Kelli Connell Explained

Kelli Connell
Birth Place:Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Field:Photography
Training:Texas Woman's University[1]
Movement:Contemporary
Surrealist[2]

Kelli Connell (born 1974) is an American contemporary photographer. Connell is known for creating portraits, which may appear as self-portraits.[3] Her work is held in the collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Dallas Museum of Art.[4]

Early life and education

Kelli Connell was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[5] > Connell took her first photography class as a junior in high school, and was influenced early on by the work of Roni Horn, Francesca Woodman, and Larry Sultan.[6] She received her BFA in Photography and Visual Arts Studies at the University of North Texas.[5] In 2003, Connell received her Masters in Fine Arts in Photography and a minor in Art history from Texas Woman’s University.[5]

Artistic career

Connell became a photographer to explore how photography can raise questions. In 2011, Decode Books released her first monograph, Double Life, in which she presented 36 color photographs of two young women occupied in their day to day activities of pleasure and reflection. Double Life seeks to question ideas of identity, gender roles, and expectations made by society on the individual. The series, which depicts a woman in a romantic relationship with herself, shows the "couple" having intimate and private moments in their lives. Connell uses her art to define the multiple sides of the self in the overall human experience. The portraits are also a case of identity. Connell worked with the same model over a series of years to produce the work.[3]

She is currently a professor at Columbia College Chicago.[7]

Collections

Exhibitions

Publications

Personal life

Connell is married to sculptor Betsy Odom.[16]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kelli Connell . 2007 . Bio & Resume . Kelli Connell . January 22, 2012 . January 29, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120129074247/http://kelliconnell.com/home.html . dead .
  2. Web site: Leo Costello . Kelli Connell: Double Life . Art Lies . https://archive.today/20130226005716/http://www.artlies.org/article.php?id=129&issue=42&s=0 . dead . February 26, 2013 . January 22, 2012.
  3. Web site: Martha Schwendener . 2007 . Art in Review; Kelli Connell . Arts . . January 22, 2012.
  4. Web site: Christopher Harrity . 2012 . Artist Spotlight: Kelli Connell . Photography . . January 22, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120124031920/http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Photography/Artist_Spotlight_Kelli_Connell/ . January 24, 2012.
  5. Web site: Kelli Connell Museum of Contemporary Photography . www.mocp.org.
  6. Web site: Kelli Connell and the Intimate Other . In the In-Between . 8 March 2013.
  7. Web site: Kelli Connell – Faculty – Academics – Columbia College Chicago. www.colum.edu. March 26, 2020.
  8. Web site: Giggle, 2002 . columbusmuseum.org. January 27, 2016 .
  9. Web site: Giggle - DMA Collection Online . www.dma.org . en.
  10. Web site: Convertible Kiss LACMA Collections . collections.lacma.org.
  11. Web site: Carnival . Metropolitan Museum of Art . January 9, 2020.
  12. Web site: Museum of Contemporary Photography . www.mocp.org.
  13. Web site: Kelli Connell Head to Head . mfah.org.
  14. Web site: Kelli Connell . LENSCRATCH . 18 February 2012.
  15. Web site: September 8, 2020. Kelli Connell: Photographs. kcad.ferris.edu.
  16. Web site: Maloney . Meghan . Kelli Connell and the Intimate Other . In the In-Between . January 9, 2020 . March 8, 2013.