Kelley Simons Syed is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, drawing, and installation. She received a 2024 Delaware Valley Arts Association Individual Artist Fellowship grant for her current work which re-imagines Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” through the transformative lens of aging and menopause. Simons Syed has been accepted into the Fall 2024 NYFA/NYSCA Artist as Entrepreneur Program, was a finalist for the 2024 Fall KODA Lab Residency, and was a TransBorderArt Fellow Resident on Governors Island in 2023. She has exhibited her work nationally in New York, Boston, and Miami, and has work currently on view with the Site: Brooklyn Gallery. Simons Syed received her MFA in Studio for Interrelated Media from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. In 2023, she self-published the limited edition artist’s book "25 Tips for Survival in a Pandemic" through a successful crowdfunding campaign that was funded within 24 hours.