Recent Yale M.F.A. graduate Khalif Kelly will have his first museum exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art this month. Entitled Khalif Kelly: Electronicon, the work will be displayed in Project Room 1 of the Museum from May 16 - August 22, 2009.
Kelly's work, brightly colored paintings, resonate with images of cartoon-like children in various states of play. Heavily drawing upon artists like Jacob Lawrence and early video games and animation, Kelly "creates scenes that on closer inspection reveal a mixture of personal archetypes and classic racial stereotypes."
Khalif Kelly was born in 1980 in Texas. He received a B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art, and lives and works in New Haven, CT and New York. He shows with Thierry Goldberg Projects in New York. He is a participant in the Artist Pension Trust.
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