Scott Kelley
born 1963, Binghamton, New York
Education
The Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York
C.O.R.E. Fellowship, The Glassel School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Solo Exhibitions
1981 Watercolors by Scott Kelley
American Realist Gallery, New York, NY
1986 A Cure for Mental Illness
Phillip Dash Gallery, New York, NY
1991 28 Days of Waste
Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
1992 For the Theologians of VIolence
Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Chrysanthemum Half-Life
Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Bougainvillea and Oleanders
M13 Gallery, New York, NY
1995 There is Nothing Left Now but Shadows
M13 Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Montauk Day Book - Adrift Upon the Thin Raft
M13 Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Rocks and Stones
Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1999 Rocks, Fish and Birds
Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2000 Excerpts from the Montauk Day Book
Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2002 Wish you were here...
Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2003 Having a wonderful time, wish you were here...
Gleason Fine Art, Boothbay Harbor, ME
2004 Ardeidae, Anatidae, Sulidae - New Paintings of Birds
Gleason Fine Art, Boothbay Harbor, ME
2005 Ardea herodias - The Great Blue Heron
Gleason Fine Art, Boothbay Harbor, ME
Ardea herodias - The Great Blue Heron
Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY
2006 Oology
Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY
2007 Pink
Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY
2008 Sea Ducks
Gleason Fine Art, Boothbay Harbor, ME
Sea Ducks
Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY
2010 Monhegan Day Book
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2011 No Maps for These Territories
Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY
2012 Whale
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2013 The Child’s Book About Whales
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2015 The Legends of Gluskap
Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, New York, NY
Huzzah for Old Hallet / Aboard the The Whaleship Abbott
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
Of Sea and Sky
W.M. Brady & Co., New York, NY
2016 Birch
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2017 Loxahatchee
John H. Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2018 The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2019 Notes from the Salt Ponds, Inagua, Bahamas
Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2020 Hold Fast
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2021 Gray Salt - Lost in Ah Shi Sle Pah
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Siege
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
2023 Florida Man
Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Badlands
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Portland Museum of Art
Masterworks on Paper - Highlights From The Portland Museum of Art
The Portland Museum of Art
Of Whales In Paint - Rockwell Kent, Jamie Wyeth, Scott Kelley, Frank Stella, Leonard Baskin and others
Recent Reviews and Articles
Maine Home + Design, 40 Extraordinary Artists in Maine, April, 2008
Carl Little, The Bird Man of Peaks Island - feature article. Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors Magazine, July, 2010
Bob Keyes, And A Tree Shall Lead Them - feature article. Maine Sunday
Telegram, April 22, 2018
American Art Collector, June 2020, Natural Worlds - Scott Kelley & Penelope Gottlieb
Publications
Scott Kelley: Paintings and Drawings for The Sons of the Neon Chrysanthemum. Forward by Gary Stephan. 48 pages, full color, published by Art Random/Kyoto Shoin International. Kyoto, Japan, 1990.
The Montauk Day Book - Adrift Upon the Thin Raft. Introduction by Edward Albee. 24 pages, full color, published by M13 Gallery, New York, 1996
The Art of Monhegan Island, by Carl Little and Arnold Skolnick. Down East Press, 2004.
Monhegan Day Book - catalogue, with an essay by Carl Little. Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME, 2010
Whale - catalogue, with an interview by Polly Saltonstall. Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME, 2012
The Child’s Book About Whales - catalogue. Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME 2013
The Collection - Highlights From The Portland Museum of Art, with an essay by Ariel Hagan Elwell, 2016
BIRCH, by Scott Kelley. 36 pages, published by Ayuh Press in association with Dowling Walsh Gallery, 2017
I AM BIRCH, by Scott Kelley. 36 pages, published by Islandport Press, 2018
Fellowships
1993 The Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY. Artist in Residence.
2003 The National Science Foundation, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Artist in Residence, Palmer Station, Antarctica.
Public Collections
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
LL Bean
The Blackstone Group
The Maslow Collection
The National Gallery of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
The artist is represented by the following galleries:
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, New York, NY
W.M. Brady & Co., New York, NY
John H. Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
