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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.

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

Exhibitions

2010

• "2010: Whitney Biennial", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA[2][3]

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, US.
• 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

2001

• Tumble Room Deitch Projects, New York.[4][5]

Collections

• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France[6]
• Museum of Modern Art, New York[7]
• Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
• Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles[8]
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles[9]
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles[10]
• 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[11]
• 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[12]

Awards

Kersels was a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.[13]

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).[14] 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.[15]

References

External links

• Martin Kersels at Yale School of Art
• Mousse Magazine

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Martin Kersels, né le 2 février 1960[1] à Los Angeles[1] en Californie, est un artiste contemporain américain. Il vit et travaille à Sierra Madre en Californie.

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