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Biography

Known for his appropriation of iconic cultural images, Kelley Walker (b. 1969, Columbus, GA) examines the circulation and consumption of visual culture using techniques of collage, screen-printing, sculpture, and installation. His work has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions both within the U.S. and abroad, including a museum retrospective at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in 2016. Other important one-person exhibitions have taken place at Le Magasin – Centre National d’art Contemporain, Grenoble, which traveled to the Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (2007); MAMCO, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (2017); and Le Mur Consortium in Paris (2017). In 2013, Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria organized Wade Guyton, Guyton\Walker, Kelley Walker, the first joint presentation of the artists alongside their collaborative identity. Walker has participated in many notable group exhibitions including Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age at the Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015); Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artist, Fifty Years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); Here is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); Continuous Project at Modern Art Oxford, United Kingdom (2007); Whitney Biennial 2006; 7th Annual Sharjah Biennial (2005); and Greater New York 2005 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. His work has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and Sammlung Goetz, Munich.

Selected Works

Selected Works Thumbnails
Kelly Walker Roxy Music Fucked, 2016 acrylic ink, blue tape, Beva, MDF panel, Plexiglas on silkscreen on aluminum frame 64 x 42 in. (162.6 x 106.7 cm)

Kelly Walker
Roxy Music Fucked, 2016
acrylic ink, blue tape, Beva, MDF panel, Plexiglas on silkscreen on aluminum frame
64 x 42 in. (162.6 x 106.7 cm)

Kelly Walker Incomprehensible 'strike' fail, spiral.. blue noise, 2017 acrylic ink and graphite on silkscreen on aluminum frame 64 x 42 x 1 1/2 in. (162.6 x 106.7 x 3.8 cm)

Kelly Walker
Incomprehensible 'strike' fail, spiral.. blue noise, 2017
acrylic ink and graphite on silkscreen on aluminum frame
64 x 42 x 1 1/2 in. (162.6 x 106.7 x 3.8 cm)

Kelly Walker Screen to Screen 30x40_42, 2014 acrylic ink on silkscreen on aluminum frame 40 x 30 x 1.5 in. (101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm)

Kelly Walker
Screen to Screen 30x40_42, 2014
acrylic ink on silkscreen on aluminum frame
40 x 30 x 1.5 in. (101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm)

Kelly Walker Kraftwerk.skin, 2016 Acrylic ink and polyester primer on aluminum 9 x 10 x 12 in. (22.9 x 25.4 x 30.5 cm)

Kelly Walker
Kraftwerk.skin, 2016
Acrylic ink and polyester primer on aluminum
9 x 10 x 12 in. (22.9 x 25.4 x 30.5 cm)

Kelly Walker Pioneer PL-518 Inch Series G1, 2015 pantone and four-color process silkscreen on MDF 28 panels each: 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm) overall: 102 x 180 in. (259.1 x 457.2 cm)

Kelly Walker
Pioneer PL-518 Inch Series G1, 2015
pantone and four-color process silkscreen on MDF
28 panels each: 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm) overall: 102 x 180 in. (259.1 x 457.2 cm)

Kelly Walker Pioneer PL-518 Series... Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Chicago, Diana Ross, Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, 2017 four-color process silkscreen with acrylic ink on MDF 8 panels randomly placed, each: 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)

Kelly Walker
Pioneer PL-518 Series... Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Chicago, Diana Ross, Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, 2017
four-color process silkscreen with acrylic ink on MDF
8 panels randomly placed, each: 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)

Kelly Walker Circle in circle, 2006 cast chocolate with fiberglass and aquaresin wood and metal armature, motor, chain 12 in. diameter (30.5 cm diameter) Edition of 3

Kelly Walker
Circle in circle, 2006
cast chocolate with fiberglass and aquaresin
wood and metal armature, motor, chain
12 in. diameter (30.5 cm diameter)
Edition of 3

Kelly Walker Untitled, 2007 Laser cut steel with gold leaf and digital print, aluminum stand 58 inches in diameter (147.3 cm diameter) x 1/8 in. (.3 cm); Stand: 57 x 36 x 36 in. (144.8 x 91.4 x 91.4 cm)

Kelly Walker
Untitled, 2007
Laser cut steel with gold leaf and digital print, aluminum stand
58 inches in diameter (147.3 cm diameter) x 1/8 in. (.3 cm); Stand: 57 x 36 x 36 in. (144.8 x 91.4 x 91.4 cm)

Kelly Walker I see a Space, Moth-shaped and Enclosed, 2004 mirrored acrylic/four panels 79 x 82 in. (200.7 x 208.3 cm)

Kelly Walker
I see a Space, Moth-shaped and Enclosed, 2004
mirrored acrylic/four panels
79 x 82 in. (200.7 x 208.3 cm)

Kelly Walker Maui, 1988, 2002, CD Rom; scanned image signed digital print on archival watercolor paper archival print: 24 x 36 in (61 x 91.4 cm) Edition of 5, 1AP,

Kelly Walker
Maui, 1988, 2002,
CD Rom; scanned image
signed digital print on archival watercolor paper
archival print: 24 x 36 in (61 x 91.4 cm)
Edition of 5, 1AP,

Kelly Walker Roxy Music Fucked, 2016 acrylic ink, blue tape, Beva, MDF panel, Plexiglas on silkscreen on aluminum frame 64 x 42 in. (162.6 x 106.7 cm)

Kelly Walker
Roxy Music Fucked, 2016
acrylic ink, blue tape, Beva, MDF panel, Plexiglas on silkscreen on aluminum frame
64 x 42 in. (162.6 x 106.7 cm)

Kelly Walker Incomprehensible 'strike' fail, spiral.. blue noise, 2017 acrylic ink and graphite on silkscreen on aluminum frame 64 x 42 x 1 1/2 in. (162.6 x 106.7 x 3.8 cm)

Kelly Walker
Incomprehensible 'strike' fail, spiral.. blue noise, 2017
acrylic ink and graphite on silkscreen on aluminum frame
64 x 42 x 1 1/2 in. (162.6 x 106.7 x 3.8 cm)

Kelly Walker Screen to Screen 30x40_42, 2014 acrylic ink on silkscreen on aluminum frame 40 x 30 x 1.5 in. (101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm)

Kelly Walker
Screen to Screen 30x40_42, 2014
acrylic ink on silkscreen on aluminum frame
40 x 30 x 1.5 in. (101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm)

Kelly Walker Kraftwerk.skin, 2016 Acrylic ink and polyester primer on aluminum 9 x 10 x 12 in. (22.9 x 25.4 x 30.5 cm)

Kelly Walker
Kraftwerk.skin, 2016
Acrylic ink and polyester primer on aluminum
9 x 10 x 12 in. (22.9 x 25.4 x 30.5 cm)

Kelly Walker Pioneer PL-518 Inch Series G1, 2015 pantone and four-color process silkscreen on MDF 28 panels each: 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm) overall: 102 x 180 in. (259.1 x 457.2 cm)

Kelly Walker
Pioneer PL-518 Inch Series G1, 2015
pantone and four-color process silkscreen on MDF
28 panels each: 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm) overall: 102 x 180 in. (259.1 x 457.2 cm)

Kelly Walker Pioneer PL-518 Series... Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Chicago, Diana Ross, Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, 2017 four-color process silkscreen with acrylic ink on MDF 8 panels randomly placed, each: 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)

Kelly Walker
Pioneer PL-518 Series... Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Chicago, Diana Ross, Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, 2017
four-color process silkscreen with acrylic ink on MDF
8 panels randomly placed, each: 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)

Kelly Walker Circle in circle, 2006 cast chocolate with fiberglass and aquaresin wood and metal armature, motor, chain 12 in. diameter (30.5 cm diameter) Edition of 3

Kelly Walker
Circle in circle, 2006
cast chocolate with fiberglass and aquaresin
wood and metal armature, motor, chain
12 in. diameter (30.5 cm diameter)
Edition of 3

Kelly Walker Untitled, 2007 Laser cut steel with gold leaf and digital print, aluminum stand 58 inches in diameter (147.3 cm diameter) x 1/8 in. (.3 cm); Stand: 57 x 36 x 36 in. (144.8 x 91.4 x 91.4 cm)

Kelly Walker
Untitled, 2007
Laser cut steel with gold leaf and digital print, aluminum stand
58 inches in diameter (147.3 cm diameter) x 1/8 in. (.3 cm); Stand: 57 x 36 x 36 in. (144.8 x 91.4 x 91.4 cm)

Kelly Walker I see a Space, Moth-shaped and Enclosed, 2004 mirrored acrylic/four panels 79 x 82 in. (200.7 x 208.3 cm)

Kelly Walker
I see a Space, Moth-shaped and Enclosed, 2004
mirrored acrylic/four panels
79 x 82 in. (200.7 x 208.3 cm)

Kelly Walker Maui, 1988, 2002, CD Rom; scanned image signed digital print on archival watercolor paper archival print: 24 x 36 in (61 x 91.4 cm) Edition of 5, 1AP,

Kelly Walker
Maui, 1988, 2002,
CD Rom; scanned image
signed digital print on archival watercolor paper
archival print: 24 x 36 in (61 x 91.4 cm)
Edition of 5, 1AP,