BIO
Angela Kelly is an artist, educator and an active member of the
international arts community. She holds an MA in Fine Art Photography
from Columbia College, Chicago, an undergraduate diploma in Creative
Photography with honors from Trent Polytechnic and an undergraduate
diploma in Education with a distinction in Art from Mary Ward College,
Nottingham England. Her career in teaching spans three decades and
two continents. Her curatorial work in the US and England includes
photography, installation, sculpture and conceptual art.
Originally from Belfast, N. Ireland, she is currently a tenured Associate
Professor teaching a range of courses across both the graduate and
undergraduate programs in Photo Arts at RIT. She has served on the
executive committee of the National Board for the Society of Photographic
Education, the Photography Panel of the Arts Council of Gt. Britain, London,
England and as vice chair of the exhibition committee at the Randolph
St. Gallery in Chicago. She is currently serving a three-year term as a
member of the International Fulbright committee for photography.
Her work has been supported by major awards from the Arts Council of
Gt. Britain and N. Ireland, the Illinois Arts Council, and the National
Endowment for the Arts, RIT and the University of New Orleans.
She is in international collections worldwide including The Center for
Creative Photography, Tucson, The Art Institute of Chicago, The MacArthur
Foundation, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, The
Historical Society, Chicago, The Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, The Arts
Council of London, UK, and the Arts Council of N. Ireland as well as several
private collections. Her images are included in the definitive book, A History
of Women Photographers by Naomi Rosenblum as well as the prestigious
exhibition catalogs, Three Perspectives on Photography, Hayward Gallery,
London, Changing Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Art, Document,
Commerce, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
