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 an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture.[2]

Recent exhibitions

2010

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2002

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).


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