Keliy Anderson-Staley grew up off the grid in Maine, studied photography in New York City and lives and works in Houston, Texas. Her portrait work in the wet-plate collodion process explores the relationship between conceptions of identity and the history of photography. Her work has been exhibited at Akron Art Museum, Bronx Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She has had major solo exhibitions at Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA; SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL; and University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME. Her work is in the collections of Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Museum of Fine Arts-Houston and Portland Museum of Art.

Anderson-Staley was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and has received funding for her projects from the George and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Puffin Foundation. She has twice been awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance. Her book of tintype portraits, On a Wet Bough is available from Waltz Books. She is represented by Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL.

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