b. 1986, Washington D.C.
Lives and Works in London
Teaching Resume (PDF)
Education
University of Oxford, Wadham College, Ruskin School of Art (2020- Present) DPhil Fine Art (Practice-Led)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015) M.A. Visual & Critical Studies, M.F.A. Painting & Drawing
Oberlin College (2008) B.A. Majors: Studio Art (Honors), African American Studies/Minor: Environmental Studies
The Oxbow School (2003)
Solo Exhibitions
(2021) What will the future look like?, Ballad of Peckham Rye, London, U.K.
(2020) In the studio, Demo Room, Aarhus, Denmark
(2019) Exceptional Promise, Dirty House, London, U.K.
In the studio, Bill’s Auto, Chicago, U.S.A.
Old Town Road, Royal Academy Schools, London, U.K.
HELP (Is anyone an artist?), PROJECT SPACE FESTIVAL with Crybaby, Berlin, Germany
(2018) Out, Stanley Brown Jewelist, Chicago, U.S.A.
Up like a sun, down like a pancake., Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore, Baltimore, U.S.A.
Omission, The Flight Deck, Oakland, U.S.A.
(2017) How can I not write satire., Shane Campbell Gallery, Lincoln Park, Chicago, U.S.A.
(2016) Gift Baskets by Occasion, The Mission Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
(2015) Western Pole: Kelly Lloyd, Western & Iowa, Chicago, U.S.A.
Fall Studio 3325 Artist-in-Residence, Grace Church, Chicago, U.S.A.
(2014) Trunk Show: Kelly Lloyd, Palmer Square Park, Chicago, U.S.A.
(2013) Fiction Breeds Compassion, Visual & Critical Studies Project Space, Chicago, U.S.A.
(2012) Kelly Lloyd: A Retrospective, The Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, U.S.A.
(2008) Syrup of Ipecac, Fisher Gallery, Oberlin, U.S.A.
(2007) Crocodile Tears, Wits University Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa
(2003) In Color & Clay, The Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, U.S.A.
Group Exhibitions
2023
Decolonising Computing, Ruskin Project Space, Oxford, U.K.
Loading Bay, National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland
2022
** CURB ALERT **, Cosmos Carl, Online & Sudbury, U.S.A.
I feel like a bootlegger’s wife. Look!, Apparatus Project, Chicago, U.S.A.
2021
Speculative Magenta Hauntology, RUSCHWOMAN, Chicago, U.S.A.
Royal Society of British Artists’ RISING STARS, The Royal Over-Seas League, London, U.K.
2020
Templates for Public Art 3, Limited Time Engagement, Chicago, U.S.A.
Do-Over, Good Sport, London, Canada
2019
The best place at the party is the kitchen, Pool Party, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
You Walk Into, Rainbo Club, Chicago, U.S.A.
COURSES, Sprechgesang Institute, New York, U.S.A.
Fuzzy Transposition, MONACO, St. Louis, U.S.A.
Do-Over, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, U.S.A.
COMPACTO, Ugly Duck, London, U.K.
PACTO x Metaxu Books, Poster Project, Tooting, U.K.
2018
COMPACTO
Malden Road, London, U.K.
TækkerAIR, Aarhus, Denmark
MilesKM, Artlicks Festival, Filet, London, U.K
Matt Morris: Splitsville smells like irises, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Black Blooded, The New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, U.S.A.
KulturKontakt Austria AiR, Federal Chancellery, Vienna, Austria
HOMEWORK, Glurns Art Point, Glurns, Italy
Transcultural Emancipation, Fluc, Vienna, Austria
Public Space Camp, Compound Yellow, Oak Park, U.S.A.
1,500,000,000,000, triumph, Chicago, U.S.A.
Eclipsing, Arts Incubator, Chicago, U.S.A.
2017
Outside Jokes, DEMO Projects, Springfield, U.S.A.
chips in the night: this holiday season, 2017 Terrain Biennial, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
Fleeting Monuments to the Wall of Respect, Museum of Vernacular Arts, Zürich, Switzerland
CAKE + ART, Beehold Cakes, Lafayette, U.S.A.
Painting Not Painting, 'sindikit, Baltimore, U.S.A.
Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition, Decker & Meyerhoff Galleries, Baltimore, U.S.A.
The Dangerous Professors, Triumph, Chicago, U.S.A.
Standards Variance, Public Access, Chicago, U.S.A.
Office Hours: It's Just Business, Corner Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
Proximity to Dead Skin: Kahlon, The Cut Up Series, EMP Collective, Baltimore, U.S.A.
2016
New Business, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, U.S.A.
Habeas Corpus, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, U.S.A.
Re:Place, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, U.S.A.
Steady State, Carus Gallery, Cleveland, U.S.A.
Contempo Casuals, IDEALTY, Chicago, U.S.A.
Shared History, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, U.S.A.
Art Forms in Flux, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago, U.S.A.
Your Body is a Battleground, Weinberg Newton Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
Sabina Ott: Who Cares for the Sky?, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, U.S.A.
2015
I Can’t Breathe, ARC Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
The Dissemination of Blind Light, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago, U.S.A.
Terrorists in the Library, President’s Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
Logan Square Arts Festival, Pierre’s Bakery, Chicago, U.S.A.
People’s Pamphlets, Printer’s Ball, Chicago, U.S.A.
Kelly Lloyd and Alex Bradley Cohen, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
Acerbunundrum, Ballroom Projects, Chicago, U.S.A.
Closer Still, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, U.S.A.
18th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
MPSTN Edition, Fox River Grove, U.S.A.
The Longest Distance Between Two Places, Hyperlink Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
2014
Ground Floor, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, U.S.A.
Double Cherry, ThreeWalls, Chicago, U.S.A.
RETREAT- organized by Theaster Gates, Valerie Carberry Gallery & Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
Surface Tension, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, U.S.A.
Trunk Show: Stephanie Barber, Baltimore Alternative Art Fair, Baltimore, U.S.A.
BAUDY, ADDS DONNA, Chicago, U.S.A.
2014 MFA Thesis Presentations, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, U.S.A.
AFTER PARTY, Leroy Neiman Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
Sexy Can I: 8 failed and successful romances, Third Object (2nd Floor Rear Festival), Chicago, U.S.A.
2013
Meandering, Hard Gallery (2nd Floor Rear Festival), Chicago, U.S.A.
2012
Post-‐Baccalaureate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, U.S.A.
Clothes Line, LAWN* Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
2011
Roger’s Grocery, Mess Hall, Chicago, U.S.A.
Performances/Lectures
“She’s like a rainbow” Black Arts Movement School Modality- Milan: The Rainbow, MUDEC, Milan, Italy May 2023
“In through the back door: Present” MAO Lates, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, U.K. November 2022
“Present” PRESENT, Online May 2022
“Responsibilities of Care” Speaking of Art Seminar, Department of Art History University of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A. February 2020
“HAIR CLUB: Material Stories: Hair” The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, U.S.A. May 2020
"4-5 Proposal Papers" Art Licks Weekend 2019, Dirty House, London, U.K. October 2019
“The Private Working Lives of Contemporary Artists” Private Life Conference, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland July 2019
“International Introvert” Eleni Zaharopoulos & Flux Factory: Strictly Business Martini Auction, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark September 2018
"Office Hours Offers Free Consultation ($200 Value)" It's Just Business, Corner, Chicago, U.S.A. April 2017
"How Am I Not Sophie Calle?" Expanded Art History for Plants, U.I.C. Greenhouse, Chicago, U.S.A. April 2016
MCA- Live, ACRE TV, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, U.S.A. April 2016
"Eye Exam: Races, Places and Art's Useful Violence: Extended Edition" Structures of Violence: Engaging the April 2016
Public Imagination: George Mason University Public Sociology Conference, Arlington, U.S.A.
"Notes on Facebook and Self Preservation" Wax Long: Health, Archer Beach House, Chicago, U.S.A. February 2016
“Picture Titles” Terrorists in the Library, President’s Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A. November 2015
“Proposal Papers” Discipline and Doctrine: U.I.C. Art History Graduate Conference, Gallery 400, Chicago, U.S.A. October 2015
"Sexy Man Artists" SKETCHBOOK: LIVE TO TAPE ARTIST TELEVISION FESTIVAL, Links Hall, Chicago, U.S.A. May 2015
"Sexy Man Artists" Desire: A Soapbox Lecture, Kavi Gupta Editions, Chicago, U.S.A. April 2015
“HAIR CLUB” Collaborative Research Symposium, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A. April 2015
"Hot Dudes Reading" Elementary Reading, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, U.S.A. March 2015
“Crush PPT” Sexy Can I: 8 failed and successful romances, Third Object (2nd Floor Rear Festival), Chicago, U.S.A. November 2014
"Katie Sokoler- Your Construction Paper Tears Can't Hide Your Yayoi Kusama Grade Neurotic Underbelly" October 2014
3rd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group: The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness Panel, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
"Sexy Man Artists" Midwest Popular Culture and American Culture Association, Indianapolis, U.S.A. October 2014
"4-5 Proposal Papers" Inaugural Graduate Conference: Process: in medias res, May 2014
Harvard Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Cambridge, U.S.A.
Publications
“An Oral History with jina valentine by Kelly Lloyd” BOMB Magazine (Winter 2023).
“You” Art Review Oxford Issue 4: Precarity (Spring 2022).
“This is the End of High Entertainment: Tiny Furniture and This is The End”, Through a Glass, Darkly: Screening the Art World, Amsterdam University
Press (Spring 2022).
“HAIR CLUB: Towards a Hair Studies Discipline”, Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond: Alternative Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Art
History, Palgrave Macmillan (2021).
“Living Within the Play”, PUBLIC JOURNAL ISSUE 62: Currencies of Hospitality (2021).
“Dear someone who cares about self care”, Gentle stranger, I hope this email finds you well, Künstler, Künstlerin (2020).
“Mrs. Malin’s Bill”, POME, Seattle Freezer (2019).
“Tear-Off Flyers & Billboards”, Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect, Green Lantern Press (2019).
“Artist Statement”, Nobody Knows, “:pillow (2018).
“Dear Theaster…” Notes on Negro Progress, Art Gallery Ontario (2017).
"Katie Sokoler Your Construction Paper Tears Can't Hide Your Yayoi Kusama Neurotic Underbelly", The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness,
punctum press (October 2017).
"Hottest Summer on Record in America.", Netcapsule (January 2, 2017).
"Application to Nowhere", A Rule By Nobody, Third Object Publication (November 2016).
"Blacking Out Art History", MCA Blog (October 11, 2016).
"Comedians Playing Themselves", LIVE TO TAPE, Lt. Paper Issue #3 (May 2015).
"Cute Camo", Mossy Cloak, Third Object Publication (February 2015)
Residencies
PRAKSIS, Oslo, Norway June 2024
USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway April - May 2024
The White Pube, Online April 2022
Flat Time House, London, U.K. April - September 2021
The Poor Farm, Little Wolf, U.S.A. August 2019
Mhor Farr, Laide, Scotland March 2019
Aarhus Center for Visual Art, Aarhus, Denmark September/October 2018
Glurns Art Point, Glurns, Italy June 2018
Kulturkontakt Austria, Vienna, Austria April- June 2018
index, Zurich, Switzerland September/October 2017
PACTO, Athens, Greece/Galicia, Spain/Milan, Italy 2017 - 2018
Corner, Chicago, U.S.A. April/May 2017
Project 387, Gualala, U.S.A. July/August 2016
Studio 3325, Grace Church, Chicago, U.S.A. Fall 2015
HATCH Projects, Chicago Artists Coalition, U.S.A. 2014-2015
Ox-bow, Saugatuck, U.S.A. July 2015
ACRE, Steuben, U.S.A. July 2015
Elsewhere, Greensboro, U.S.A. June 2014
(Awarded, Not Attended) The Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap, U.S.A.); Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, U.S.A.); Can Serrat (Barcelona, Spain); ZK/U (Berlin, Germany); Open Space (Feutersoey, Switzerland); Drake Arts Centre (Kokkola, Finland); This Will Take Time (Point Arena, U.S.A.); Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap, U.S.A.)
Grants/ Scholarships/Fellowships/Awards
Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship, University of Oxford, Arts & Humanities Research Council, Oxford, U.K October 2021 – Present
All Souls Graduate AHRC Fellowship, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K October 2021 – Present
Project Grant, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford, U.K. September 2022 - Present
Oberlin College Alumni Fellowship, Oberlin College, Oberlin, U.S.A. March 2020
The Rothermere American Institute Research and Travel Award, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K. March 2020
Alpha Kappa Alpha Graduate Scholarship, Chicago, U.S.A. March 2020
Project Grant, Arts Council England, U.K. December 2020
Senior Scholarship, Wadham College, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K. October 2020
Above Four Fund, TILA Studios, Atlanta, U.K. October 2020
Gane Grant, The Gane Trust, Bristol, U.K. October 2020
STEP Travel Grant, European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands November 2019
Workweek Prize- Art Licks Weekend 2019, Artquest, London, U.K. October 2019
Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, U.S.A. October 2019
The Starr Fellowship, Royal Academy Schools, London, U.K. 2018-2019
The Center Program: Ground Floor Artist Scholarship, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, U.S.A. February - June 2016
Propeller Fund Grant: HAIR CLUB, ThreeWalls, Chicago, U.S.A. 2015- 2016
Dean’s Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A. 2012-2015
Incentive Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A. 2012-2015
Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research: HAIR CLUB, The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center 2014-2015
for Research and Collaboration, Chicago, U.S.A.
Lalla Anne Critz Zanzi Scholarship, Ox-bow, Saugatuck, U.S.A. Summer 2013
Oberlin Shansi Fellow, Madurai, India 2009-2011
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow, Oberlin College, Oberlin, U.S.A. 2006-2008
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Library Fellow, Oberlin College/Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C., U.S.A. 2007-2008
Artistic and Academic Achievement, African-American Studies Department, Oberlin College, Oberlin, U.S.A. 2008
Eva Young-Hunter Scholarship, Oberlin College, Oberlin, U.S.A. 2007-2008
Lois Schmidt Scholarship, Oberlin College, Oberlin, U.S.A. 2007-2008
Charles Blackwell Scholarship, Oberlin College, Oberlin, U.S.A. 2005-2008
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Dagmara Genda, “When the Private Becomes Public: Transforming the Home Into An Exhibition Space”, Berlin Art Link (Sept. 27, 2019).
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