Ellsworth Kelly is a prominent  American painter and sculptor associated with Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the Minimalist school. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques that emphasize the simplicity of form. Kelly often employs bright colors to enhance his works.

His works are in the leading museums, public and private collections all over the world.

EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Ellsworth Kelly: Drawings 1954-1962, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
2008 Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
2008 Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
2007 Living Color, Vassarely Museum, Budapest
2006 Picasso to Pop: Aspects of Modern Art, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2005 Spectrum, Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, NY
2004 Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Das MoMA in Berlin
2003 New York, Whitney Museum, Ellsworth Kelly (solo)
2003 New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Sculpture (solo)
2003 Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, Die Fondation Maeght
2003 Warsaw, Schloss Ujazdowski, Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Von Picasso bis Warhol
2002 Basel, Fondation Beyeler, ELLSWORTH KELLY Werke 1956-2002 (solo)
2002 Ellsworth Kelly, Tablet: 1948-1973, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2001 New York, Matthew Marks Gallery (solo)
1999 New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Ellsworth Kelly - Sculpture for a Large Wall (solo)
1999 New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly: Five Decades of Line, Form  and Colour (solo)
1999 Bonn, Kunstmuseum (solo)
1999 Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (solo)
1999 Chicago, Art Institute (solo)
1999 Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper 1948-1955, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Boston, MA
1998 New York, Matthew Marks, Ellsworth Kelly. New Paintings (solo)
1998 Los Angeles, New York, Munich, Retrospectives (solo)
1996 New York, Guggenheim Museum, Ellsworth Kelly. A Retrospective (solo)
1996 Ellsworth Kelly on the Roof, Cantor Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY
1993 New Displays: Ellsworth Kelly, Tate Gallery London
1989 Chicago, Art Institute, Ellsworth Kelly: Courtyard Installation (solo)
1987 Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
1987 Ellsworth Kelly: A Print Retrospective, The Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI
1982 Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY (solo)
1979 XXXVI Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 36th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting together with Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg
1979 New York, Leo Castelli Gallery (solo)
1979 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Ellsworth Kelly: Painting and Sculpture (solo)
1979 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ellsworth Kelly Recent Paintings and Sculpture
1973 New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly. Curved Series (solo)
1973 New York, MoMA, Retrospective (solo)
1968 New York, MoMA, The Art of the Real, USA 1948-1968
1966 American Pavilion, XXXIII Venice Biennale
1965 New York, Sidney Janis Gallery (solo)
1964 Paris, Galerie Maeght (solo)
1963 Washington DC, Gallery of Modern Art, Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings by Ellsworth Kelly (solo)
1959 Sixteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
1958 Paris, Galerie Maeght (solo)
1957 New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Young America 1957
1956 New York, Betty Parsons Gallery (solo)
1951 Paris, Galerie Arnaud (solo)
1947 Boston, Boris Mirski Art Gallery

Ellsworth Kelly lives and works in Spencertown, New York