Kelly McCray
Art Consultant, Art Barrage MFA, York University
About this speaker
Kelly McCray has exhibited and curated extensively over the past 30 years. One of his site-specific book tower installations, the Tower of Banned Books, was recently installed at the Toronto Reference Library and an earlier tower was installed for the Plumb Gallery’s Indexing Resistance exhibition in 2022. His steam portraits were exhibited at the Gladstone Hotel for the 2016 10 x 10 Portrait Project and in 2015, the Stephen Bulger Gallery hosted his photo-based Lens Krafter book project. His 2003 Ken Portraits series, was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) and in 2001, the Gnawts Project was exhibited in the Breath Taking show at Gallery TPW, for which he received the US - based Pollock-Krasner award.
Curatorial and Co-curatorial projects include the 2013 Rare & Raw show for the Leslie & Lohman Museum in New York as well as numerous Edward Day Gallery exhibitions. In 2016 He directed/curated the First Canadian Place Gallery and public lobby spaces from 2014 to 2019 and was co-founder of the Artists Protest Projects for the 2019 Nuit Blanche projection walls at the Gladstone Hotel and Samara art Gallery. From 2019 – 2021 McCray completed his MFA at York University
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