Kelley O’Leary is an interdisciplinary artist based in El Cerrito, CA. O'Leary's practice examines the internet as an elemental planetary network. Her work imagines beyond linear and computational time to inhabit unfamiliar geological landscapes. Her work has been exhibited at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, Root Division, Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, 120710 Gallery, Well Well Projects, Pallas Gallery, Incline Gallery, and Studio 106 LA among others. She has been an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute, Bullseye Glass, Irving Street Projects and VR Art Camp. She was the recipient of the LeShelle and Gary May Art Purchase Prize, the Mary Lou Osborn Award and the Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship at University of California, Davis. 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. Kelley is a member of Imaginaries of the Future Collective, a self-organizing nomadic collective of artists and thinkers. She is co-curator of the Bay Area-based new media art salon, Living Room Light Exchange.

pronouns: she/they/it
email: [email protected]
instagram: @kelley__oleary

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