Kelly Lycan

Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist based in Vancouver, Canada. Recent solo exhibitions Club 29, curated by Elham Puriya Mehr at Ag Galerie in Tehran, Iran (2018); and Little Glow at Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto (2015). Recent group exhibitions include Reading Art at Burnaby Art Gallery (2020); Song of the Open Road at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (2019); Mimetic Workshop: Studio Still Lifes of Fiona Ackerman and Kelly Lycan at Surrey Art Gallery (2016); Kitchen Midden at Griffin Art Projects in North Vancouver (2016); Superimposition: Sculpture and Image at the Plug In: Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg (2016); Ideas and Things at Kamloops Art Gallery (2015). Spanning 10 years, Lycan has worked alongside Jinhan Ko, Jennifer Parararo, and Khan Lee as Instant Coffee – an artist collective working on socially engaged work including architectural installation, publication, and public artwork. In 2020, Lycan was an artist-in-residence at Griffin Art Projects; later in 2021, Lycan will join the Ars Scientia a 6-month interdisciplinary research cluster hosted by the University of British Columbia working on academic art-science collaborations. Lycan holds an MFA from The University of California at Santa Barbara (1998) and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (1992). In 2016, Lycan held a residency at BAF amounting to a solo exhibition titled More Than Nothing where she presented an installation that delved into the aesthetics of museum interiors, architecture, and display models both past and present.