Mary Kelly

born 1941

In Tate Britain

Walk Through British Art: Sixty years

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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. 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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Artworks

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

1975

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art T03925

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

1973–5

T07797

Film and audio

TateShots

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

Tate Etc

On the home front: Recent Acquisition: Margaret Harrison

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

Tate Papers

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

A celebrated sequence of slow-motion footage of Matisse’s working hand fascinated philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. This ...