Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document: Documentation IV, 1976/2015, is currently on view in Vital Signs, Artists and the Body, a group exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. The exhibition runs through to 22 February 2025.
Vital Signs includes over 100 works by artists who question what it means to be an individual within a larger society—and how socially sustained categories such as gender, race, and sexual identity are rooted in abstraction.
The exhibition draws together works from MoMA’s collection, bringing together artists such as Frida Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, and Senga Nengudi. Some artists explore how we project, distort, and create identities through acts of play, empathy, or control. Others focus on the body’s interior—both real and imagined—or look to the world outside, forming newly imagined combinations of the human and the non-human.
Mary Kelly is also currently included in Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2024); travelling to Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, UK (2024); Millennium Gallery, Sheffield (2024-25); and Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (2025).
