LPAPA Signature Artist Kelley Mogilka
Laguna Beach, California
Kelley Mogilka is a figurative painter born and raised in Edmond, Oklahoma. After obtaining her BFA in Studio Art at Oklahoma City University in 2018, she ventured to California to pursue life as an artist and quickly found one in the historic artist community of Laguna Beach. Mogilka received her MFA in Painting at Laguna College of Art and Design and upon graduating joined their faculty ranks as an adjunct professor. At the age of 25, Mogilka was recognized in Southwest Art Magazine’s “21 Under 31, Young Artists to Collect Now”; her paintings have been awarded by the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, the Salmagundi Club in New York; and most notably, Mogilka was the recipient of the Emerging Artist Award at Pence Gallery in Davis where she had her first solo exhibition in 2023. Her paintings exist in collections across the United States and beyond, including the Almenara Collection in Córdoba, Spain. A recurring exhibitor at the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach, she currently works out of her Laguna Canyon studio with husband and painter Mason Williams, both recipients of the 2025 Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award by Plein Air Magazine.
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