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Art Critic, Author, and Curator
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Jeff Kelley is an art critic, author, and curator. A practicing art critic since 1977, his reviews and essays about artists including Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei have appeared in publications including Artforum, Art in America, and the Los Angeles Times.
In 1993 the University of California Press published Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, a collection of significant writings by American conceptual artist Allan Kaprowedited by Kelley. He is also the author of Childsplay: the Art of Allan Kaprow, published in 2004 by UC Press.
Kelley lives in Oakland, California. He was married to Chinese-born American painter Hung Liu until her death on August 7, 2021.
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