Jeff Kelley

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.

[1][2] 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 Kaprow edited by Kelley.

He was married to Chinese-born American painter Hung Liu until her death on August 7, 2021.

[5][6] From 1993 to 2005 Kelley taught Art Theory and Criticism at the University of California, Berkeley.

He founded and served as the director of the Center for Research in Contemporary Art (CRCA) at the University of Texas at Arlington.