Kelli Connell

Kelli Connell is a 2022-2023 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work investigates sexuality, gender, identity and photographer / sitter relationships. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications of her work include PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture), and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, and The Center for Creative Photography. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, and Light Work. Kelli Connell lives in Chicago where she teaches at Columbia College Chicago.