Martin Kersels

Martin Kersels (born 1960) is an American contemporary artist. Kersels' work is largely installation based, incorporating sculpture, photography and video.[1] Kersels is a Professor of Sculpture and Director of Graduate Studies at the Yale School of Art.

Martin Kersels
Born1960
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known forPerformance Art, Sculpture
Notable work
Falling photos (4,5,6) (1994–1996), 5 Songs (2010), Sleeper's Dream (2003), Kouros and me #3 (2000),MacArthur Park (1996)
MovementContemporary Art
AwardsJohn Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship (2008), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (1999)

Exhibitions

2010

  • "2010: Whitney Biennial", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA[2][3]

2009

2008

  • "Headache and Other New Works", ACME., Los Angeles, USA
  • Heavyweight Champion, Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA

2007

  • Heavyweight Champion, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga, USA

2006

  • Tumble Room/Deitch Projects, Art Unlimited, Art 37 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Charms in a Throne Room, ACME., Los Angeles, USA

2005

  • Orchestra for Idiots, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France

2004

  • Wishing Well, ACME, Los Angeles, USA.
  • Illuminous, Guido Costa Project, Turin, Italy.

2002

  • Fat Man, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
  • Bracelet, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, USA
  • Martin Kersels, Showette / John Sonsini Recent Paintings, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2001

  • Tumble Room Deitch Projects, New York.[4][5]

Collections

Awards

Kersels was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.[13]

Academic career

In 1999 Kersels and author/artist Leslie Dick were jointly selected "to run the arts program" at CalArts at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).[14] Kersels served as co-director of the CalArts Program in Art until he moved to the Yale School of Art, where in 2012 he became an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture.[15]

gollark: You realise that telling people to shut up does not in fact improve your argument?
gollark: ...
gollark: > "don't know how to program"> wants to do complex project
gollark: I don't think people here will do that.
gollark: Ah, so you want the code written for you?

References
  1. "Martin Kersels". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  2. "Martin Kersels". whitney.org.
  3. Walleston, Aimee (March 8, 2010). "Five From the Whitney Biennial Martin Kersels".
  4. Glueck, Grace (March 16, 2001). "ART IN REVIEW; Martin Kersels -- 'Tumble Room'" – via NYTimes.com.
  5. "Frieze Magazine | Archive | Martin Kersels". September 7, 2008. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008.
  6. "Loud House | Centre Pompidou". www.centrepompidou.fr.
  7. "Martin Kersels | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  8. "MacArthur Park | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu.
  9. "Martin Kersels". www.moca.org.
  10. "Martin Kersels | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org.
  11. "Martin Kersels". whitney.org.
  12. "Henry Art Gallery". collections.henryart.org.
  13. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Martin Kersels".
  14. "Two New Directors Join CalArts' Staff", Los Angeles Daily News, September 17, 1999  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) .
  15. Martin Kersels at Yale School of Art (accessed 2014-10-17).


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