Kelly Kaczynski is a Chicago-based artist, curator, and writer working within the language of sculpture. Their most recent collaborative artwork premiered at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, US Pavillion, Italy. Selected exhibitions include Julius Caesar, IL; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, IL; Peregrine Program, IL; Songs for Presidents, NY; Ortega y Gasset Projects, NY; Soap Factory, MN; Comfort Station, IL; Gahlberg Gallery, IL; threewalls, IL; Hyde Park Art Center, IL; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, NY; Triple Candie, NY; Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NY; DeCordova Museum, MA; Boston Center for the Arts, MA.
Public installations include projects with the Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA; the Interfaith Center, NY; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston and the Boston National Historic Parks, MA; Boston Public Library, MA. Collaborative curatorial projects include “the chair” of Tete-a-Tete-a-Tete, Chicago; Living Within the Play with Poor Farm Experiment, WI, USA, and Perugia, Italy, 2019-ongoing; Manatee at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 2018; and the 2014 exhibition, Roving Room at Habersham Mills, GA. Independent curation includes Virtually Physically Speaking at Columbia College, Chicago, IL, and the 2011 exhibition Mouthing (a sentient limb) at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL.
Recipient of Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award ’15; Artadia, Chicago ’08; Visible Republic, Boston, ’00. Kaczynski received an MFA from Bard College, NY and BA from The Evergreen State College, WA. Kaczynski is Professor, Adjunct, in the Sculpture Department, and Assistant Director for the Low Residency MFA Program with the School of the Art Institute, Chicago.
Selected Works:
Tilted (Twinned) Stages, 2013
Dimension of stages built to fit: 4′ x 14′ 3″” x 32′ and 4′ x 15′ x 32′
Soap Factory, Minnesota, USA
Leopold Benches: A P(o)or(t)ch Theatre, 2025
Three performances over three days at two hours each, morning, midday, and dusk
A collaboration with Michelle Grabner, Mark Jeffery, Kelly Kaczynski, Brad Killam, Judd Morrissey, and Kristin Mariani
19th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, US Pavilion, Venice, Italy
