Kelly Richardson

Richardson was born August 2, 1972, in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.{{cite web|title=Famous Guelphites|url=https://www.guelphpl.ca/archives/famous_person.cfm?id=121|website=Guelph Public Library|accessdate=20 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222054348/https://www.guelphpl.ca/archives/famous_person.cfm?id=121|archive-date=22 February 2017|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Kelly Richardson|url=https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?rID=43495&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=1&an=Kelly+Richardson&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC|website=Artists in Canada|accessdate=20 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034034/https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?rID=43495&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=1&an=Kelly+Richardson&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=dead}} From 1994 to 1997, she studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, Ontario. In 2002, she relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia for her Master of Fine Arts in Media Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. In 2003, she moved to the United Kingdom taking up residence in the northeast where she also completed her master's degree at Newcastle University with distinction.{{Cite web|title=Kelly Richardson|url=https://artpace.org/artists_and_curators/kelly-richardson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140507181857/https://artpace.org/artists_and_curators/kelly-richardson|archive-date=May 7, 2014|access-date=2020-07-04|website=artpace.org|publisher=Artpace}}

Richardson works with video and digital photography to create hyper-real landscapes. Her work "adopts the use of cinematic language to investigate notions of constructed environments and the blurring of the real versus the unreal. She creates contemplative spaces which offer visual metaphors for the sensations associated with the hugely complicated world we have created for ourselves, magnificent and equally dreadful."*[http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/fall08/sept08.html Pace Digital Gallery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527233723/http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/fall08/sept08.html |date=2009-05-27 }} As David Jager noted in Canadian Art,{{cite magazine| last = Jager| first = David| title = Kelly Richardson: The Radiant Real| magazine=Canadian Art| url =http://www.canadianart.ca/art/features/2009/09/01/kelly-richardson/| accessdate = 2009-11-12| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091204020346/http://www.canadianart.ca/art/features/2009/09/01/kelly-richardson/| archive-date = 2009-12-04| url-status = dead}}

Richardson deploys a formidable range of techniques and a broad palette of approaches in her creation of a new aesthetic, one that elicits a euphoric suspension of disbelief, allowing viewers to delve into the increasingly ambiguous and complex juncture between the real and the represented. She has transformed video, once a self-consciously minimal, anti-cinematic, bare-bones practice, into something much richer, and much stranger.

In 2012, a 15-year retrospective exhibition of her work entitled Legion was organised by and premiered at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in England. The retrospective then toured to the Grundy Art Gallery (UK), Towner (UK), and Albright-Knox Art Gallery (USA).

In 2017, she joined the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Victoria as a professor. Prior to this, she had worked as a Lecturer in Fine Art at Newcastle University.

In 2023, three of Richardson's pieces – Origin Stories, Origin Stories (AR), and Halo – were featured in the music video for the Metallica song "72 Seasons".{{cite news|last=Goodyear|first=Sheena|title=B.C. artist blown away to see her work featured in new Metallica video|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/kelly-richardson-metallica-1.6805244|agency=CBC Radio|date=April 10, 2023|orig-date=Originally published April 7, 2023|access-date=April 15, 2023}}

• Attenborough Arts Centre, "Mariner 9", Leicester, UK (2020){{cite web|last=Unwin|first=Adam|title=Kelly Richardson: Mariner 9 launch|url=https://attenborougharts.com/kelly-richardson-mariner-9-launch/|publisher=Attenborough Arts Centre|date=March 6, 2020|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, "Tales on the Horizon", Scottsdale, Arizona, USA (2015){{cite web|title=Kelly Richardson: Tales on the Horizon|url=https://smoca.org/exhibition/kelly-richardson-tales-on-the-horizon/|publisher=SMoCA|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Natural History Museum, Vienna, "Mariner 9", Vienna, Austria (2014){{cite web|url=https://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en/mariner_9_hall_50|title=Mariner 9 (hall 50)|publisher=Natural History Museum, Vienna|date=November 6, 2013|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, "Kelly Richardson: Legion" (retrospective), Eastbourne, UK (2013){{cite web|url=https://buffaloakg.org/art/exhibitions/kelly-richardson-legion|title=Kelly Richardson: Legion|publisher=Buffalo AKG Art Museum|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Towner Art Gallery, "Legion" (retrospective), Eastbourne, UK (2013){{cite web|url=https://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/exhibition/kelly-richardson/|title=Kelly Richardson: Legion|publisher=Towner Art Gallery|access-date=2019-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430203816/https://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/exhibition/kelly-richardson/|archive-date=2019-04-30|url-status=dead}}
• Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, "Legion" (retrospective), Sunderland, UK (2012)
• Le Fresnoy, "Visions Fugitives", Tourcoing, France (2012){{cite web|last=Champesme|first=Marie-Thérèse|url=https://www.lefresnoy.net/visionsfugitives/indexEN.htm|title=Visions Fugitives|publisher=Le Fresnoy|access-date=April 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912123049/https://www.lefresnoy.net/visionsfugitives/indexEN.htm|archive-date=September 12, 2014|url-status=live}}
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, "Videosphere: A New Generation", Buffalo, New York (2011){{cite web|url=https://buffaloakg.org/art/exhibitions/videosphere-new-generation|title=Videosphere: A New Generation|publisher=Buffalo AKG Art Museum|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Artpace, "Leviathan", San Antonio, Texas (2011){{Cite web|last=Freeman|first=Alexander|url=https://artpace.org/exhibitions/leviathan/|title=Leviathan|access-date=April 15, 2023|publisher=Artpace}}
• Art Gallery of Ontario, "Sculpture as Time: Major works. New Acquisitions.", Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2010){{cite web|url=https://ago.ca/exhibitions/sculpture-time-major-works.-new-acquisitions.|title=Sculpture as Time: Major works. New Acquisitions.|publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario|access-date=April 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923112309/https://ago.ca/exhibitions/sculpture-time-major-works.-new-acquisitions.|archive-date=September 23, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier on Main, Park City, Utah, USA (2009){{Cite web |url=https://history.sundance.org/people/64613|title=Kelly Richardson|publisher=Sundance Film Festival|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Beijing 798 Biennale, Constellations: The Man Who Fell to Earth, Beijing, China (2009){{cite web|url=https://artfacts.net/exhibition/constellations:-the-first-beijing-798-biennale/195857|title=Constellations: The First Beijing 798 Biennale|website=ArtFacts.Net|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image – Part 1: Dreams, Washington, D.C., USA (2008){{cite web|url=https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/the-cinema-effect-illusion-reality-and-the-moving-image-part-1-dreams/|title=The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image – Part 1: Dreams|publisher=Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Busan Biennale, Expenditure, Busan, South Korea (2008){{cite web|title='Expenditure,' Theme of Busan Biennale 2008|url=https://www.busan.go.kr/eng/bsnews01/796237|date=January 31, 2008|publisher=Busan Metropolitan City|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Hallwalls, The Edge of Everything, Buffalo, New York, USA (2008){{cite web|title=Kelly Richardson – The Edge of Everything|url=https://www.hallwalls.org/pubs/85.html|last=Massier|first=John|year=2008|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Exiles of the Shattered Star, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (2007){{cite web|url=https://moisdelaphoto.com/en/artistes/kelly-richardson/|title=Kelly Richardson|publisher=Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Gwangju Biennale, A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water, Busan, South Korea (2004){{cite web|url=https://www.gwangjubiennale.org/en/archive/past/5.do?subPageCode=author&Cmenucode=03|title=5th Biennale(2004)|publisher=Gwangju Biennale Foundation|access-date=April 15, 2023}}

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA{{cite web|title=Kelly Richardson|url=https://www.albrightknox.org/person/kelly-richardson|website=Albright-Knox Art Gallery|accessdate=20 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222054252/https://www.albrightknox.org/person/kelly-richardson|archive-date=22 February 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.birchcontemporary.com/artist/kelly-richardson/cv|title=Kelly Richardson CV|via=Birch Contemporary|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
• Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Arts Council Collection, England
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
• Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
• The Collection: Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, UK
• Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK

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• [http://www.kellyrichardson.net Official website]

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