Kelli Connell

Kelli Connell (born 1974) is an American contemporary photographer. Connell is known for creating portraits, which may appear as self-portraits. Her work is held in the collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Dallas Museum of Art.

Early life and education Kelli Connell was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Connell took her first photography class as a junior in high school, and was influenced early on by the work of Roni Horn, Francesca Woodman, and Larry Sultan. She received her BFA in Photography and Visual Arts Studies at the University of North Texas.

Collections

Columbus Museum of Art Dallas Museum of Art Los Angeles County Museum of Art "Carnival", 2006, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Museum of Contemporary Photography Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Group Exhibitions

FEEL ME, Trapholt Museum of Modern Art and Design, Denmark, 2024 Gorgeousness, Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY, 2024 o_ Man!, Kelli Connell and Natalie Krick, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, 2024 Traces on the Landscape, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 2023 All Roads are Open: Traveling Women Photographers Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld, Germany, 2023 OFF-SPRING: New Generations, 21c Museum, Chicago, IL, 2023 Refracting Histories, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, 2022 Rewriting Art History, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, 2022 Gaze Maze II: Seeing Double, Elsa Art Space, Bielefeld, Germany, 2022 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, The Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2022 Collaborating with the Archive, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL, 2021 Selections from the Permanent Collection: Contemporary Art, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, 2021 Keeper of the Hearth, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, 2020

Solo Exhibitions

Living with Modernism: Kelli Connell's Pictures for Charis and Double Life, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, 2026 Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2025 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 2024 Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, 2023 Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2022 Center for Photography Woodstock, NY Alice Austen House, Staten Island, NY, 2021 Kelli Connell: Photographs, Kendall College of Art and Design, Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2009

Interviews

Kelli Connell - Episode 73, PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, February 29, 2024 Q+A: Kelli Connell, Strange Fire with Jess T. Dugan, January 4, 2018

Publications Double Life. Seattle: Decode 2011. With Susan Bright. . Pictures for Charis. Aperture 2024. .

Personal life Connell is married to sculptor Betsy Odom.