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Gerard & Kelly

Brennan Gerard (b. Piqua, OH, 1978) and Ryan Kelly (b. Drums, PA, 1979) were both Van Lier Fellows of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and studied with Mary Kelly in the Interdisciplinary Studio MFA at UCLA. Based in Paris since 2018, Gerard & Kelly have collaborated for two decades on performance, video, and installation, among other formats. Having collectively studied ballet, visual art, literature, and gender studies, Gerard & Kelly use conceptual strategies within art and dance to examine broader themes of memory and history, sexuality and subjectivity. Their work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023), Carré d'Art – Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes (2023), and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2022).