Based in Oakland, CA, Kelly Ording has exhibited her work both in the U.S. and internationally since graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000, with recent solo exhibitions including An Unseen World, Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID (2019), Shadows and Light, Local Language, Oakland, CA (2018), and Rotations Around the Sun, Sarah Shepard Gallery, Larkspur, CA (2018). Her public works and murals can be seen in San Francisco Arts Commission Public and Civic Art Collection, the Alameda County Collection, JP Morgan Chase Collection, and the Ellie Mae Collection. She recently returned from traveling in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia with the Bangkit/Arise Project in association with Clarion Alley Mural Project and Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta. Kelly currently devotes all her time to her artwork and her two children with fellow artist, Jet Martinez.

Selected Press

Featured Artist: Kelly Ording, Oakland Artists Gallery

Gallery Representation

Pt. 2 Gallery

Gilman Contemporary

CV