Kelly Falzone Inouye (b. 1975 Woodland, CA) earned a BA from UC San Diego in 1998 and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. 

Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at venues including Marrow Gallery in San Francisco, SPRING/BREAK Art Show LA, and Interface Gallery in Oakland. Her work has been included in numerous group shows including “Reclamation” at Pamela Walsh Gallery in Palo Alto and “Contemporary Watercolor” at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City. She has been awarded public art projects by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her work has also been featured in publications including The San Francisco Chronicle and New American Paintings.

Inouye also founded and ran Irving Street Projects, a San Francisco-based residency program that provided project development and exhibition opportunities to fellow Bay Area artists from 2015-2020.

She lives and works in San Francisco, California. Her paintings explore social issues through popular culture, focusing on personal reflection.