John R. Killacky is an American politician, former arts administrator, and artist. He was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 2019 and served two terms. Before his retirement in 2018, Killacky was the head of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vermont. Killacky also was an arts program officer with the San Francisco Foundation.
He has written numerous publications on the arts and written and directed several award-winning short films and videos. His videos have been screened in festivals, galleries, museums, hospitals, and universities world-wide and are in the collections of numerous libraries and universities. His work has been televised locally in Texas, Minnesota, Maine, and Vermont, and nationally on Free Speech TV, PBS, and Cultura24 in Holland.
He curated a retrospective photography exhibition, Dona Ann McAdams: Performative Acts, that toured to five venues in Vermont (2019âÂÂ2021). Champlain College Art Gallery hosted a retrospective of eight of his videos, Embodied Voice (2018) and he was artist-in-residence there co-curating FluxFest (2023). At Fabric Workshop and Museum (2024), he worked onsite with production staff on his intermedia installation, stillpoint. Recent installations were on view at Burlington City Arts, The Art Museum of West Virginia University, and Leicester Gallery at De Montfort University in 2026.