Photo by Macy Castenada Lee 2022

Kelley O’Leary (b.1988 Quincy, Massachusetts) is an interdisciplinary 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, Wolfman Books, Incline Gallery, Palette SF, The Great Highway Gallery, Annex Gallery at Monterey Peninsula College, Union Gallery at UMass Amherst and Studio 106 LA among others. She has received fellowships and residencies from Bullseye Glass, Irving Street Projects, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Collaborative Arts Mobility Project, Kala Art Institute and Art Farm. She was the recipient of the Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship, the Mary Lou Osborn Award and the LeShelle and Gary May Art Purchase Prize at University of California, Davis.

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
email: kelleyeoleary@gmail.com
instagram: @kelley__oleary