Kelly Richardson (born August 2, 1972 in Burlington,
Ontario, Canada) is an artist whose media-based practice
focuses on the idea of mixed realities; part 'real', part fantasy.
As David Jager noted in Canadian Art magazine [1],
Richardson deploys a formidable range of techniques and a broad palette of approaches in her creation of a new aesthetic, one that elicits a euphoric suspension of disbelief, allowing viewers to delve into the increasingly ambiguous and complex juncture between the real and the represented. She has transformed video, once a self-consciously minimal, anti-cinematic, bare-bones practice, into something much richer, and much stranger.
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 The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden where she exhibited alongside artists such as Andy Warhol, Tony Oursler and Isaac Julien, Gwangju Biennale, Busan Biennale, Sundance Film Festival and the Beijing 798 Biennale.
Her works have been acquired by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C., USA), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada) and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Montréal, Canada). She was long listed for the Sobey Art Award for 2008 and 2009.[2] Also in 2009, she was selected as the featured artist for the Americans for the Arts National Art Awards where she was honoured alongside Ed Ruscha, Robert Redford, Salman Rushdie, among others [3]. Kelly Richardson was featured in the fall 09 issue of Canadian Art magazine as one of "10 artists setting the pace of contemporary art" [4].
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Kelly Richardson (born August 2, 1972 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada) is an artist whose media-based practice focuses on the idea of mixed realities; part 'real', part fantasy.
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She was born in Burlington, Ontario and at the age of 6 was relocated to Guelph, Ontario where she grew up, later attending high school at the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute. 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.
Kelly Richardson's practice centres around video and photography which often employs a high standard of special effect, mixing real footage with digitally constructed elements. Her work "adopts the use of cinematic language to investigate notions of constructed environments and the blurring of the real versus the unreal. She creates contemplative spaces which offer visual metaphors for the sensations associated with the hugely complicated world we have created for ourselves, magnificent and equally dreadful."[1] As David Jager noted in Canadian Art magazine [2],
Richardson deploys a formidable range of techniques and a broad palette of approaches in her creation of a new aesthetic, one that elicits a euphoric suspension of disbelief, allowing viewers to delve into the increasingly ambiguous and complex juncture between the real and the represented. She has transformed video, once a self-consciously minimal, anti-cinematic, bare-bones practice, into something much richer, and much stranger.
She has exhibited widely throughout the world including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden for The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image which included such artists as Andy Warhol, Tony Oursler and Isaac Julien, the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and she has represented Canada in the Gwangju Biennale, Busan Biennale and the first Beijing 798 Biennale.
Her works have been acquired by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C., USA), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada) and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Montréal, Canada). She was long listed for the Sobey Art Award two years running in 2008 and 2009.[3] Also in 2009, she was selected as the featured artist for the Americans for the Arts National Art Awards where she was honoured alongside Ed Ruscha, Robert Redford and Salman Rushdie. [4]. Kelly Richardson was featured in the fall 09 issue of Canadian Art magazine as one of "10 artists setting the pace of contemporary art" [5].
   | Exhibition essay for Mercer Union, May-June 2000 - Mercer Union Back Gallery: Kelly Richardson |
| | Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal exhibition documentation, Sept. 6 - Oct. 21 2007 - Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal |
| | Gwangju Biennale documentation, 2004 - GWANGJU BIENNALE 2004 |
| | Birch Libralato, gallery representation in Toronto - Birch Libralato gallery | welcome |
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