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Kelly Richardson
Kelly Richardson (Burlington, Ontario, Canada, 1972) studied fine art at the Ontario College of Art & Design (AOCAD with honours, 1996) and media studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (MFA studies, 2003).
She represented Canada at the first Beijing 798 Biennale (2009), Busan Biennale (2008), Gwangju Biennale (2004) and her work was included in the Sundance Film Festival (2009) and Le Mois de la Photo a Montréal (2008). She has exhibited internationally at various important museums and publics institutions including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in an exhibition entitled The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image (which will travel to La Caixa, Barcelona in 2011), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Art Gallery of Ontario, Centre Georges Pompidou.
Her work is represented in the public collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, USA), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Montréal, Canada), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada) and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC, USA).
She was shortlisted for the Sobey’s Art Award - Canada’s $70,000 preeminent award for contemporary art - two years running in 2008 and 2009 and she had the honour of being the featured artist at the Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards 2009. The 2009 fall issue of Canadian Art magazine included Kelly Richardson as one of '10 artists setting the pace of contemporary art'.