Writing

Kealey Boyd is a writer and art critic based in Denver, Colorado. Her research interests include methodologies for interpreting painting and other visual forms as an integral element of political and cultural discourses. She is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic and The Art Newspaper. Her writing is featured in The Los Angeles Times, Frieze, Art Papers, College Art Association (CAA Reviews), The Belladonna Comedy, Artillery Magazine and elsewhere. She is the art consultant to the national literary journal Copper Nickel.

Her writing in print and books include sculptor Wayne Brungard, the collective Pink Progression, Pard Morrison and the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life anthology (forthcoming). She co-edited and contributed writing to “Broken Time Machines” (Minerva Press, 2020) and is currently editing a book on the history of Denver’s Redline Contemporary Art Center. She taught Journalism at University of Colorado-Boulder (2022) and Art History and Theory at Metropolitan State University of Denver (2011-2021). Kealey has also guest lectured at the University of Denver, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver Art Museum, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Northern Colorado, and K Contemporary.

Kealey is focused on artistic labor and how to make visual arts and the writers that document that work financially sustainable. In 2024, Kealey mentored 20 Wyoming creatives for the Wyoming Innovation Partnership with the University of Wyoming, including three awardees of the $25,000 startup funding by the state as an investment in local art economies. This year she also contributed to two articles (here and here) on publishing for new writers with the University of Chicago’s publication Tableau.

Kealey is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA-USA). She also serves on the Executive Board of Directors for Redline Contemporary Art Center and the Board of Directors for the Women’s Studio Workshop. She has a MA in Art History and BA in Economics from the University of Chicago.