Contributor

Shan Kelley was raised in the prairie backdrop of Alberta, Canada’s beef and petroleum heartland. His work sits amidst a slippage of intersections between art and activism. In this fascination with language, Kelley uses text as material, to scrutinize the ways relationships to self, identity, body, and power are deconstructed, created, and curated. After an HIV+ diagnosis in 2009 he became increasingly inspired to find his voice within the context of disease and adversity, and to push forward using art as action again apathy or surrender.