| Born | Melbourne, Australia |
| 2010 | PhD, Monash University, Faculty of Art and Design | ||
| 1993 | Graduate Diploma, Monash University, Gippsland School of Art | ||
| 1978 | Diploma of Art and Design / Fine Art, Caulfield Institute of Technology |
| 2016 | Wendy Kelly: Abstraction within the concerns of visual art language contemporaneously? Ed: Isabel Wunsche and Wiebke Gronemeyer, Practices of Abstract Art: Between Anarchism and Appropriation. Cambridge Scolars Press 2016 Chapter 13. | ||
| 2013 | External Examiner PhD [Research] candidate RMIT University | ||
| 2012 | External Examiner MFA [Research] candidate Charles Darwin University | ||
| 2012-2013 | Wendy Kelly, Catalogue essay, Non-Objective Conversations x 4. Sydney Non-Objective Art Projects (SNO), Sydney 2012 and Visual Art Centre, Latrobe University Gallery, Bendigo 2013. | ||
| 2012 | Duyan, Efe Ed. New Questions on Contemporary Art COTEMP ART '12 Conference Istanbul DAKAM Publishing (D/PB) Istanbul. Wendy Kelly, Problems of the role of Abstraction contemporaneously. P50 | ||
| 2011 | Wendy Kelly, Abstraction and its Processes: An Historical and Practical Investigation into Abstract Visual Language, Saarbrucken, Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG. |
| 2024 | The Complexity of the Ordinary. Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra. Virtual exhibition. nancysevergallery.com.au | ||
| 2024 | Variations: One plus One. Five Walls Melbourne | ||
| 2022 | Themes and Variations, Five Walls Melbourne | ||
| 2020 | Imbre: The Rain Series, West End Art Space, Melbourne | ||
| 2019 | Ciphering Place. Five Walls Projects, Melbourne. With Magda Cebokli | ||
| 2019 | Book works and bound folio's Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne | ||
| 2018 | Abstract Junctions. Abstract Projects Gallery Paris | ||
| 2017 | Fitzroy Detritus Langford 120, Melbourne | ||
| 2016 | Geometric Progressions Langford 120 Melbourne | ||
| 2015 | Conversations, Langford 120 | ||
| 2015 | Wendy Kelly Factory 49, Sydney | ||
| 2015 | 'Wendy Kelly Works on Paper'. Langford 120, Melbourne | ||
| 2014 | 'Shades of Concealment', Langford 120, Melbourne | ||
| 2013 | 'Oblique Interpretations' Factory 49, Sydney | ||
| 2012 | "The Subverted Surface" Factory 49, Sydney | ||
| 2011 | "Undercurrent" fortyfivedownstairs Melbourne | ||
| 2010 | "Along these lines" Monash University Faculty Gallery | ||
| 2010 | Factory 49, Sydney | ||
| 2008 | "Crossing Borders" Depot II Gallery, Sydney | ||
| 2007 | dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne | ||
| 2005 | dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne | ||
| 2003 | "Removed" dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne | ||
| 2001 | "Nulla Dies Sine Linea" dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne | ||
| King Street Gallery, Sydney | |||
| "Textrix" The Church Gallery, Perth | |||
| Gallery 482, Brisbane | |||
| 1999 | dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne | ||
| 1998 | dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne | ||
| 1997 | dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne | ||
| Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide | |||
| 1995 | “Coober Pedy Experience”, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier Regional Gallery | ||
| “Wendy Kelly Now”, Manningham Artspace | |||
| 1993 | “Journey”, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery | ||
| 1992 | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide | ||
| 1990 | Works on Paper, Judith Pugh Gallery, Melbourne | ||
| 1985 | Pinacotheca, Melbourne | ||
| Chisholm College, Latrobe University | |||
| 1981 | Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2014 | NAVA Victorian Bursary to attend Future/Forward Summit, Sydney | ||
| 2010/2013 | Adjunct Research Associate, Monash University, Faculty of Art design and Architecture, Department of Fine Art | ||
| 2007 | Monash University Postgraduate Travel grant Award; Monash University HDR Prato Programme | ||
| 2001 | The Church Gallery, Perth, residency and exhibition | ||
| 2000 | N.S.W. Ministry for the Arts, The Gunnery, Woolloomooloo | ||
| 1989 | Australia Council, V.A.C.B. Artists Development Project Grant | ||
| 1981 | Pioneer Art Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery |
| State Library of Victoris | |||
| National Gallery of Victoria | |||
| Art Bank | |||
| Monash University Library, Artists Book Collection, Caulfield Campus | |||
| La Trobe University Collection | |||
| University of Southern Queensland | |||
| Private collections |
| 2012-2013 | Non-Objective Conversations x 4. Sydney Non-Objective Art Space and La Trobe University Visual Art Centre, Bendigo. Curated by Wendy Kelly | ||
| 2007-2008 | "The Space Between", VCA Gallery and Bendigo Regional Gallery. Curated by Tara Gilbee | ||
| 2002 | “Indecorous Abstraction”, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide, and Newcontempories Gallery Sydney, Curated by Dr Margo Osbourne | ||
| 199-2001 | “Celebrating the Exquisite corpse”, Bendigo Art Gallery and Monash Art Gallery. Curated by Anonda Bell | ||
| 1999-2002 | “We are Australians”, 10 venues around Australia | ||
| 1987 | “Domestic Contradictions”, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art Sydney, A.C.T. Arts Council Gallery, Shepparton Regional Art Gallery and the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Curated by Julie Ewington |
| 2008 | Private Commission, Sydney | ||
| 1999 | Centrum Architects, Melbourne | ||
| 1982 | Chisholm College, Latrobe University |
| 2022 | Melbourne Art Book Fair. NGV Melbourne | ||
| 2020 | Melbourne Art Book Fair, Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria | ||
| 2020 | Tacit Gallery, Melbourne | ||
| 2019 | The Paul Guest Collection, Bendigo Regional Gallery | ||
| 2018 | Abstracteighteen, Langford 120 Curated by Stephen Wickham and Wilma Tabacco | ||
| 2018 | Edge, Langford 120 and the Global Centre for Drawing, Curated by Irene Barberis | ||
| 2018 | The Exquisite Palette Tacit Gallery Melbourne | ||
| 2017 | Shades of Grey Tacit Gallery Melbourne | ||
| 2016 | Nearly Monochrome, Five Walls Art Projects, Curated by Stephen Wickham | ||
| 2016 | Unmake/Make/Denouer/ Nouer Factory 49 Pop-up Paris | ||
| 2016 | Shades of Grey Tacit Gallery Melbourne, Curator Emma Langridge | ||
| 2015 | Grid: Matrix Module Myth. Langford 120, Melbourne. Curated by Dr Wilma Tabacco | ||
| 2015 | 'Black and White' Spot 81 Gallery Sydney | ||
| 2014 | 'Print Matters', Spot 81 Gallery, Sydney | ||
| 2014 | 'Art and Books: Against the Odds.' Symposium Exhibition, Otago University Duneden School of Art Gallery, NZ | ||
| 2014 | 'Grid Line Pattern: a serial approach.' Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney | ||
| 2013 | Abstraction 13 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne. | ||
| 2013 | In Line. Langford 120, Curated by Dr Wilma Tabacco | ||
| 2013 | Line upon Line. ParisCONCRET Paris, with Elisia Marchal (Fr) and William James Thurman (USA) Curated by Richard van de Aa | ||
| 2012 | Factory 49 Miami. Stand K 22, Scope, Miami 2012. Curated by Pam Aitkin | ||
| 2011 | Factory 49 exhibition, Galerie bij de Boeken, Netherlands | ||
| 2011 | "Non-Objective Group Show", Art Month Sydney, Factory 49 | ||
| 2010 | "Lineate" with Magda Cebokli, Factory 49 Project Space, Sydney | ||
| 2010 | "Non-Objective Group Show", Art Month Sydney, Factory 49 | ||
| 2009 | “Folk 1”, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney. Curated by Dr. Billy Gruner | ||
| 2009 | Monash University Faculty Gallery | ||
| 2009 | Factory 49, Sydney | ||
| 2004 | “White”, The Church Gallery, Perth. Curated by Allison Archer | ||
| 2004 | The Melbourne Art Fair, dianne tanzer gallery | ||
| 2003 | “Distant Noises”, Collaborative Group Exhibition RMIT | ||
| 2003 | “The Future in every Direction”, Joan Clemenger Endowment, Ian Potter Centre, NGV | ||
| 2003 | “Dialogue”, 2pi r Artists Group Exhibition, Monash University Gallery, Prato, Italy | ||
| 2002 | “Persistence of Memory”, 2pi r Group Exhibition, Span Gallery | ||
| 2002 | “Swap”, Perth Gallery | ||
| 2001 | King Street Gallery on Burton | ||
| 2000 | “Last show of the year”, King Street Gallery on Burton, Sydney | ||
| 2000 | The Melbourne Art Fair, dianne tanzer gallery | ||
| 2000 | “Reciprocal Moves”, Warrnambool Art Gallery, curated by Dr Noela Stratford | ||
| 2000 | “On the brink: Abstraction in the 90’s” , Heide Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Kelly Gellatly | ||
| 1999 | 2 pi r Artists Group Exhibition, Span Gallery | ||
| 1998 | “Making Waves”, dianne tanzer gallery | ||
| 1998 | Sixth Australian Art Fair, dianne tanzer gallery | ||
| 1997 | “Selected Artists”, dianne tanzer gallery | ||
| 1995 | “Some Women I Know”, La Trobe University | ||
| 1992 | “Homage to Spain”, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery | ||
| 1992 | “Small works, wide visions”, Downlands, Toowoomba |
| 2013 | Conference Paper, The Topologies of Materiality and Practice within Abstraction. Panel: Topologies of Practice, Chair, Charles Robb AAANZ Annual Confrence Melbourne. | ||
| 2013 | Conference paper What is the role of Abstraction Contemporaneously, 100 years of Abstract Art: Theory and Practice. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany | ||
| 2012 | Panel Chair"Abstract Relationships together<>apart AAANZ Annual Conference, Sydney | ||
| 2012 | Conference paper"The problem of the role of Abstract Art Contemporaneously". Contemp Art 12, Mimar Sionan Fine Art University, Istanbul, Turkey. International conference | ||
| 2011 | "Undercurrent" fortyfivedownstairs gallery, two Artists lectures. | ||
| 2008 | Bendigo Art Gallery, "The Space Between" exhibition | ||
| 2007 | Monash PhD Seminar | ||
| 2005 | RMIT | ||
| 2003 | Moorabbin TAFE | ||
| 2001 | Monash University Lunch time lecture series | ||
| 2001 | Edith Cowen University, Perth | ||
| 2001 | Perth Institute of TAFE |
| 2016 | Shortlisted Albany Art Prize | ||
| 2014 | Shortlisted The 38th Alice Prize, Alice Springs | ||
| 2013 | Factory 49 Annual group exhibition | ||
| 2011 | Factory 49 Annual group exhibition | ||
| 2010 | Scope Gallery, Warnambool | ||
| 2010 | Factory 49 group, Sydney | ||
| 2009 | Factory 49 group, Sydney | ||
| 2009 | "30x30x30", Monash University Faculty Gallery | ||
| 2008 | The Tallis Foundation Works on Paper prize, Mornington Regional Gallery | ||
| 2008 | 2 pi r Artists Group, Red Gallery | ||
| 2007 | The Savage prize, Melbourne | ||
| 2006 | 2 pi r Artists Group, Span Galleries | ||
| 2005 | Geelong Contemporary Art Prize | ||
| 2002 | Out Back Art Prize Works on Paper Broken Hill NSW | ||
| 2002 | Geelong Contemporary Art Prize | ||
| 2001 | Hazelhurst Art Award Works on Paper | ||
| 1997 | Hutchins Art Prize, Hobart | ||
| 1997 | First Darebin - La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize | ||
| 1995 | Save Albert Park 9x5 Invitation Exhibition | ||
| 1995 | Nillumbik Invitation Art Award | ||
| 1995 | Mornington Peninsula Spring Festival of Drawing |
| The Paul Guest Collection, Bendigo Regional Gallery P 28 and160 | |||
| 2014 | Stupples, Peter. Art and Book: Against the odds. Exhibition Catalogue, University of Ontago, Dunedin School of Art Gallery NZ | ||
| 2014 | Richard van de Aa, ParisCONCRET 2009 - 2014 P105 | ||
| 2011 | Dr Anne Bennett, "Interlacing Materality and Meaning through Abstraction and its Processes" | ||
| 2011 | "Undercurrent" fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne | ||
| 2001 | Dr Margo Osborne, “Indecorous Abstraction 1. Contemporary Women Painters” Light Square Gallery, Adelaide, and “Indecorous Abstraction 2”, Newcontemoraries, Sydney 2001 | ||
| 2001 | Kelly Gellatly, “Nulla Dies Sine Linea”, dianne tanzer gallery, 2001 | ||
| 2001 | Paul Hinchliffe, “Textrix”, The Church Gallery, June 2001 | ||
| 2000 | Dr. Noela Stratford, “Reciprocal Moves”, Warrnambool Art Gallery, 2000 | ||
| 1999 | 2 Pi r Artists Group Exhibition, Catalogue, 1999 | ||
| 1997 | Anna Clabburn, “Waxing Linear”, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, 1997 | ||
| 1995 | Roger Palmer, “Wendy Kelly Landscapes: Matters of Place, Time and Identity”, 1995, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt. Gambier | ||
| 1992 | I. McCulkin, “Small Works Wide Visions”, Catalogue, Downlands Exhibition, 1992 | ||
| 1987 | Julie Ewington, “Domestic Contradictions”, 1987, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Page 5, Illustration, Page 11 | ||
| 1987 | Women 150, “150 Victorian Women Artists”, Illustration |
| 2006 | Alan Mc Culloch, Susan McCulloch and Emily Mc Culloch-Childs, The New McCulloch’s Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Aus Art Editions, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, Page 569 | ||
| 2005 | Jeff Makin, “Critic’s Choice”, Herald Sun, April 4, 2005, Page 89 | ||
| 2005 | Megan Backhouse "Reading between the threads”, The Age, April 9.2005, A2, Page 9 | ||
| 2002 | Michael Newall, “Indecorous Abstraction”, Artlink, Vol. 22 No. 4, 2002, Page 85 | ||
| Josephine Allison, “Getting the Thread”, The Western Australian, Today, May 23 2001 Lin DiCiero, | |||
| 2001 | “In residence at The Church Gallery”, Artists Chronicle, Art in Western Australia, Issue 78, April/May 2001 | ||
| 2001 | Philip Brown, “Let it Rip”, Brisbane News, Brisbane, April 24 2001 | ||
| 2000 | Susan McCulloch, “Undiscovered Artists”, The Australian Art Collector, April 2000, Page 71 | ||
| 2000 | Alison Barclay, “2020 Visionaries”, Herald Sun, Melbourne, January 8 2000, Page 97 | ||
| 1999 | Jeff Makin, “Choice views”, Herald Sun, Melbourne, June 7 1999, Page 106 | ||
| 1998 | Art in Australia, Vol 36, No 2 1998, Illustration “Gallery”, Page 252 | ||
| 1998 | Robert Rooney, “Late starters show colors by design”, The Australian, June 5 1998 Page 14 | ||
| 1998 | Jeff Makin, “Choice Views”, Herald Sun, Melbourne, May 18 1998, Page 9 | ||
| 1997 | Adam Dutklewicz, “Image through Icon”, The Advertiser, Adelaide, November 6 1997 | ||
| 1994 | Alan and Susan McCulloch, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 1994, Allen and Unwin, Australia, Page 385 | ||
| 1993 | Susan McCulloch, “Gallery takes care of a visual treat”, Herald Sun, Friday, June 18 1993, Illustration | ||
| 1992 | John Neylon, “Changed Bait”, The Adelaide Review, No.104, July 1992, Page 34 | ||
| 1992 | Graham Ryles, “A Buyers Guide to Australian Art”, 1992, Mandarin, Australia, Page 45 | ||
| 1991 | Max Germain, A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia, 1991, Craftsman House, Australia, Page 241, Illustration | ||
| 1990 | Max Germain, Artists and Galleries of Australia, 1990, Craftsman House, Australia, Page 366 | ||
| 1989 | Artworkz One Exhibition Catalogue 1989, Illustration | ||
| 1989 | Women 150, “150 Victorian Women Artists”, Illustration | ||
| 1985 | Ronald Millar, “Happiness is a Room Full of Monets”, Herald, August 15 1985, Page 24 | ||
| 1985 | Ronald Millar, “Of Prams and Parking Meters”, Herald, June 6 1985, Page 23 |