Martin Kersels

Martin Kersels
Born	1960 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Known for	Performance art/Sculpture
Awards	John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2008/Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship,2008/Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, 1999.

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.

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).^[1] 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 Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture.^[2]

Recent 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, 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

Martin Kersels representing Galleries

• Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
• ACME., Los Angeles
• Galerie Vallois, Paris, France
• Guido Costa Projects, Torino, Italy

References

1. "Two New Directors Join CalArts' Staff", Los Angeles Daily News, September 17, 1999  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) .
2. Martin Kersels at Yale School of Art (accessed 2014-10-17).

External links

• Martin Kersels at Yale School of Art
• http://www.moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=468
• http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/finer-things/2010-03-08/five-from-the-whitney-biennial-martin-kersels/
• New York Times Review
• http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/martin_kersels/