Jean-Paul Kelly (Full version)

Education:

Masters of Visual Studies (M.V.S.), University of Toronto, 2005
B.F.A., Honors Studio Art, University of Western Ontario, 2001

Grants & Awards:

Toronto Arts Council Media Artists Grant – Level One, 2007
Ontario Arts Council Media Arts Grant – Emerging Artists, 2006
David Buller Memorial Scholarship, 2004
University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship (2 Years), 2003 & 2004
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2002

Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions:

And fastened to a dying animal, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada, October 2008.

Video Art is Queer, commissioned video works for Pride Toronto 2008. Curated by Sharon Switzer.

art-action: rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid: Paris, France, Nov. 23 – Dec. 2, 2006; Madrid, Spain, April 28 – May 5, 2007; Mitte, Berlin, Germany, June 25th – 30th 2007.

Contemporary Canadian Video Collection, remo, Naniwa-ku Osaka-shi, Japan, May 2006; V-Lounge: Canadian Videoart Channel, Vol. 3, Videoart Centre Tokyo/Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo/Shibuya, Japan, March 2006, May 2006; + video awards 2005, + Gallery, Konan/Nagoya, Japan, July 2005. Curated by Shinobu Akimoto.

Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp), Fennel Plunger Corporation: Jean-Paul Kelly, Steve Reinke and Anne Walk. Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada, June 2005.

Catherine Heard, Jean-Paul Kelly and Craig Leonard: University of Toronto MVS Programme Inaugural Graduating Exhibition 2005. University Art Centre, University of Toronto, April 2005. Curated by Peggy Gale.

The New Everyday (The Day Before Tomorrow), videos by Jean-Paul Kelly, Dani Leventhal, Harrell Fletcher, George Kuchar. Pleasure Dome, at CineCycle, Toronto, Canada, Nov. 2004. Curated by Steve Reinke.