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Kelly Richardson is a visual artist whose work explores simultaneity, affect and the use of cinematic language to create part real/part imagined landscapes, offering visual metaphors for our modern "reality"; a wavering hybrid of fact and fiction. She was born in Canada (1972) where she studied fine art at the Ontario College of Art & Design (AOCAD with honours) and media studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (MFA studies). Her works have been exhibited internationally at various galleries including Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal (2007), Birch Libralato, Toronto (2006), The Nunnery, London, UK (2006), Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, UK (2005), Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2004), Stills Gallery, Scotland (2004), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada (2004), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2002-2003) and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2002). Upcoming exhibitions include "The Cinema Effect" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2008) and solo shows at HALLWALLS Center for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, USA (2008) and the KW|AG, Kitchener, Canada (2008). Her work was recently acquired by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She lives and works in the United Kingdom.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
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Birch Libralato, "Twilight Avenger",
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 24 - Sep 06, 2008
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, "The Cinema Effect",
Washington DC, USA, Feb 14-May 11, 2008
The cinema, its technology (including later offshoots like television and the internet) and its vocabulary have permeated contemporary culture to the extent that the very boundaries between "real life" and make-believe are often indistinct - sometimes even indecipherable. "The Cinema Effect" is a two-part exhibition that focuses on contemporary works of art and the ways in which they adapt, challenge or reflect the influence of cinema and its blurring of definitions of fact and fiction. Both exhibitions include film and media installations by a range of international artists including Omar Fast, Gary Hill, Isaac Julien, Steve McQueen, Tony Oursler, Runa Islam and Kelly Richardson, among others.'
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HALLWALLS, "The Edge of Everything",
Buffalo, New York, USA, Jan-Feb, 2008
Solo exhibition featuring numerous single channel works
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KW|AG, "Forest Park",
Kitchener, Canada, Jan-April, 2008
Solo exhibition featuring a new dual channel video installation
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