Gerard & Kelly, 2022. Photo by Adrien Dirand for Kinfolk.
Ryan Kelly of artist duo Gerard & Kelly will be in conversation with the Foundation’s Executive Director Anjuli Nanda Diamond and Curator George Bolster on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 from 6-8pm at The 8th Floor. They will discuss Gerard & Kelly’s recent collaborative practice, focusing on the music of Julius Eastman in Panorama (2021), on view in Narrative Obsession in the Post-Colonial Psyche through July 13 at The 8th Floor.
All events are free and open to the public, with RSVPs requested. On the day of the program, the gallery will be open from 6pm for exhibition viewing, with select works potentially obstructed due to the event setup. The discussion will begin by 6:30pm. Info on accessing our space can be found here. Email us with any questions.
American artists based in Paris, Gerard & Kelly (Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly) have collaborated for two decades on performance, film, and installation, among other formats. Having collectively studied ballet, visual art, literature, and gender studies, Gerard & Kelly use conceptual strategies within art and dance to examine broader themes of memory and history, sexuality and subjectivity. Their questions are often set against a specific architectural space, pushing the related sociocultural and political precedents of the site into an open engagement with the artists’ work.
Gerard & Kelly were both Van Lier Fellows of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and each received an MFA in the Interdisciplinary Studio at UCLA. The duo’s first museum survey exhibition, Ruins, was held at the Carré d’Art in Nîmes, France, in 2022–23. Recent solo presentations include Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023); Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2022); MOCA, Los Angeles (2020); Festival d’Automne, Paris (2017 and 2019); Pioneer Works, New York (2018); New Museum, New York (2014), and The Kitchen, New York (2014). Their work has been included in group exhibitions including the NGV Triennial, Melbourne (2024), Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014), and the Made in L.A. Biennial at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014), among others.
Works by Gerard & Kelly are included in the collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon; Carré d’Art–Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes , Nîmes; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Image description: A portrait of two white men standing in front of a beige pillar. The person on the left has his arms crossed and looks off to the side, and the person on the right looks down at the ground. Both are wearing casual unbuttoned shirts over tees.