Ambre Kelly - "Tennis Anyone?"

2021, Digital Painting

Ambre Kelly is a multi-disciplinary visual artist living and working between New York City and Los Angeles. She paints, she draws, she installs, she collages, she films, she videos, she performs, and she dances (well).

Ambre studied painting and printmaking at American University (D.C.), obtaining her MFA in Italy in 2006. Kelly has shown work as herself, and the co-operative domestic art collective BOYFRIENDGIRLFRIEND, at Anna Kustera Gallery, Artists Space, Collective Show, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, ABCyz, Hypegallery (Milan, Italy), Halsey Gallery (Charleston), Spring Arts Collective Gallery (Los Angeles) & more.

She is co-founder of SPRING/BREAK Art Show, a contributor to the Underground Library, and the owner of The They Co. Kelly has curated and organized large-scale art exhibitions since 2008, including WISH MEME, in participation with the New Museum’s IDEAS CITY biennial.

In her spare time, she works on friends' films as a production designer and production artist, including APARTMENT TROUBLES (Jennifer Prediger & Jess Weixler), HIGH PHANTOM PLAYBACK (Andrew Gori), PARTY TRICK (Andrew Gori & Jesse Allen), FRONTIERSMAN'S WIFE (Jesse Allen).