Full Name
Kelly Kivland
Speaker Bio
Kelly Kivland is chief curator and director of exhibitions at Wexner Center for the Arts, the Ohio State University. Previously, she was curator at Dia Art Foundation (2011-21). At Dia, she realized recent exhibitions and projects with artists including Joan Jonas (2021); Maren Hassinger (2021); Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (2020-22); Carl Craig’s Party/After-Party (2020-21); Joëlle Tuerlinckx (2019), and Nancy Holt (2018-19). In her role at Dia, she oversaw the stewardship of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973-76); and curated the Artists on Artists lecture series as well as the Artist Web Projects series. She holds a M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
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