ABOUT — Gerard & Kelly

American artists based in Paris since 2018, Gerard & Kelly have collaborated for two decades on performance, film/video, and installation, among other formats. Having collectively studied ballet, visual art, literature, and gender studies, Gerard & Kelly use conceptual strategies in art to examine broader themes of memory and history, sexuality and subjectivity. Their questions are often set against a particular architectural space, pushing the related sociocultural and political precedents of the site into an open engagement with their work.

Brennan Gerard was born in Ohio in 1978, and Ryan Kelly was born in Pennsylvania in 1979. They were Van Lier Fellows of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and graduated with MFAs from the Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2013. Ruins, their first solo show in a European institution, was presented at Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes in 2022-2023. Solo exhibitions and performances of their work have been presented by Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence (2024), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023), MAMCO, Geneva (2020), MOCA, Los Angeles (2020), Festival d’Automne, Paris (2017 and 2019), The Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2019), Pioneer Works, New York (2018), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016), New Museum, New York (2014), and The Kitchen, New York (2014).

They participated in the 2023 NGV Triennial at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the 2017 and 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the 2014 Made in L.A. Biennial at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Their work has been included in group exhibitions at Collection Lambert, Avignon (2023), FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon (2022), High Line, New York (2023), and Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York (2015), among others. Gerard & Kelly have received numerous awards and grants, including the VIA Art Fund (2024), Mondes nouveaux program of the French Ministry of Culture (2023), Graham Foundation (2014), and Art Matters (2013). Their works are held in the permanent collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; FRAC Franche- Comté, Besançon; Carré d'Art, Nîmes; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

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