Brian Kelly
Biography
Brian Kelly received an M.F.A. in Printmaking at Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ State Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, a B.F.A. in Printmaking from Northern Illinois Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, and a Certificate in Waterless Lithography from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography. Professor Kelly serves as Head of the Printmaking program and is Coordinator of Marais Press at UL Lafayette. Kelly holds the Universities Coca Cola/BORSF Endowed Professorship and has been recognized as a Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ at Lafayette Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ Distinguished Professor (2010), a UL Lafayette Eminent Faculty for Leadership and Service (2017), has received the Dr. Ray P. Authement Excellence in Teaching Award (2019), and the UL Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.
Kelly has presented and conducted over 70 printmaking workshops and lectures concerning his printmaking research at universities and museums throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada, and has held residences at GLATT/YMAGOS Atelier in São Paulo, Brazil.
Kelly’s prints have been included in over 500 exhibitions throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, China, Ireland, Australia, Brazil, Poland, England, Scotland, and Slovenia.
His prints have been included in museum and university collections that include the United States Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, Southern Graphics International Printmaking Archives, the Block Museum, the Spencer Museum of Art, The Hilliard Art Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Arizona Museum of Art, Arizona State Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ Art Museum, Museum of Texas Tech Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, Janet Turner Print Museum at the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of California Chico, the Northern Illinois Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ Art Museum, the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Aberystwyth, Monash Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, Print Australia Print Archives Australia, Limerick School of Art and Design, West Cork Arts Center in Skibbereen Co. Cork–Ireland, GLATT/YMAGOS Atelier, San Paulo, Brazil, the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Wisconsin at Madison, the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Colorado, Virginia Commonwealth Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Alabama, Eastern New Mexico Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, Murray State Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, Purdue Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Mississippi, Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of North Carolina at Pawbroke, The Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of South Florida, Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of South Dakota, Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of North Dakota, Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Miami at Florida, Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Central Florida, Miami Public Library, Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ State Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, Nicholls State Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, Southeastern Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, McNeese State Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ, among others.
Email: briankelly@louisiana.edu