Lauren Kelley
Artist Bio
Lauren Kelley was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1975 and currently working between Houston and New York. She has a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem; The Kitchen, New York; The New Museum; and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; among others. She is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. From 2017 to 2020 she served as Director and Chief Curator of the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling in New York. From 2021-2023 Kelley has been developing work as both an artist and curator with her latest project, Location Scouting at Skidmore College’s Tang Museum. In this evolving exhibition Kelley explores the nature of globetrotting alongside works by sculptor, Margarita Cabrera, animator, Jenny Levonian, and performance artist, Autumn Knight.
