Martin Kersels (born 1960) is an American contemporary artist. Kersels' work is largely installation based, incorporating

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and

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. Kersels is a professor of sculpture and director of graduate studies at the Yale School of Art.

Exhibitions

2010 *"2010: Whitney Biennial", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 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 The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in Los Angeles, California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. The Getty Center is located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles and fea ...

, Los Angeles, USA 2008 *"Headache and Other New Works", ACME., Los Angeles, USA *''Heavyweight Champion'',

Santa Monica Museum of Art The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), formerly known as the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA), is a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, CA. As an independent and non-collecting art museum (or kunsthalle), it exhibits the ...

, 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, US. *''Illuminous'', Guido Costa Project, Turin, Italy. 2002 *''Fat Man'', Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France *''Bracelet'', Peggy Phelps Gallery,

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, USA *''Martin Kersels, Showette / John Sonsini Recent Paintings'', ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2001 *''Tumble Room'' Deitch Projects, New York.

Collections

Centre Georges Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

, Paris, France *

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

, New York *

, Santa Monica * Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach *

Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...

, Los Angeles *

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's o ...

, Los Angeles *

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...

, Los Angeles *

Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) may refer to: Africa * Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco, officially le Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi Asia East Asia * Museum of Contemporary Art Shangha ...

, North Miami * Fonds national d'art contemporain, Paris, France *

Centre national des arts plastiques The Centre national des arts plastiques (National Centre for Visual Arts, Cnap) is a French institution established in 1982 under the Ministry of Culture and Communication that promotes creation of visual arts. It provides assistance to artists and ...

, Paris, France *

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...

, New York * Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI * The Francis Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga, NY * Schwartz Art Collection,

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, Cambridge, MA * Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington

Awards

Kersels was a 2008

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

Academic career

In 1999 Kersels and author/artist

Leslie Dick Leslie Dick (born 1954) is an American artist, writer, editor, and educator, based in Los Angeles. Her work explores feminist themes, especially in relation to queer theory and Lacanian discourse. Dick has published two novels, a collection of sh ...

were jointly selected "to run the arts program" at CalArts at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). 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.Martin Kersels
at Yale School of Art (accessed 2014-10-17).

References

External links

Martin Kersels
at Yale School of Art
Mousse Magazine
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kersels, Martin American contemporary artists Living people 1960 births Performance art in Los Angeles Artists from Los Angeles California Institute of the Arts faculty Yale University faculty