Martin Kersels

Martin Kersels
Born	1960 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Field	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. Who focuses his shows on sculpture, while also incorporating photography and video. He now lives and works in Sierra Madre, CA. He is currently the co-director of the Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts.

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

External links

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• New York Times Review
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