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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Martin Kersels

Role
  
Artist


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Born
  
1960
Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Known for
  
Performance art/Sculpture

Education
  
University of California, Los Angeles (1995)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

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Martin Kersels is an American contemporary artist born in 1960 in Los Angeles. Kersels' work is often installation based and incorporates sculpture, photography and video.

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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). 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.

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Recent exhibitions

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2010

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  • "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, Los Angeles, USA
  • 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
  • References

    Martin Kersels Wikipedia