Kelley O'Leary
b. Quincy, Massachusetts

Education

2022 MFA Art Studio  University of California, Davis
2011 BA Studio Art, Anthropology   University of California, Santa Cruz

Solo + Two Person Exhibitions

2019
As You See It, Juliette Chone & Kelley O'Leary, Palette SF, San Francisco, CA
2018
Collective Geographies, Irving Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2016
City Scope, Equator, San Francisco, CA
Streetview, The Frank-Ratchye Project Space, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2015
Works by Kelley O'Leary, Stanza, San Francisco, CA
2013
Unfamiliar Thoughts, Atlas, San Francisco, CA
Home Here, James Library Gallery, Norwell, MA
2011
Dwell, UCSC Women's Center, Santa Cruz, CA

Group Exhibitions

2023
Slow Connection, Pallas Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Kelley O'Leary with Brian Bartz & Tino Gonzales)
Plus One, San Jose Community College, San Jose, CA

2022
Viral Ecologies, Online Exhibition curated by Saffronia Downing & Rosemary Hall
Introductions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 
invisible monument / secret memorial, Richmond District, San Francisco, CA curated by Kate Laster
San Francisco Art Book Fair, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
Chancellor's Residence Show, University of California, Davis, CA
Cut From the Same Cloth, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Arts & Humanities Graduate Exhibition, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
Internet & The Sacred Landscape, performance-lecture, Weird Studies Symposium, University of California, Davis
Through Mossy Ways, I Like Your Work Podcast Spring Exhibition

2021
Th' Endless Internal Expanse, Gospel Flat Farm Stand, Bolinas, CA
Free Fall, Brittany, Vallejo, CA
Virtual Realism, The Art History Babes, Online Exhibition
Landscape Zine Reading Room, Small Press Fest, University of Illinois, Champaigne,  IL
UC Davis Film Festival, Davis, CA
TASTE Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2020
Borderline Collective Online Exhibition

2019
Instructions for Underground Movements, The Imaginists, Santa Rosa, CA
Spray Bows, Flowers Gallery, Oakland, CA
Root Division's 18th Annual Art Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
GREAT HOPE, Annex Gallery, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA

2018
Root Division's 17th Annual Art Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
California Walkscapes, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SF Zine Fest, San Francisco, CA
GREAT HOPE, Tiny Town Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Seaside Dinner, Sand Shed, San Francisco, CA
GREAT HOPE, Union Gallery, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA
15 Year Anniversary Show, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2017
7th Anniversary Group Show, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
stARTup Art Fair, San Francisco CA
Taste, Root Division, San Francisco CA
Back to the Garden, Root Division, San Francisco CA
Art Pop-Up, Chez Cynthia Loukides, San Francisco, CA
Protest Poster Show, Faye's Video & Espresso, San Francisco, CA
Protest Poster Show, Maple Street Denim, Oakland, CA
Piedmont Center for the Arts Juried Art Show, Piedmont, CA

2016
Unsafe Colors, Studio 106, Santa Monica, CA
Root Division Annual Art Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
WITHIN, Merchants of Reality, San Francisco, CA
Featured Artist, Little Paper Planes, San Francisco, CA
Featured Artist, Kitty Hawk Gallery, Sebastopol, CA
Hospitality House Annual Art Auction, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inner Cities, E.M. Wolfman, Oakland, CA
stARTup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Taste, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
LA Zine Fest, The Majestic Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Airplane Mode, Studio 106, Santa Monica, CA

2015
Root Division Annual Art Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Drawn Together, Children's Fairyland, Oakland, CA
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
StARTup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Taste, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013
Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2012
Small Works Juried Show, Freedom Trails Gallery, Amherst, MA
After Hours, Flax Art & Design, San Francisco, CA
J. CREW Fall Show, Copley Place, Boston, MA
Locally Grown, Mt. Hope Improvement Society, Scituate, MA
Members' Show, South Shore Art Center Festival, Cohasset, MA

2010
Cycles, Yes.Oui.Si. Space, Boston, MA

2009
Purple House Art Exhibition, Santa Cruz, CA

Awards + Residencies

2023
Slow Connection, Pallas Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2022
LeShelle & Gary May Art Purchase Prize, Jan and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
Kala Artist in Residence, Berkeley, CA 
Art Farm Residency, Marquette, NE 
Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship Finalist
Mary Lou Osborn Award, University of California, Davis

2021
Dean's Summer Graduate Research Fellowship, University of California, Davis
Mary Lou Osborn Award, University of California, Davis

2019
Artist in Residence, MacArthur Place Hotel, Sonoma, CA
Artist in Residence, The Jennings Hotel, Joseph, OR

2018
Artist in Residence, Collaborative Arts Mobility Project (CAMP), Northport, WA
Artist in Residence, Bullseye Glass, Emeryville, CA
Artist in Residence, Irving Street Projects, San Francisco, CA

2017
Zellerbach Family Foundation Grant for Community Arts (Irving Street Projects)
Artist in Residence, Irving Street Projects, San Francisco, CA

2011
Irwin Project Grant, UCSC

2007
Silver Key Portfolio Award, National Arts and Writing Awards

Teaching, Workshops, Lectures + Relevant Experience

2023
Participant, Solidarity Infrastructures, School for Poetic Computation, online; Spring 2023
Lecturer, Drawing from Photographs, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Spring 2023
Guest Lecturer, Visual Communications, University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA ;  February 2023

2022
Studio Assistant, Print Club Ltd, July 2022-Present
Guest Speaker at Humane; September 2022
Internet and the Sacred Landscape, performance-lecture, Inaugural Lecture and Performance with Claire Colbrook, Imaginaries of the Future Collective (online)
Lecturer, Beginning Drawing, University of California, Davis; Summer 2022
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, Beginning Printmaking, University of California, Davis ; Spring 2022
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Studio Art Practice, University of California, Davis; Winter 2022

2021
Associate Instructor, Beginning Drawing, University of California, Davis; Fall 2022
Visiting Artist Lecture Series Graduate Student Coordinator, University of California, Davis
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, Design/Aesthetics/Experience, University of California, Davis
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, Beginning Sculpture, University of California, Davis
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, Beginning Drawing, University of California, Davis

2020
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Photography, University of California, Davis
Visual Arts Instructor, Bennett Valley Union School District, Santa Rosa, CA

2019
Visual Arts Instructor, Bennett Valley Union School District, Santa Rosa, CA
Visiting Artist Lecturer, City College, San Francisco, CA

2018
Visual Arts Instructor, Bennett Valley Union School District, Santa Rosa, CA
Art Instructor, Little Artistas, San Francisco, CA
Teaching Artist, Textile Arts Center - Cedars of Marin, San Rafael, CA

2017
Workshop Instructor, Facebook, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Teaching Artist, Niokhob Guedj School, Thiès, Senegal
Art Instructor, Little Artistas, San Francisco, CA

2016
Workshop Instructor, Case For Making, San Francisco, CA
Workshop Instructor, Khan Academy, San Francisco, CA
Teaching Artist, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2015
Teaching Artist, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Artist’s Assistant, Allison Leigh Holt, San Francisco, CA

2014
Education Intern, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Production Assistant, Shape Shifters Cinema, Allison Leigh Holt & Scott Stark, Oakland, CA
Artist’s Assistant, Allison Leigh Holt, San Francisco, CA

2013
Artists in Education Intern, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Art Instructor, Breakthrough Collaborative, San Francisco, CA

2009-2012
Sculpture Apprentice, Skylight Studios, Woburn, MA

Collections
Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art 
MacArthur Place Hotel, Sonoma, CA
The Jennings Hotel, Joseph, OR
Archives and Special Collections, Peter J Shields Library, University of California, Davis​

Bibliography
Precog Magazine Issue 8, New York, NY 2023.
Journal of Creative Geography, School of Geography & Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 2023.
Slow Connection, Imaginaries of the Future, National Monument Press, Oakland, CA 2023.
Introductions. San Francisco, RD Press, 2022.
"Everyday Apocalypse", Risograph zine publication, But,Whole Press, SF, CA 2021.
Collective Geographies. Oakland, National Monument Press, 2019.
Mailbox 2. Oakland, National Monument Press, 2019
Root Division 15th Anniversary Alumni Publication. San Francisco, RD Press, 2017.
Home Issue X. Chicago, Scout & Birdie, 2016.
MFA Never. San Francisco, RD Press, 2016.
Studio Visit Magazine. Boston, Studio Visit, Spring/Summer 2016.

Press
Uncharted Territory, UC Davis College of Letters and Science, May 2022
Collective Geographies, Landscape Zine Reading Room, Small Press Fest, October 2021
Artist Feature-Kelley O'Leary, on-off.site, March 2022
THE VSSL: Cluster, Vanessa Labi, October 31, 2021
THE VSSL Podcast Episode 2: Cluster, Dec 19, 2021


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