Photo by Macy Castenada Lee 2022

Kelley O’Leary is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Bay Area. 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 practice examines the internet as an alien and elemental planetary network. Her work imagines beyond linear and computational time to inhabit unfamiliar geological landscapes. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Root Division, Irving Street Projects, Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Southern Exposure, Well Well Projects, Incline Gallery, 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. 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. She is the co-curator of the Bay Area-based new media art talk series, Living Room Light Exchange.


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