Background

Ethnicity: Kaloust Guedel is a Cyprus-born artist of Armenian descent.

Kaloust Guedel was born on October 31, 1956 in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Education

Kaloust Guedel is a self-educated artist.

Career

Guedel lives and works in Los Angeles, California since 1975.

His work explores contemporary issues often taking a critical stand on various societies shortcomings. Throughout the years, it has explored subjects as genocide, war, abuse and others. Regardless of the styles and technics he has employed, his work has been consistent with contemporary sensibility and has reflected the consciousness of its time. Guedel is the first artist who used vinyl as a medium in paintings.

One of his early exhibitions took place at Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio in 1986. Guedel also exhibited in the United States, Armenia, South Korea, China, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Japan.

Achievements

• Guedel has been known to explore capitalism and excess in his minimalist conceptual artworks. He has also been featured in publications like "Masters of Today".
  
  Besides, in 2017, he was awarded the Marquis Who's Who in American Art Lifetime Achievement Award.

Works

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  • Painting #5

  • Visual Gravity #2

  • The Wall Standard

  • Painting #4

  • Stage 3

  • Painting #6

  • Excess #274

  • The Ultimate Bundle (Obama portrait)

  • Painting #1

  • Crossover Maestro

  • #00283

  • #104

  • From Red To Silver

  • Coronation Of Vagina

  • Excess #278

Membership

Kaloust Guedel is the founder of the Excessivism movement.