Mary Reid Kelley combines painting, performance, and her distinctive wordplay-rich poetry in polemical, graphically stylized videos. Made in collaboration with her partner Patrick Kelley, these videos have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, the ICA Boston, and SITE SANTA FE. European solo exhibitions include Tate Liverpool, Kunsthalle Bremen, Museum M, Leuven, and Neuer Kunstverein Wien.

Their video work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, W Magazine, La Reppublica, Vogue, The New Yorker, Artforum, Flash Art, Frieze, ARTnews, and Art in America. Mary and Patrick live and work in upstate New York. Their most recent project, In the Body of the Sturgeon (2017), premiered at Tate Liverpool.