Kelly Kaczynski is a Chicago-based artist, curator, and educator. Kaczynski has long been interested in the spatial sublimes and intimacies that our natural and built worlds present. Selected exhibitions include Julius Caesar, IL; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, IL; Peregrine Program, IL; Songs for Presidents, NY; Ortega y Gasset Projects, NY; Soap Factory, MN; Comfort Station, IL; Gahlberg Gallery, IL; threewalls, IL; Hyde Park Art Center, IL; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, NY; Triple Candie, NY; Islip Art Museum, NY; Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NY; DeCordova Museum, MA; Boston Center for the Arts, MA. Public artworks include projects with the Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA; the Interfaith Center, NY; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston and the Boston National Historic Parks, MA; Boston Public Library, MA. Curatorial projects include the collaborative projects of Working Group for Unmaking: Living Within the Play, Poor Farm Experiment, WI, 2019-ongoing and Living in the Play: nido, Italy; Manatee at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 2018; and the 2014 exhibition, Roving Room at Habersham Mills, GA. Independent curation includes Virtually Physically Speaking at Columbia College, Chicago, IL, and the 2011 exhibition Mouthing (a sentient limb) at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL. Recipient of Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award ’15; Artadia, Chicago ’08; Visible Republic, Boston, ’00. Kaczynski received an MFA from Bard College, NY, and BA from The Evergreen State College, WA.