Kelly Richardson

Kelly Richardson (born August 2, 1972 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada) is an artist whose practice mainly focuses on video and photography. From 1994 – 1997, she studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, Canada where she continued to reside practicing and exhibiting both nationally and internationally at various venues including Hallwalls, Mercer Union, Art Gallery of Ontario and Centre Georges Pompidou. In 2002 she relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for her Master of Fine Arts in Media Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. In 2003 she moved to the United Kingdom taking up residence in the north.

Since then, she has participated in numerous artist residencies in the UK and her work has been exhibited throughout the country including the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Stills Gallery, Cornerhouse and The Nunnery in London. International exhibitions include the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea in 2004 where she exhibited alongside artists such as Anish Kapoor and Richard Hamilton and "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. in 2008. Her works have been acquired by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C., USA) and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Montréal, Canada).

External links

* [http://www.kellyrichardson.net/ Official site]
* [http://www.birchlibralato.com/ Birch Libralato, gallery representation in Toronto]
* [http://www.mercerunion.org/html/richards.htm Exhibition essay for Mercer Union, May-June 2000]
* [http://www.ago.net/info/ago_exhibition_archive/exhibition_specific.cfm?ID=846 Description for Art Gallery of Ontario exhibition, Nov. 2002-March 2003]
* [http://2004.gwangju-biennale.org/eng/index.asp Gwangju Biennale documentation, 2004]
* [http://www.ngca.co.uk/docs/Kelly-Richardson.pdf Curatorial essay for Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Feb.-May 2005]
* [http://www.moisdelaphoto.com/ Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal exhibition documentation, Sept. 6 - Oct. 21 2007]