Kelly Lloyd

Kelly Lloyd is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist who focuses on issues of representation and knowledge production and prioritizes public-facing collaborative research. Lloyd received a dual M.F.A. in Painting and M.A. in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015, and earned a B.A. from Oberlin College in 2008. Recent projects include a solo exhibition at Shane Campbell Gallery, “Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect” for the Museum of Vernacular Art, and inclusion in "Habeas Corpus" at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. Lloyd performed with Jesse Malmed and ACRE TV at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016, and her essay "Katie Sokoler Your Construction Paper Tears Can't Hide Your Yayoi Kusama Neurotic Underbelly" is included in The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness (punctum press, October 2017). Lloyd was named one of NEWCITY'S "Breakout Artists of 2015” and was a 2017 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist. In 2018, Lloyd will attend artist residencies in Vienna through KulturKontakt, and in Aarhus through the Aarhus Center for Visual Art.

EDUCATION:

• 2015 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL: M.A. Visual & Critical Studies, M.F.A. Painting & Drawing
• 2008 Oberlin College Oberlin, OH; B.A. Majors: Studio Art (Honors), African American Studies/Minor: Environmental Studies

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Forthcoming: Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD ADDS DONNA, Chicago, IL 2017: Shane Campbell Gallery, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL 2016: Gift Baskets by Occasion, The Mission Gallery, Chicago, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Forthcoming: Black et alias, The New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC Bibliothēca, ROMAN SUSAN, Chicago, IL 2018: Eclipsing, Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL 2017: Outside Jokes, DEMO Projects, Springfield, IL Fleeting Monuments to the Wall of Respect, Museum of Vernacular Arts, Zürich, Switzerland 2017 Terrain Biennial, Stockholm, Sweden CAKE + ART, Beehold Cakes, Lafayette, CO ‘sindikit Project #7, ‘sindikit, Baltimore, MD Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition, Decker and Meyerhoff Galleries, Baltimore, MD The Dangerous Professors, Triumph, Chicago, IL Standards Variance, Public Access, Chicago, IL Proximity to Dead Skin, EMP Collective, Baltimore, MD 2016: A Rule by Nobody, Sector 2337, Chicago, IL Habeas Corpus, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Front and Center, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL SAIC 150th & SSCAC 75th, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, IL My Body is a Battleground, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Forms in Flux, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago, IL Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL Sabina Ott: Who Cares for the Sky?, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL

SELECTED PERFORMANCES:

“ACRE TV,” MCA Live, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL April 2016 "Sexy Man Artists" SKETCHBOOK: LIVE TO TAPE ARTIST TELEVISION FESTIVAL, Links Hall, Chicago, IL May 2015 Desire: A Soapbox Lecture, Kavi Gupta Editions, Chicago, IL April 2015 Midwest Popular Culture and American Culture Association, Indianapolis, IN Oct 2014 "4-5 Proposal Papers," Inaugural Graduate Conference: Process: in medias res, May 2014 Harvard Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Cambridge, MA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

“Katie Sokoler- Your Construction Paper Tears Can't Hide Your Yayoi Kusama Neurotic Underbelly," punctum press (October 2017). “,9. My Apartment,” DIDACTIC, Syntax Season (February 2017). "Application to Nowhere," A Rule By Nobody, Third Object Publication (November 2016). "Blacking Out Art History," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Blog (October 11, 2016). "Comedians Playing Themselves," LIVE TO TAPE, Lt. Paper Issue #3 (May 2015).

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Robin Dluzen, “Alex Bradley Cohen and Kelly Lloyd at Carrie Secrist Gallery,” Art LTD. (September 2015). Kate Sierzputowski, “Breakout Artists 2015: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers- Kelly Lloyd,” Newcity (April 2015).