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Kelly Falzone Inouye (b. 1975 Woodland, CA) earned a BA from UC San Diego and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Her paintings explore social issues through popular culture, focusing on personal reflection.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Marrow Gallery in San Francisco, SPRING/BREAK Art Show LA, and Interface Gallery in Oakland. It has also appeared in group exhibitions including “Reclamation” at Pamela Walsh Gallery in Palo Alto and “Contemporary Watercolor” at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City.
She has received public art commissions from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and her work has been featured in publications including The San Francisco Chronicle and New American Paintings.
Inouye also founded and ran Irving Street Projects, a San Francisco-based residency program that provided project development and exhibition opportunities to fellow Bay Area artists from 2015-2020.
She lives and works in San Francisco, California with her family and tiny dog. Her work is represented by Marrow Gallery in San Francisco.