About

Kelly Andres (she/her) is a visual artist, public art curator, and designer whose work focuses on interactive projects for experiential and sensorial encounters. She is interested in creative and/or ecologically themed concepts for public space, rural places, locative tours, research-creation, design-experiments, and enhancing or augmenting art-based experiences.

Her undergraduate degrees are in Studio Arts and Commerce (Marketing). She has a Masters in networked performance art and a studio based PhD in art and environmental humanities from Concordia University, Montréal.

Current design projects include a mobile app for mapping nature walks and acoustic ecology, a mobile app for customizing interactive art tours, a web/mobile application that explores research through citizen science and beekeeping/hive monitoring, and a rural delivery-routing app for small businesses focused on seasonal and locally sourced products.

Her artwork intertwines ecological art practices, plant studies, performative placemaking, co-creative community development, and experiential approaches for multi-species interactions. Recent exhibitions include The Works Festival, Edmonton, Particle + Wave, Calgary, Les yeux dans l’eau, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop University in Sherbrooke, Sandstone City, The Lougheed House, Calgary, The Garden of Speculations, articule, Montréal, le Centre des arts actuels Skol, Montréal, La Maison des arts de Laval, Laval. Andres’s past work has been generously supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Andres has worked as a municipal public art curator for seven years and lives in rural Alberta in a cabin on the shores of an alkaline lake.

contact: kelly dot andres at gmail dot com

Le travail d’Andres s'intéresse au vivant et a ses différentes incarnations, dont les associations - å travers installations, artefacts, généalogies - génère un espace d’expériences où le temps du sujet se fond avec celui des objets. Selon sa formule “concepts hacked into process + materials”, Andres accentue l'esthétisme de l’interconnexion entre les organismes vivants, en exploitant les pôles d’attraction qui existent entre ces derniers, des formes d'expériences aléatoires et des personnages semi-fictifs. La fusion temporelle de toutes ces modalités en serait l’objectif. Ses expositions les plus récentes incluent : Articule, le Centre des arts actuels SKOL (Mtl), La Maison des arts (Laval), Actuel Contemporary (Winnipeg), PIKSEL (Norvège), Cirque du Soleil (Mtl), Action Art Actuel (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu).