Kellen Wright (b. 1999, St. Charles, MO) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist currently based in St. Louis, MO working in installation, drawing, photography, and publication. Their work draws from histories of landscape painting and photography to expound upon their relationship with the contemporary environment in flux over time. 

Their practice approaches complicated contexts of place; how histories, biases, personal experiences, ecological conditions and political borders add tangible dimension to abstract boundaries. Abstraction is a lens to queer a landscape, creating situations of speculation for viewers to poetically consider the near future of our environment. Through passive practices like walking and conversation, active research such as writing, transcription, annotation, drawing, foraging, photography, and repurposing and reuse of resources, they build archives of material that denote a relationship between a body and places of overlooked potency and resilience. Their recent work specifically complicates the binaries of urban and rural and inside and outside, taking places like backyard gardens and urban parks for subject matter. 

Kellen received their B.A. in Art History and Criticism in 2022. They have exhibited throughout Missouri and Illinois.