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Martin Kersels

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Martin Kersels
Born1960
NationalityAmerican
Known forPerformance Art, Sculpture
MovementContemporary Art
AwardsJohn Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship (2008), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (1999)

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.

Early life

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Kersels was born in Los Angeles in 1960.[2] He received his received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture in 1995.[3]

Academic career

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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).[4] 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.[5]

Exhibitions

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2010

2009

2008

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2002

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

2001

  • Tumble Room Deitch Projects, New York.[8][9]

Collections

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Awards

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Kersels was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.[17]

References

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  1. ^ "Martin Kersels". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  2. ^ "Martin Kersels - Artists - Mitchell-Innes & Nash". www.miandn.com. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  3. ^ "Martin Kersels". Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  4. ^ "Two New Directors Join CalArts' Staff", Los Angeles Daily News, September 17, 1999, via HighBeam Research.
  5. ^ Martin Kersels at Yale School of Art (accessed 2014-10-17).
  6. ^ "Martin Kersels". whitney.org.
  7. ^ Walleston, Aimee (March 8, 2010). "Five From the Whitney Biennial Martin Kersels".
  8. ^ Glueck, Grace (March 16, 2001). "ART IN REVIEW; Martin Kersels -- 'Tumble Room'" – via NYTimes.com.
  9. ^ "Frieze Magazine | Archive | Martin Kersels". September 7, 2008. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008.
  10. ^ "Loud House | Centre Pompidou". www.centrepompidou.fr.
  11. ^ "Martin Kersels | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  12. ^ "MacArthur Park | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu.
  13. ^ "Martin Kersels". www.moca.org.
  14. ^ "Martin Kersels | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org.
  15. ^ "Martin Kersels". whitney.org.
  16. ^ "Henry Art Gallery". collections.henryart.org.
  17. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Martin Kersels".
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