DEBORAH KELLY
1962 Born: Melbourne
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2018 Life in the Ruins Fabian + Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2018 Power/Play, Public Art Commission, Melbourne University
2018 No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory) tour: 12 city and regional galleries (2014-2018)
2017 LYING WOMEN and The Greater Venus Variations, Wagner Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary
2017 Venus Envy, Kvindemuseet, Aarhus, Denmark
2017 Beastliness, GAFFA Gallery, Sydney
2017 No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory), Warwick Art Gallery, QLD
2017 No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory), Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW
2017 No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory), Artspace Mackay, QLD
2016 Bodies of Work, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Sydney
2016 Scenes From The Death Of Books, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
2016 No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory), Broken Hill Regional Gallery
2016 No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory), Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
2016 Scenes From The Death of Books, Galleries UNSW, Sydney
2014 The Miracles, Tweed Heads Regional Gallery, Tweed Heads
2014 The Miracles, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo
2013 The Miracles, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2013 The Miracles, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2013 Between Thresholds, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
2011 Awfully Beastly, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2011 Make More Monsters, Artspace, Sydney
2009 Big Butch Billboard, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2009 Deborah Kelly, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
2007 Knicker Knot, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2018 Limestone Coast International Video Festival, Riddoch Art Gallery, SA
2018 Who We Are Now, The Oratory, UK
2018 Craftivism, Shepparton Art Museum (touring 2019-2020)
2018 Strangelove Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
2018 Spaced3: North by Southeast, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2018 PhotoBasel, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Portofemme Festival, Porto, Portugal
2018 FestAnca Zilina, Slovakia
2018 Museum of Love and Protest, NAS Gallery, Sydney
2018 Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art & Feminism, ACCA, Melbourne
2018 40 Years of Queer Art, Comber St Studio, Sydney
2017 Bideodromo Festival, Sarean Cultural Centre, Bilbao, Spain
2017 Les Gai Cine, Madrid, Spain
2017 Madatac, Madrid, Spain
2017 The Public Body 2, Artspace, Sydney, July-Sept 2017
2017 Works on Paper, Hazelhurst Art Gallery, May-July 2017
2017 Mr Mov, Festival of artist’s moving image, Brescia, Italy
2017 Fire! LGBTI festival, Barcelona, Spain
2017 Cine-Sister, Manchester, UK
2017 Back_Up Kurtz film festival, Weimar, Germany
2017 Ransäter Film Festival, Sweden
2017 Animfest, Athens, Greece
2017 Moving Histories//Future Projections, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2017 The Festival of (In)appropriation, Los Angeles USA (touring USA and Canada)
2017 Códec Festival de Vídeo Y Creaciones Sonoras, Mexico City; Madatac, Madrid
2016 Animated Dreams Festival, Tallin, Estonia
2016 VideoBabel, Cusco, Peru
2016 ArteNonStop, Buenos Aires
2016 London Experimental Film Festival
2016 WildThing, Mosman Art Gallery
2016 Fisher’s Ghost Award Exhibition, Campbelltown Art Centre
2016 Seasons of Birth, Australian Centre for Christianity in Culture
2016 Planning for Tomorrow, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
2016 Gala Group, Wagner Contemporary
2016 National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2016 The Art of Parts, Art Gallery of NSW
2016 Linoleum International Contemporary Media Art Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
2016 Future Feminist Archive, Cross Arts Projects, Sydney
2016 Contemporary Art Award exhibition: Incinerator Gallery Moonee Ponds
2016 Substation Contemporary Art Award 2016, Substation Gallery, Altona
2016 National Tertiary Art Prize, Newcastle Gallery, Newcastle
2015 Thessaloniki Biennale
2015 Open One, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool UK
2015 Kampung Kolase, S14 Gallery, Bandung Indonesia
2015 Performance Presence/Video Time, Experiemnetal Art Foundation, Adelaide
2015 Channels Video Art Biennial, ACMI, Melbourne
2015 MONA FOMA, Hobart, TAS
2015 Ghostwriter Project, MOTA, Ljubljana
2014 Biennale of Sydney; Zero Tolerance, MOMA PS1, NYC
2014 TarraWarra Biennial, as a member of the boat-people artist collective
2014 Ada & After, ICA, London
2014 Menagerie, ACCA, Melbourne
2013 Meine Liebe Schwan, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
2012 Contemporary Australia: Women, Gallery of Modern Art/Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;
2012 Festival Imagem-Contato, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012 Urban Festival, The Mosque, Zagreb, Croatia
2010 An das Gerät! Halle 14, Baumwollespinnerei, Leipzig and Galerie ACC, Weimar, Germany; Crosstalk Video Art Festival 2010, Budapest, Hungary
2011 Burn What You Cannot Steal, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia; From Blank Pages Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2011 From Blank Pages, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2011 OK Video Festival, 5th Jakarta International Video Festival, National Gallery of Indonesia
2011 Vox Feminae Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2011 Dance Camera West, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2010 An das Gerät! Halle 14, Baumwollespinnerei, Leipzig, and Galerie ACC Weimar, Germany
2010 Crosstalk Video Art Festival 2010 Budapest, Hungary
2010 Love Never Dies (with Tina Fiveash) Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
2009 The Sea is History, (in boat-people.org) John Hope Franklin Center Gallery, Duke University, North Carolina USA
2009 BIENNALE 09 IDILL screenings, La Raffinerie, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Multiplicity, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2008 Porno 2.0, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany
2008 In Transition Russia, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, and National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2008 Singapore Biennale 2008
2008 Isolomania, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Cyprus
2007 The Big Easy, ACC Galerie Weimar and Halle 12, Leipzig, Germany
2007 The Independence Show, (in boat-people.org) Galerie Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2007 Normal Love, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Selected Awards and Residencies:
2018 Scientia Scholarship, UNSW (award to support doctoral studies)
2018 Artist in Residence, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD
2018 Artist in Residence, The God of Tiny Things, Bundanon Trust, NSW
2018 Artist in Residence, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2017 SPACED3 Residency, Kirsten Kjaers Museum, Frøstrup, Denmark
2017 Silver medal, Experimental section, WOFF Women’s Film Festival Brighton, UK
2017 Artist in Residence, Kvindemuseet, Aarhus, Denmark: European Capital of Culture
2017 Australia Council for the Arts Development Grant
2016 National Association for the Visual Arts NSW Artist Grant
2016 Acquisition Award, National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
2015 Cayte Latta LGBTIQ Visual Arts Award
2015 Artist or Curator Grant, Museums & Galleries of NSW : Murray Art Museum Albury Inaugural Artist residency
2015 Sidharta Philanthropic Travel Grant, Indonesia
2014 NAVA Artist Grant
2014 University Postgraduate Award (scholarship as Distinguished Scholar)
2013 New work grant, Australia Council
2013 Redland’s Art Prize Audience Award, QLD
2012 Albury Art Prize, MAMA, NSW
2012 Residency by Invitation: Bundanon Trust, NSW
2011 New work grant, Royal Institute of Science, Australia
2011 Fellowship, Copyright Agency Limited
2010 Field Theory Autonomous Artist's Grant
2009 Travel research grant: Kulturstiftung Des Bundes, Weimar, Germany
2009 Two-year Visiting Fellowship, Cultural Studies, University of Technology, Sydney
2009 Screengrab International New Media Art Award
2009 Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
Public collections (selected):
Wellcome Trust, UK Art Gallery of NSW National Gallery of Australia
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Artbank Centre for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles USA
University of Wollongong
Royal Institution of Australia, SA
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Museum Victoria
State Library of Victoria
Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
Ballarat Regional Art Gallery, VIC
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Poster Collection, Melbourne NEME Public Art, Cyprus