Mike Kelley worked in a diverse range of genres and styles, including performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, photography, sound works, text, and sculpture. Starting out in the late 1970s with solo performances, paintings, and site-specific installations, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with sculptures composed of common craft materials. In his later years, his work reflected on how architecture, institutions, and memory shape identity and social formations. His work is included in the permanent collections of many of the most prestigious museums, and he has been the subject of major retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Tate Modern, London.
