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Artist: Daniel Kelly ( United States ) -
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Main Category: Printmaking
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Genres: Contemporary Asian Art
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Biography: Daniel Kelly was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho and grew up in Great Falls, Montana. He then attended university in Oregon. Before leaving for Japan over twenty five years ago, he spent $1.95 on the only art book he could afford. At the back of this small book by the woodblock print artist Tokuriki was an invitation, "if the reader of this book has a chance to visit Kyoto, feel free to contact the author."
Daniel Kelly went to Kyoto and learned traditional Japanese woodblock printing from Tokuriki. Daniel's work is now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, The British Museum, The Smithsonian and about twenty other major museum collections.
Kelly is an exciting artist with and ever-changing style. All of his prints from the last several years have some element of mixed media, including woodblock, lithography, cement block printing, chine colle and hand coloring.
Kelly says of his process, �I really do not like it if I have a concept -- it does not exist yet -- and people say you are going to run into this and that problem. I want to slap those people out of my way. If there is a problem, I dig deeper. Painting and creative printmaking is like war. I get in there and battle and fight. It is either me or the image. One of us will win.�
Kelly�s newest work depicts his friend, Madoka, a beautiful tattoo artist. He has also done several versions of a self portrait, on of which is entitled, �The Yellow Hat�.
Kelly has lived and worked in Kyoto, Japan since 1977.
Museums: Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum, MOMA, and The Smithsonian.
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Exhibition History: 2007
* Hillside Terrace Gallery, Tokyo
* Library of Congress, Washington [ Red Hook / Wink ]
2006
* Hillside Terrace Gallery, Tokyo
2005
* Hillside Terrace Gallery, Tokyo
* Lemmons Contemporary, New York
* Cleveland Museum of Art
* Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections
2004
* Hillside Terrace Gallery, Tokyo
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art
* 49th College Women's Association of Japan Print Show, Tokyo
2003
* Hillside Terrace Gallery, Tokyo Daikanyama
2002
* Morikami Museum, Delray Beach, Florida
* College Women's Association of Japan, Tokyo
* Hillside Terrace Gallery, Tokyo
2001
* Hillside Terrace Gallery, Tokyo
2000
* Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay, California
* Azuma Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1999
* Isetan Bijitsu Gallery, Tokyo
* Sogetsu Kaikan Museum / Tolman Collection, Tokyo
1998
* Susan Teller Gallery, NY, NY
* Oberlin College Museum of Art. ( Five American Artists From Japan)
1980 -
1998
* Numerous One man and Group exhibitions in Japan and USA
1994
* Museum of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1986
* Brooklyn Museum, "Biannual of American Prints", Brooklyn, NY
1985
* Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Collections: Museums and Collections
* Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A. CA
* Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
* Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
* British Museum, London, England
* Museum of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
* New York Public Library, NY, NY
* National College Board, NY, NY
* Sackler Collection, Freer Museum, Washington DC
* Epstein Family Collection, Washington DC
* National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
* Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
* Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
* Oberlin College Museum of Art, Oberlin, Ohio
* Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
* Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
* TRW, Los Angeles CA
* Capital Group, Tokyo, Japan, Los Angles, CA
* HarCor Energy, Inc. Los Angles, CA
* Prudential Insurance, New Jersey, USA
* Proctor and Gamble, Kobe, Japan
* Goldman Sachs, Tokyo, Japan
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