisits-in-prison-scheme, Arts Council award, Portlaoise Prison, Summer ’02, Autumn ‘02.
2001
Solo Exhibition Award, Sligo Art Gallery, March '01.
2000
Arts Council Bursary Award, May '00.
Wicklow County Council Arts Funding Awards, May '00.
1999
EV+A award '99.
Arts Council - Aer Lingus Travel Award.
1998
NCEA Student of the Year Award 1998
Random Access Video Training Symposium '98, Sculptor Society of Ireland
Markievicz Gold Medal '97/'98 for Best Emerging Sculpture, United Arts Club, Dublin.
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Reviews
2008
Regional profile, My studio is my home, The Visual Artists Newssheet issue 2 2008 p 12.
2007
R.T.E Radio 1, The Eleventh Hour. Interview with Elizabeth O Neill Friday 18th May.
Building Site Battles in all their crude, aggressive glory, by Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 16th May.
2005
asylum, by Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, June '05.
Kurz, grune Gefangnis-Welt, p4 by Gertrud Peters, 14th Jan '05.
Land of art NRW, p. 54 by Annette Urban The Line between staging, abstraction and fiction.
2004
Paris Photo, p32,33.
Why Paint? A vox pop, Circa art magazine, Sept ‘04.
2003
The Landing, by Belinda McKeon, p34 – 47, Contexts café publications, volume 2 issue 3.
The Landing, by Orla Fitzpatrick, p55, 56, Source magazine, autumn 2003.
Dublin: Mary Kelly at Royal Hibernian Academy, by Catherine Lyons, p.84,85. Circa art magazine, issue 105.
Asserting personal identity in prison spaces, by Aidan Dunne, Irish Times.
Mary Kelly, The Landing, by Billy Leahy,In Dublin magazine,p.57, August.
Capturing the artistic moment, by Catherine Foley, Irish Times, 19th July.
Exhibition, Sunday Business Post, 20th July ‘03.
Mary Kelly. The Landing, by Catherine Leen, Sunday Times, Culture Section, 20th July ‘03.
Exhibiting a degree of ability – and then some, by Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, June.
Cork: Loosing it, by Alannah Hopkin, Circa 104; Summer ‘03.
Losing it, by Mark Ewart, The Irish Times, 19th March ‘03.
Vox Pop, Circa Magazine, edition 102, Jan ‘03.
2001
Kunst im Kochstudio, by Georg Imdahl, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeiting, 28th July.
Doing away with convention, by Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, May 24th.
Showcasing the future, Marianne Hartigan,The Sunday Tribune, 3rd June.
Wide Shut, Cormac O Leary, Arts West, Spring '01.
Cologne, by Alan Phelan,Circa Art Magazine, Issue 91, Spring '00
1999
It may surprise you - you may surprise yourself, by Elizabeth Baird, Belfast Telegraph, August 21st '99.
Playing in the ruins of western culture, by Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, August 11th '99.
EV+A has a little lamb..., by Gemma Tipton in conversation with JeanneGreenberg, Circa Art Magazine, issue 88.
99 Reduced, by Sean Taylor, SSI newsletter,July '99.
Limerick's mini-marathon, by Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 27th May.
All about EV+A, by Dorothy Walker, The Sunday Times, 23rd May.
The Silence of the Lamb, by Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 10th March.
A Woman's Work, by Ciaran Owens, The Event Guide, 3rd March.
1998
A Wider Perspective, by Gavin Weston, SundayTimes, 11th Oct
Take a walk on the wild side, by Marianne Hartigan, Sunday Tribune, September '98
Old Baths keep it in Perspective, News Letter, 19th October '98
Intermedia, by Allanah Hopkin, The Sunday Times, 3rd May '98.
Intermedia, by Mark Ewart.The Irish Times, 12th May '98.
Markievicz Medal, by Jason Oakley, Sculptor Society of Ireland Newsletter, May/June '98.
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Publications and Catalogues
2009
Another Island, Contemporary Irish Art. Seeing Ireland by Aidan Dunne
2008
The Visual Artists News Sheet Issue 2 March-April. Mary Kelly, P12.
2007
Journeys, Office of Public Works.
2006
Ten Years in the Making, Art in State Buildings ’95 – ’05 OPW.
2005
Paris Photo ’05
Eurojet Futures, An Anthology of Emerging Art from Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy.
Artists at Work. Asylum. Contexts. The art work, issue 2/2005.
Asylum, St. Mary’s hospital, Castlebar
2004
Why Paint? A vox pop, Circa art magazine, Sept ’04.
Paris Photo ‘04.
2003
The Landing, by Mary Kelly, p 48, Contexts café publications, volume 2.
Losing it, Article Press, U.K.
Royal Irish Academy Summer/autumn 2003
Crawford Open 1/3, ‘02.
2001
From Past to Present, Art of the State ‘01, 1815–2001.
Wide Shut, Sligo Art Gallery.
Eurojet futures 01.
1999
Installation Programme '99, Dunlaoghaire Rathdown County Council.
How to Butterfly a Leg of Lamb by Mary Kelly & Abigail O Brien.
Perspective '99, Black Sole Bonne Femme, by Mary Kelly & Abigail O Brien.
in many ways we were strangers...by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn,
EV+A reduced catalogue, '99.
1998
Reviewed Once Is Too Much, I.M.M.A. Circa Art Magazine no.83.
Crossing the Distance, by Louise Dompierre, Perspective '98 Catalogue.
Reviewed Banquet Show R.H.A with P. Fitzgerald & E. Hartigan. Circa Art Magazine, no.82.
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Collections
National Self Portrait Collection, Limerick City University.
Castlebar General Hospital.
Microsoft, Dublin.
Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Teagasc, Carlow.
Goldman Sacks, London.
Wicklow County Council
Private Collections Ireland, Europe and U.S.A.
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