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 her writing is featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Art Newspaper, 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, Anna Valdez and Pard Morrison. 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 given guest lectures at the University of Denver, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver Art Museum, University of Northern Colorado, and K Contemporary.

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