Jean-Paul Kelly (b. 1977, London, Canada) is an artist based in Toronto. He creates drawings, photographs, and videos that are often displayed together. Through an exploration of allegorical storytelling his works engage with issues of representation and subjectivity, focusing on the gap between a material relation to the world and a lived experience. His work has been exhibited at Gallery TPW (Toronto), Mercer Union (Toronto), Ed Video (Guelph, Canada), as part of Coming After at The Power Plant (Toronto) Showcase.09 at Cambridge Galleries (Cambridge, Canada), and at various international arts festivals. Kelly holds a Masters of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. He has taught courses at U of T, OCADU and Ryerson University and is Programming Director of Trinity Square Video (Toronto).