EDUCATION
2016 MFA, Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2012 BA, Art, Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2017 Solo Exhibition, Demo Innjanai, Taq’s Knot, Tokyo, Japan
2016 New Contemporaries: Selected works from the class of 2016, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
2016 Smaller Than, Open Aperture Gallery, Newport, RI
2016 Certain Things, Clamp Art Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Graduate Thesis Show, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
2016 New Color Messages, 555 Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 hello, world!, ArtSpace New Haven, New Haven, CT
2015 Image Landscapes: New Readings in Art, Design, and Architecture, Gelhman Gallery, Providence, RI
2015 In Our Company, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2015 Language vs. Language, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2015 Two-Person Exhibition, Two Years, Two Weeks, Two Artists: One Queer Time, Launch Pad
Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
2015 Colors of Spring, Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI
2015 Expanded Field - Traversing the Archeology of Gender, Gelhman Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, RI
2015 The First Annual Student Artists' Book Juried Contest & Exhibition, the Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, RI
2015 Not So Simple, Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2014 Funny, Isn’t it?, Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2014 Photography Department Triennial, Woods-Gaerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2014 MFA First Year Photography, Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2013 Constellations, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2012 Welling up, Yamada Bessou, Beppu City, Japan
2012 Hammerhead Studio residency open studios exhibition, Hammerhead Studio, Yokohama, Japan
2012 BankArt Artist in Residency Program open studio exhibition, BankArt, Yokohama, Japan
2011 Ecosex Symposium II Exhibition, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco
2011 Irwin Scholarship Award Exhibition, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
RESIDENCIES
2013 Artist-In-Residence, Hammerhead Studio, Yokohama, Japan
2012 Artist-In-Residence, Beppu Project, Beppu city, Japan
2012 Artist-In-Residence, Bankart 1929, Yokohama, Japan
PRESS
2016 Zora J Murff, “Q&A: Sakura Kelley,” Strange Fire, October 20, http://www.strangefirecollective.com/qa-sakura-kelley
2016 Martins, Fatima. "Challenging Gender Expression At Artspace." Artscope 5 Jan. 2016: 16-19. Print.
2015 Naik, Rohan. "Wigging out in "hello, World!"" Yale Daily News, 11 Dec. 2015. Web.
2015 Ellen Spring. "New Views from RISD." Review. What Will You Remember?. 21 April. Web.
2015 Jennifer Liese. "Global Turn/Multimodal Turn: Language Lessons from Art and Design." College Art Association. Hilton New York,
New York. 11 February. Lecture.
2012 Ikeda, Osamu, comp. BankART Life. Yokohama, Japan: BankART 1929. Print.
TALKS / GUEST CRITIQUES / WORKSHOPS
2016 Lecture, “When ‘Diversity’ Is Not A Useful Term,” for Faculty Development Day, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI,
November 21
2016 Lecture, for Identity in Flux, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Oct 20
2016 Artist Talk, "Undertones: Bits and Pieces On Bodies, Beauty and Violence”, Society for Photographic Education Conference, Las
Vegas, NV, March 11
2015 Undergraduate Critique, University of Connecticut, Mansfield, CT, May 15
2013 Artist Talk, Koganecho Bazaar Art Festival, Yokohama, Japan, March 15
2012 Artist Talk, BankArt 1929, Yokohama, Japan, July 8
2010 Workshop, Sierra Club New York Division Office, New York, NY, December 11
2010 Workshop, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, November 19
2010 Workshop, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, November 11