Robert Kelly is an American painter born in Santa Fe, NM. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1978. His early influences come from the De Stijl movement, modernism, and several European painters. He has had residencies at MacDowell and The Károlyi Foundation in Venice, France and began working with Polaroid in Cambridge. In 1982, he decided to pursue a career exclusively in painting.
Kelly’s work plays on edges, angles, and cuts to create a tension and logic to line and form. He found inspiration traveling throughout the United States, Europe, North Africa, and Nepal and his work often incorporates found objects from these excursions. He has exhibited around the world including in Milan, New York, and San Francisco.
