Kelley O'Leary
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  • slow connection
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  • internet & the sacred landscape
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  • digital erosion simulation
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  • our Nature
  • how to sterilize your iphone
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  • continuous substances
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  • alchemical transformations
  • slow connection
  • clouds of the american west
  • internet & the sacred landscape
  • nicrocosms
  • on exatitude in the cloud
  • ether rocks
  • encrypted
  • digital erosion simulation
  • woman_relaxing_in_bedroom
  • our Nature
  • how to sterilize your iphone
  • my eyes are bigger
  • continuous substances
  • collective geographies
  • collective geographies book
  • streetview
  • about
  • cv
  • shop
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                                         Photo by Macy Castenada Lee 2022
Kelley O’Leary (b. Quincy, Massachusetts) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Northern California. She received a MFA in Art Studio from University of California, Davis and a BA in Art with a minor in Anthropology from University of California, Santa Cruz. O’Leary’s speculative, research-based practice investigates the role of digital technology from multiple human and non-human perspectives in an age of ecological collapse. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. at Root Division, Irving Street Projects, Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Southern Exposure, Well Well Projects, Incline Gallery, Palette SF, The Great Highway Gallery, Annex Gallery at Monterey Peninsula College, Union Gallery at UMass Amherst, LA Philosophical Research Society, and Studio 106 LA among others. She has received fellowships and residencies from Bullseye Glass, Irving Street Projects, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and Kala Art Institute among others. She was the recipient of the Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship at University of California, Davis, the Mary Lou Osborn Award and the LeShelle and Gary May Art Purchase Prize .

Kelley is one of fifteen artists and five curators in Imaginaries of the Future Collective, a self-organizing nomadic collective of artists and thinkers.


pronouns: she/they/it
email: kelleyeoleary@gmail.com
instagram: @kelley__oleary

  • alchemical transformations
  • slow connection
  • clouds of the american west
  • internet & the sacred landscape
  • nicrocosms
  • on exatitude in the cloud
  • ether rocks
  • encrypted
  • digital erosion simulation
  • woman_relaxing_in_bedroom
  • our Nature
  • how to sterilize your iphone
  • my eyes are bigger
  • continuous substances
  • collective geographies
  • collective geographies book
  • streetview
  • about
  • cv
  • shop