Kelly Russo has been a practicing artist since 2014. She received her Masters in Architecture and Design in 2012 from University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Her art has been selected for the following:
2016 - Private collection showing, ‘Gallery 333’
2017 - Private collection showing exhibition and guest lecturer at ‘Galerie Touchet’ with artist Eric Todd
2017 - ‘Documentation of the Creative Mind’, exhibit of journals from designers around the USA, studioryker
2020 - Biedenharn Museum and Gardens, ‘Adam and Eve, the Garden and Beyond’ Selective Jury
2020 - ACA Exhibit - Artist Quarantine
2024 - Selected works for ‘George Loli: Theatrics of Space’, ACA
2025 - Work Exhibited in first Franco FAE exhibition, ACA
2020 - ‘Best in Works on Paper’ for Big Easel
2015 - Guest Artist for ‘Project Rooster Teeth’, a live art experience by Freetown Studios
Featured in several publications, including Runaway Dish and 337 Magazine

Kelly Russo practices expressing gentle contrast between growth and preservation - of memory, moments, artifacts, skills, nature. Her works exalt paused subjects to an altar, idyllic, and often contrasted with motion and evolution using imperfect methods, regardless of the medium. Her earlier works invoke dynamic and bold efforts at expressing these relationships using flora of regional south Louisiana. Her work came to eventually be dominated by regional birds. The subjects of her work can be viewed as muses: feminine, powerful, ephemeral figures exhibiting continual strength, risking emerging off the canvas. She is currently pushing past the canvas herself.