Background
Kersels, Martin was born in 1960 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Kersels, Martin was born in 1960 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Bachelor in art, University of California at Los Angeles, 1984. Master of Fine Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1995.
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). 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.
2010
"2010: Whitney Biennial", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States of America
2009
Fat Iggy: Discography, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
"Fat Iggy", Guido Costa Projects, Torino, Italy
"California Video", The Jean Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States of America
2008
"Headache and Other New Works", Association for Convention Marketing Executives., Los Angeles, United States of America
2006
Tumble Room/Deitch Projects, Art Unlimited, Art 37 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Charms in a Throne Room, Association for Convention Marketing Executives., Los Angeles, United States of America
2005
Orchestra for Idiots, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
2004
Wishing Well, Association for Convention Marketing Executives, Los Angeles, United States of America. Illuminous, Guido Costa Project, Turin, Italy.
2002
Fat Manitoba, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
Bracelet, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, United States of America
Martin Kersels, Showette / John Sonsini Recent Paintings, Association for Convention Marketing Executives Gallery, Los Angeles, United States of America
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Association for Convention Marketing Executives., Los Angeles
Galerie Vallois, Paris, France
Guido Costa Projects, Torino, Italy.