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Kelly Lycan is an installation and photo-based artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Life
Lycan was born in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada. She moved to Toronto where she attended Ryerson Polytechnical University from 1985 to 1987 where he studied still photography. From 1987 to 1990 she worked as a freelance photographer, photo assistant and prop buyer for television commercials. She then attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design from 1991 to 1992 where she obtained a B.F.A., and the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1996 to 1998 where she obtained a M.F.A.. Between 1997 and 1998 she was on exchange at University of California, Los Angeles. She has had solo exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Presentation House Gallery, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Western Front, Or Gallery, Plug In ICA, Gallery TPW, and Centre A Gallery. In 2005 she became a member of Instant Coffee Artist Collective. As a member of the collective she has shown at

Artistic practice
Lycan's practice is installation and photo-based, and investigates the way in which "objects are placed and displayed in the world and the cycle of value and exchange they go through." She re-purposes vernacular materials and object, infusing new meaning through installation alongside other objects and materials, as in her exhibition Autobiography for No One at SFU Gallery, Burnaby. Lycan investigates methods of display inspired by spaces as varied as museums, galleries, collections, institutional gift shops, cheap retail stores, and high-end department stores. Two prominent examples of installations that focus on this include Underglow and White Hot. Lycan complicates the history and medium of photography through its treatment as sculpture and painting.

Collaborations
Lycan has worked as a member of Instant Coffee Artist Collective since 2005. They have worked on a number of public art projects as well as Light Bar events since… The collective have shown internationally, including Kamploops Art Gallery, at Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea; MKG 127, Mercer Union, and Gallery 44 in Toronto, Ontario, BigodinoFont Studio, Berlin, Germany, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco; Denmark, and Finland.

Reviews
Michael Turner’s Top 3 of 2014: Moments of Possession, "Canadian Art", December 19, 2014 Marina Roy, “Autobiography for No One”, Canadian Art Magazine, Winter 2015 Robin Laurence, "Fall arts preview: Visual artist Kelly Lycan merges photos and installations", The Georgia Straight, September 10, 2014 Randy Lee Culter, Kelly Lycan: Autobiography for No One, LeftCoastArt