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Patrick Kelly works in a variety of mediums such as painting, sculpture, drawing, and digital. His current work can be summed up succinctly—"My primary goal in making art is imagining and actualizing that which has never existed through the consideration and re-presentation of that which is often forgotten or disregarded.” Kelly was born in Houston and raised in Lubbock, Texas. He received his BFA from the University of North Texas in Denton and an MFA from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He is a past recipient of a Dallas Museum of Art - Awards to Artists - Dozier Travel Grant and a Mid-America Arts Alliance / National Endowment for the Arts - Painting Fellowship. Over his career, his work has been included in over 75 solo and group exhibitions including the Amarillo Museum of Art, Galveston Arts Center, Contemporary Art Center - Fort Worth, Arlington Museum of Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum - Kansas City, Missouri as well as many other institutions and galleries throughout Texas and the United States. His work is included in numerous private and institutional collections. Currently he is Executive Director and Curator at the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, Texas.