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 Grant
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
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
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
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
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 Lectures
Johns Hopkins University
San Francisco State University
Sonoma State University
San Francisco Art Institute