KELIY ANDERSON-STALEY

Keliy Anderson-Staley works with photography, text and installation to explore narrative structures and their relationship to images and the history of photographic technologies. Engaging with personal archives, traditional photographic processes and the book arts, her work seeks to position private histories and individual stories within broader historical and cultural contexts.

Anderson-Staley is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and a 2013 George and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellow. Additional support for her work has come from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Puffin Foundation, Houston Center for Photography Carol Crow Fellowship, New Orleans Photo Alliance, Houston Arts Alliance, and Houston Endowment Jones Artist Award.

Public collections holding her photographs include the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Comer Collection at UT Dallas, Center for Creative Photography, Grace Museum, Haverford College, Honickman Foundation, Houston Airport System, Library of Congress, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Portland Museum of Art, and RISD Museum. Her artist’s books are held at the MFAH Hirsch Library, Visual Studies Workshop and several private collections.

Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Akron Art Museum, Arkansas Art Museum, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Bronx Museum of the Arts, California Museum of Photography, Griffin Museum of Photography, Masur Museum, Morris Museum of Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Riverside Art Museum, Shelburne Museum, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Southeast Museum of Photography, and Zillman Art Museum.

Her work has also been shown at numerous galleries, including Catherine Edelman Gallery, Duncan Miller Gallery, Flomenhaft Gallery, In Focus Gallery (Cologne), and Jenkins Johnson Gallery; nonprofit art spaces including ArtSpace New Haven, Fotofest, Filter Photo Chicago, Lawndale Art Center, and Sheldon Galleries St Louis; and more than 40 university art galleries around the country.

Anderson-Staley completed major public commissions for the Cleveland Rapid Transit Authority and Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport. She has been an artist-in-residence at Light Work and Visual Studies Workshop and a participant in the Bronx Museum AIM Program. Her work has been written about and reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Photo District News, Photograph, Art New England, ARTnews, B&W Magazine, Oxford American, Camerawork, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

On a Wet Bough, a monograph of her tintype portraits, was published by Waltz Books. In 2023, she was the recipient of an Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award from the University of Houston Division of Research and has received small project grant support from the UH Division of Research and Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts.

Please visit her website at: www.andersonstaley.com

Education

MFA - Hunter College, CUNY - 2006
BA - Hampshire College - 2001