2019 research trip to document the Euljiro neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea sponsored by R3028 at Euljiro and Arts Council of Korea.
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, Colorado Public Radio, Frieze, Art Papers, College Art Association (CAA Reviews), The Belladonna Comedy, Artillery Magazine as well as books on sculptor Wayne Brungard, the collective Pink Progession and Daisy Patton. She is the 2025 Clyfford Still Museum Institute Residential Fellow in Art Criticism.
This year her confessions of a critic essay published in ARTISTS AS WRITERS (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press) as part of Living and Sustaining a Creative Life anthology. Boyd is currently editing a book on the history of Denver’s Redline Contemporary Art Center and she is a consultant to the national literary journal Copper Nickel.
She taught Cultural Journalism at University of Colorado-Boulder (2022) and Art History and Theory at Metropolitan State University of Denver (2011-2021). Boyd also guest lectured at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, University of Denver, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver Art Museum, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Northern Colorado, and K Contemporary. She served as juror for the University of Colorado-Boulder King Awards, Jentel Arts Writing Residency (WY), Redline Contemporary Art Center Artist Residency (CO) and University of Northern Colorado’s Southard Art Award.
She is focused on artistic labor and how to make visual arts and the writers that document that work financially sustainable. In 2024, Boyd 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.
Boyd is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA-USA). She also served on the Executive Board of Directors for Redline Contemporary Art Center from 2018 to 2024. She has a MA in Art History and BA in Economics from the University of Chicago.