| Asst Prof Joan Marie Kelly
Assistant Professor
School of Art, Design and Media
College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Email: JMKELLY@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6316 8929
Office: ART 3-12 |
| Education |
- MFA Western Connecticut State University 2005
- BFA Maryland Institute College of Art 1993
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| Biography |
| Assistant Professor Joan Marie Kelly has been a faculty member of the School of Art Design and Media since 2005. She attended Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and graduated Magna Cum laude with a BFA in Painting. Kelly received a MFA in Painting at Western Connecticut State. While in the USA besides painting many mural commissions, selling and exhibiting work, Kelly founded and directed an art studio for adults with disabilities. This studio is still successful today. Her introduction to Asia began in 1986 when she traveled to Indonesia carrying the pictures, letters and money from Indonesia foreign workers in New York to their families on Java. Presently, this thread has continued through portraits of people on the fringes of society in Asia. Her most recent exhibitions include solo exhibition at Blue Mountain Gallery New York City, titled, "The Public Art of Joan Kelly: Zones of Conflict, solo exhibition Oresman Gallery Smith College Mass. titled "Brothels of Rabindra Sarani, Portraits of Twenty Women” , and solo Exhibition title: “Initial Encounters” in the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, Curator, Alka Pande, the 2012, Biennale D’Arte Internationale Di Roma, Sale del Bramante and group exhibition, and group exhibition “Women” Ahuja, Museum for the Arts, Kolkata India, Curator Anvita Singh |
| Research Interests |
| Assistant Professor Joan Marie Kelly is an artist and has been a faculty member of the School of Art Design and Media since 2005. She received a Master in Fine Arts from Western Connecticut State University and a Bachelors Degree from Maryland Institute College of Art graduating Magna Cum Laude. Art critic, Paul Khoo states: "Kelly operates in zones of contact, a theme elaborated in the 2006 Sydney Biennale: places where competing narratives of power compete, where silences speak to unwritten histories. Kelly reinvents the body through the environment of these zones: be it the foreign worker chattels of Little India, the brothels of Calcutta, or the factory towns of the Shenzen Economic Zone. These zones mark the intersection of the grand narrative of globalization and progress with those of the lived reality of those at the bottom of the pyramid. The recent trip to Arunchal Pradesh brings Kelly to another zone, one where a traditional, rural economy clashes with the forces of globalization." Joan Kelly has a growing exhibition record. Recent exhibitions include: Rajamangala University of Technology 2010, Ahuja Museum Kolkata India 2010, Mae Fah Luang Art And Cultural park Thailand 2010, Kolkata Academy of Fine Arts Kolkata 2009, India Fauzia Museum, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2008, International Drawing Biennial in the Czech Republic October 2008. |
| Research Grant |
- Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (2013-)
- RCC (2006-)
- Start Up Grant (2007-)
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| Current Projects |
- Culture, Behaviour And Art Uncovered By The Development Of Tangible Interfaces In Interactive Visual Environments
| Selected Publications | - Title of Publication:VI International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2008 Publisher: University of West Bohemia in Pilsen & The Professional Association of Legal Entites, The biennial of Drawing Pilsen ISBN 978-80-7043-723-0. (2008). Singapore Taxi Drivers. VI International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2008, , Pg 66.
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