Mary Kelly

born 1941

Mary Kelly, ‘Post-Partum Document. Documentation III: Analysed Markings And Diary Perspective Schema (Experimentum Mentis III: Weaning from the Dyad)’ 1975
Post-Partum Document. Documentation III: Analysed Markings And Diary Perspective Schema (Experimentum Mentis III: Weaning from the Dyad) 1975
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Biography

Mary Kelly (born 1941) is an American conceptual artist, feminist, educator, and writer.

Mary Kelly has contributed extensively to the discourse of feminism and postmodernism through her large-scale narrative installations and theoretical writings. Kelly’s work mediates between conceptual art and the more intimate interests of artists of the 1980s. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she is considered among the most influential contemporary artists working today. Mary Kelly is Judge Widney Professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design of the University of Southern California. She was previously Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was Head of Interdisciplinary Studio, an area she initiated for artists engaged in site-specific, collective, and project based work. She was interviewed about her experience teaching at UCLA in Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World. Mary Kelly is represented by "Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects" in Culver City, CA; "Pippy Houldsworth Gallery" in London, UK and Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York, NY.

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Conceptual art Feminist art

Artworks

Mary Kelly, ‘Post-Partum Document. Documentation III: Analysed Markings And Diary Perspective Schema (Experimentum Mentis III: Weaning from the Dyad)’ 1975

Mary Kelly Post-Partum Document. Documentation III: Analysed Markings And Diary Perspective Schema (Experimentum Mentis III: Weaning from the Dyad)

1975
Margaret Harrison, Kay Hunt, Mary Kelly, ‘Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry 1973-75’ 1973–5

Margaret Harrison, Kay Hunt, Mary Kelly Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry 1973-75

1973–5

Film and audio

Mary Kelly on feminism

American conceptual artist Mary Kelly discusses how feminism informed her seminal work Post-Partum Document 1973-79 and the origins of her ...

Features

Margaret Harrison, Homeworkers 1977
Tate Etc

On the home front: Recent Acquisition: Margaret Harrison

Margaret Harrison

The pioneering feminist artist talks to Tate Etc.’s Mariko Finch about her 1977 piece Homeworkers, a politically potent work ...

Susan Morris ERSD: View from Above 2012
Tate Papers

Lightning and Rain: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis and Matisse’s Hand

Ed Krčma

Involuntary Drawing

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