Kelly Mark
1967 - 2025
Born: Welland, Ontario
BFA with a Minor in Art History: Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 1994
Art Diploma: The Dundas Valley School of Art, 1991
Has exhibited widely across Canada, and internationally. Such venues include: The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Power Plant (Toronto), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), The Darling Foundry (Montreal), Musee d'Art Contemporain (Montreal); MSVU Art Gallery (Halifax), Bass Museum (Miami), University of Houston (Texas), Real Art Ways (Hartford), The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Ikon Gallery (UK), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Scotland), The Physics Room (NZ), Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art (Belgium) ... Represented Canada at The Sydney Biennale (1998) and Liverpool Biennale (2006).
Is represented in the public collections of The National Gallery of Canada, The Canada Council Art Bank, Canadian Foreign Affairs, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Musee D'Art Contemporain and many other public, corporate and private collections.
Recipient of numerous Canada, Ontario & Toronto Arts Council grants as well as the KM Hunter Artist Award, and Chalmers Art Fellowship.
Works in a variety of media including: sculpture, video, installation, drawing, photography, sound, multiples, performance & public interventions.
Artist Code: 2186
Videography
Trying to Remember, Sometimes Wishing I Could Forget
2016, 33:03 minutes, colour, silent
2014, 10:13 minutes, colour, English
Public Disturbance HB Series: Take 1, Take 2, Take 3
2010, 16:19 minutes, colour, English
2007, 15:00 minutes, colour, silent
2007, 136:36 minutes, colour, English
2005, colour, silent
2002, 49:16 minutes, English
2000, 15:00 minutes, colour, silent
1999, 07:30 minutes, colour, sound (no dialogue)
1996, 33:00 minutes, colour, silent
Critical Writing
Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2018.
by . Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Spring 2018, v. 27, no. 1. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
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by . Halifax: NP, 2013.
by . Border Crossings, 2009, v. 28, no. 110.
Border Crossings, Feb. 2008, v. 27, no. 105.
by . Montréal: VOX, 2008.
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by . Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 2006.
by . Liverpool: Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, 2006.
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by and . Art Voice (AV), May 16, 2005.
by . The Globe and Mail, July 25, 2005.
by . Cambridge/Montreal: Cambridge Galleries, 2004.
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by . Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2001.
by . Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1997.
by . Halifax: Eyelevel Gallery, 1997.