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Alicia Kelly
Born: June 1986, Sapulpa, Oklahoma
Grants | Awards | Residencies
2023 Selected Sculpture Artist, Outdoor Downtown Sculpture Exhibit, Lawrence, KS
2023 Selected Sculpture Artist, Smoky Hill River Festival, Salina, KS
2019 Artist in Residence, Bunnell Street Arts, Homer, AK
2017 Selected Sculpture Artist, Downtown Lawrence Sculpture Exhibit, KS
2016 Grant Recipient, Celebration of the Ballard Center Mural Facilitator, Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission, KS
2016 Teacher Training Scholarship, Paper Workshop, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Penland,NC
2016 Selected BenchMarks Artist, Iowa City, IA
2016 Artist Inc. Fellow, Lawrence, KS
2015 Grant Recipient, Lawrence Intersection Repair, Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission, KS
2014 Artist in Residence, Fundacion ace para el Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 Selected Artist for Phoenix Awards Design, City of Lawrence, KS
2013 Artist in Residence, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2010 Hollander Family Foundation Scholarship, University of Kansas, KS
2010 Maurer Oswald Scholarship,University of Kansas, KS
Community
2023-2025 Lawrence Cultural Arts Commissioner, City of Lawrence, Lawrence, KS
2022 Arts + Culture Crossings Program Director, City of Lawrence, Lawrence, KS
Solo Exhibitions | Installations
2020 Scratching the Surface, Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO
2019 The Gate (Installation + Exhibition), Fayman Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2019 The Gate (Installation), Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, AK
2018 Familiarity in a Forgotten Place (Installation), CityCenterDC, Washington D.C.
2017 Individually and Collectively, The Barnlight, Eugene, OR
2016 Swing it, Shake it, Make it (Lightbox Installation), Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2016 Space Place (Installation),OpenBox, Porto, Portugal
2015 Just Tell Me When (Installation), Cider Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2015 The Silence of Clean Sheets (Installation), Lawrence Public Library, Lawrence, KS
2015 Be Mindful of the Home (Installation), Urbanity, Iowa City, IA
2014 In the Making (Installation), RSVP, Iowa City, IA
2010 "What the Hell was I Thinking?", Invisible Hand Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Group Exhibitions | Selected
2024 VisionMakers Biennial, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK
2024 PULP, Paper in its Widest Uses, Make Southwest, Devon, UK
2024 Silently Uneven, Johnson County Library, Kansas City, KS
2023 POV|POINT OF VIEW, Salina Arts Center, Salina, KS
2023 Can I Take A Message?, PLUG Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2022 The Life You’ve Seen, Weinberger Fine Art, Kansas City, MO
2021 Coalesce Fashion Show, Kansas City Artist Coalition, City Market, Kansas City, MO
2020 Salina Biennial, Salina Arts Center, Salina, KS
2018 Myriad, Apex Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2018 Dear Future, PS1, Iowa City, IA
2017 12''X12'', The Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS (Juried)
2016 Something Fleeting, KU Visual Arts Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2015 AND, University of Iowa, IA, University of Tennessee, TN, University of Wisconsin, WI
2014 Young Woman Artists, Wonder Fair, Lawrence, KS
2014 PaperCuts, Johnson County Research Library, Overland Park, KS
2014 Divine (Juried Show), Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2013 High Tide, Moon Side, Percolator Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2013 Seed Co Presents, Studio B, Kansas City, MO
2013 String Theories, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS
2012 Later Y'all, Kaw Collective, Kansas City, MO
2012 Glimpse, Flash Art Space, Kansas City, MO
2012 Here we were, Here we are, The Bourgeois Pig, Lawrence, KS
2012 Lawrence Arts Center Annual Auction, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2011 Ink Control, Backspace, Portland, OR
2011Yea Big!, Stumptown Printers, Portland, OR
2011 Represent, Evil Prints Studio, St. Louis, MO
2010 Stupid Heavy, The Bourgeois Pig, Lawrence, KS
2010 Illusion, Disillusion, Impression, Reality (Juried Shoow), Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, KS
2009 I Think We Are Making Progress, Wonderfair Art Shoppe & Studio, Lawrence, KS
2009 Salty Dogs, Red Door Gallery, Kansas City, KS
2008 The International Exchange Exhibition of Prints, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
Performance
2019 Endlng, shadow puppet performance for Johanna Winters, Open Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Narrow Witness, shadow puppet performance for Johanna Winters, The Drugstore, Kansas City, MO
2018 The Middle Tell, shadow puppet performance for Johanna Winters, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
Collections
The Arm LetterPress, Brooklyn, NY
Portfolios
2017 Preservation, Lawrence Arts Center-Print Week, Lawrence, KS
2011 What I am Making Right Now, I Was Thinking Last Week, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, & KCAI, Kansas City, MO
2010 Represent, Dirty Printmakers of America, displayed at Tom Huck's studio-"Evil Prints", Southern Graphics Council, St. Louis, MO
Education
2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Printmaking, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS