Kelly Falzone Inouye

CV/Résumé

 Solo Exhibitions

2022 MTV Generation, Marrow Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019 Against the Ropes, Marrow Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017 Fantasy Island, state space, San Francisco, CA

2016 Good Times, Interface Gallery, Oakland CA

2013 The Company You Keep, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA

2006 Very Special Episodes, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY

 

Awards, Grants, Residencies

2021 San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Artists Grant

2019 San Francisco Arts Commission, Individual Artist Commission

2015 San Francisco Arts Commission, Art on Market Street Poster Series

2015 Finalist- Creative Capital Award, Visual Arts

2008 San Francisco Art Institute, Graduate Leadership Award

2006-08 San Francisco Art Institute, SFAI Grant Scholarship

2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, SwingSpace Grant, New York, NY

2003 The Drawing Center, Viewing Program, New York, NY

2002 Pierogi Flatfiles, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn New York

1999 School of Visual Arts, Summer Studio Residency, New York, NY

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Reclamation, Pamela Walsh Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

Spring Invitational, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA

2022 House Show, 1655 48th Ave, San Francisco, CA. Organized by Matt Katsaros & David Wilson

Spring Break Art Fair LA: Hearsay/Heresy, Culver City, CA (with Marrow Gallery)

2020 The deYoung Open, deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA

Hoarders House, Field Projects, New York, NY. Curated by Christin Graham & Sam Trioli

2019 Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX (with Marrow Gallery)

2018 Steady Hands, Marrow Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Marissa Patten

Object Action: The 'F word' in a Post-Truth Era, state space, SF, CA

 2013 Risk, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA. Juried by Apsara DiQuinzio and Kimberly Johansson

Tales They Told Us, Loudoun House, Lexington Kentucky, Curated by Becky Alley.

 2012 Contemporary Watercolor, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Veronica Roberts

In-ter-face, Interface Gallery (inaugural exhibition), Oakland, CA. Curated by Suzanne L’Heureux

 2011 Proof, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. Juror: Denise Markonish

Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Mass. Curated by Regine Basha.

 

Public Art Projects

2015 San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Street Poster Series, San Francisco, CA

2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, SwingSpace Program, 50 Nassau Street, New York, NY

 

Press

48Hills, “Neon Pop, Watercolor Superstars: Kelly Inouye’s ‘MTV Generation’ Paints a Cultural Moment”, by Emily Wilson, May 27 2022

KQED Arts, “Kelly Inouye’s Giant Watercolors Recall the Power of 80s MTV”, By Rae Alexandra, April 27 2022

KQED Arts, “Finding Empowerment in Female Professional Wrestlers”, by Sarah Hotchkiss, Aug 28 2019

Thalia Magazine, Issue No. 6 The Fragment Issue, “An Interview with Kelly Inouye”, by Julia and Amelia Haney, Sept 2019

Bay Area Reporter "Gallery-going greets springtime", by Sura Wood, March 30, 2017

Artsy.net, "The Bay Area Artist-Run Galleries You Need to Know", by Monica Westin and Danica Sachs, Aug 10 2016

San Francisco Chronicle, Jesse Hamlin, "City Hall centennial takes a 'surreal' twist", November 5th, 2015 pg 12

New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Issue #115, Juror: Apsara DiQuinzio, 2015

East Bay Express, "Good Times: Kelly Inouye at Interface Gallery", by Sarah Burke, March 22, 2016

Watercolor Magazine, “Contemporary Watercolor: Re-Writing A Bad Rap.”  by Naomi Ekperigin, Fall 2012: 22 – 29.

The Hartford Courant, “Sol Lewitt Honored in Two Museums”, by Roger Catlin, March 17th, 2011


Education

2008 MFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1998 BA, Literature, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Related Professional Experience

Founder and Director, Irving Street Projects, 2015- 2020

Contributing Writer, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, San Francisco, CA 2012-2015

Teaching Artist, Root Division Youth Education Program, San Francisco, CA  Fall 2011

Board of Trustees, Graduate Student Representative, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2007-2008

Senior Product Designer, Vida Group International, New York, NY 2003-2005

Product Designer, ESO Inc, New York, NY 1999-2003

Visiting Artist, Guest Critic, Guest Lectures

California College of the Arts

Johns Hopkins University

San Francisco State University

Sonoma State University

San Francisco Art Institute