Simon Kelly is Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. He has organized numerous exhibitions, including the recent co-curating of Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí (2020), Rachel Whiteread (2019), Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis (2018-19) and Oliver Lee Jackson (2021-2022). He has also published extensively, particularly on modern French art, including his new book, Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market: An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in 19th-Century France (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). His most recent publication is an essay in the exhibition catalogue, Oliver Lee Jackson (2022). Kelly received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he also taught at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
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