Martin Kersels
{{Short description|American artist (born 1960)}}
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| birth_date = 1960
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| nationality = American
| known_for = Performance Art, Sculpture
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| movement = Contemporary Art
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| awards = John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship (2008), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (1999)
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Martin Kersels (born 1960) is an American contemporary artist. Kersels' work is largely installation based, incorporating sculpture, photography and video.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/martin-kersels-3|title=Martin Kersels|website=The New Yorker|language=en|access-date=2019-12-28}} Kersels is a professor of sculpture and director of graduate studies at the Yale School of Art.
Early life
Kersels was born in Los Angeles in 1960.{{Cite web |title=Martin Kersels - Artists - Mitchell-Innes & Nash |url=https://www.miandn.com/artists/martin-kersels |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=www.miandn.com |language=en}} He received his received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture in 1995.{{Cite web |title=Martin Kersels |url=https://www.mmoca.org/learn/teaching-pages/martin-kersels/ |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=Madison Museum of Contemporary Art |language=en-US}}
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).[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924164320/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-83622455.html "Two New Directors Join CalArts' Staff"], Los Angeles Daily News, September 17, 1999, via HighBeam Research. 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.[http://art.yale.edu/MartinKersels Martin Kersels] at Yale School of Art (accessed 2014-10-17).
Exhibitions
2010
- "2010: Whitney Biennial", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2010-biennial/Martin-Kersels|title=Martin Kersels|website=whitney.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/five-from-the-whitney-biennial-martin-kersels-57924/|title=Five From the Whitney Biennial Martin Kersels|first=Aimee|last=Walleston|date=March 8, 2010}}
2009
- Fat Iggy: Discography, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
- "Fat Iggy", Guido Costa Projects, Torino, Italy
- "California Video", The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US
2008
- "Headache and Other New Works", ACME., Los Angeles, US
- Heavyweight Champion, Santa Monica Museum of Art, US
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/16/arts/art-in-review-martin-kersels-tumble-room.html|title=ART IN REVIEW; Martin Kersels -- 'Tumble Room'|first=Grace|last=Glueck|date=March 16, 2001|via=NYTimes.com}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/martin_kersels|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907231612/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/martin_kersels|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 7, 2008|title=Frieze Magazine | Archive | Martin Kersels|date=September 7, 2008}}
Collections
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France{{Cite web|url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/id/cBKoBdb/rgoMyg/fr|title=Loud House | Centre Pompidou|website=www.centrepompidou.fr}}
- Museum of Modern Art, New York{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/28677|title=Martin Kersels | MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}
- Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
- Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
- Hammer Museum, Los Angeles{{Cite web|url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/collections/ucla-artists-in-the-hammer-museum-collections/art/macarthur-park|title=MacArthur Park | Hammer Museum|website=hammer.ucla.edu}}
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles{{Cite web|url=https://www.moca.org/artist/martin-kersels|title=Martin Kersels|website=www.moca.org}}
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles{{Cite web|url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/153705|title=Martin Kersels | LACMA Collections|website=collections.lacma.org}}
- Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
- Fonds national d'art contemporain, Paris, France
- Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/artists/12072|title=Martin Kersels|website=whitney.org}}
- Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
- The Francis Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga, NY
- Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
- Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington{{Cite web|url=https://collections.henryart.org/detail.php?category1=&maker=&place_made=&culture=&title=&date_made=&option8=&materials=&option4=&stage=&credit_line=Steven+Johnson+and+Walter+Sudol&id_number=&op-earliest_year==&earliest_year=&op-latest_year==&latest_year=&module=objects&type=advanced&sortby=date_made&sortdir=desc&kv=24605&record=27&page=1|title=Henry Art Gallery|website=collections.henryart.org}}
Awards
References
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External links
- [http://art.yale.edu/MartinKersels Martin Kersels] at Yale School of Art
- [http://www.moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=468 Mousse Magazine]
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Category:American contemporary artists
Category:Performance art in Los Angeles
Category:Artists from Los Angeles