PATRICK PAINTER, INC
MIKE KELLEY
1954 Born in Detroit, MI Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1976 BFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1978 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 KANDORS, Museums Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld Kandor 10 / Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #34, Kandor 12 / Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #35, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2010 Arenas, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Selections from Kandors, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France Horizontal Tracking Shots, Gagosian Gallery West 24th Street, New York, New York
2008 Hotel California, Galerie Georges-Philippe& Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France The Memory Years: 1995-2008, A Retrospective at WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, Belgium Mike Kelley Educational Complex Onwards: 1995-2008, WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
2007 MEMORY WARE FLATS, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY Hermaphrodite Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, London, England Kandors, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany Kandor Con 2000, Jablonka Galerie in cooperation with Harald Falckenberg, Berlin, Germany Video Trajectories, The List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2006 Profondeurs Vertes, Le Musée du Louvre, Paris Liquid Diet and Related Works, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
2005 Galleri Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden Me · di · um, Rue du Roi Oscar II, St. Barthélemy, French West Indies Day is Done, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, England; MUMOK, Vienna Mike Kelley: Selected Works from the 1980’s and 1990’s, Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York, NY Mike Kelley, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
2003 Mike Kelley: Memory Ware, Wood Grain, Carpet, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy PATRICK PAINTER, INC
Sod and Sodie Sock, collatboration with Paul McCarthy, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Institut d’art contemporain, Lyon, France (catalogue) The Poetics Project 1977-1997, collaboration with Tony Oursler, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, England
2002 Black Out, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA Reversals, Recyclings, Completions, and Late Additions, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Brazil Sod and Sodie Sock, Brazil Mike Kelley: Selected Works 1982 – 1990, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY Mike Kelley: The Poetry of Form: Part of an Ongoing Attempt to Develop an Auteur Theory of Naming, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Mike Kelley: Test Room, Galerie Art et Public, Geneva, Switzerland
2001 Memory Ware, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany Mike Kelley, Sperone Jr, Rome, Italy Memory Ware, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
2000 The Poetics Project: 1977-1997 (Documenta Version), collaboration with Tony Oursler, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris The Consolation Prize: Mike Kelley and John Miller, Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC (catalogue) Destroy All Monsters: Postmodern Multimedia and Musical Mutations (Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, and Cary Loren), Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA Mike Kelley: Sublevel, Framed and Frame, Test Room, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada (catalogue) Unisex Love Nest, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Mike Kelley & Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Sammlung Goetz and Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (catalogue) Mike Kelley, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy Categorical Imperative and Morgue, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Mike Kelley: Paintings and Drawings from the Rowan Collection, Christie’s, New York, NY Mike Kelley: Sublevel, Framed and Frame, Test Room, Migros Museum, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Photographs: Folios & Installations, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Switzerland The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection Let the Healing Begin, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Anti/Form: Sculptures from the MUMOK Collection, New Galerie Graz-Universalmuseum Joanneum Compass: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin Move: Kunst und Tanz den 60ern Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Seeing is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL PATRICK PAINTER, INC
2010 The Artists Museum, “Pay for Your Pleasure”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Rewind: 1970s – 1990s Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois A Voyage of Growth And Discovery, West of Rome Public Art at the Farley Building, Los Angeles, CA Meet Me Inside, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA A Selection of Photo Editions - Patrick Painter Editions, Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Slightly Unbalanced, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia Crash Homage to JG Ballard, Gagosian Gallery, London, England Skin Fruit: Seclections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, NY
2009 Koons, Kelley, Koh, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida Magrite and Light, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Rock-Paper-Scissors Pop-Music as Subject of Visual Art, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Austria Collecting History Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA Major Works on Paper, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, CA Ecstatic Abstraction, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Self-Portraits, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY Dance with Camera, Institue of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York Le Planete des Signes (Erudition Concrete 1), Le Plateau/FRAC Ile de France, Paris, France Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA Das Gespinst, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany California Maximalism: Sticking A Spike Into The Vein of Memory, Nyehaus, New York, NY Group Show, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2008 Faces and Figures (Revisited), Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY The Puppet Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Paul Thek: In the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany Prefab, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Matthew Marks, New York, NY Listen Darling…The World Is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitao, Portugal
2007 Fit to Print: Printed Media in Recent Collage, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY SCULPTURE PROJECTS MÜNSTER 07, Münster, Germany A Point In Space Is A Place For An Argument, David Zwirner, New York, NY SUMMER SHOW, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY POP ART IS…, Gagosian Gallery, London L.A. Desire, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, Germany PATRICK PAINTER, INC
Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Substance & Surface, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY Collateral: When Art Looks Like Cinema, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy Make Your Own Life: Artists in and out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (catalogue)
2006 Works on Paper, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA INTO ME/OUT OF ME, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY Replay: la sphere punk, Magasin, Grenoble, France Infinite Painting, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Udine, Italy Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, MOMA, New York, NY A Handful of Dust, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London Photography, Video, Film: Constructing Realities, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY Everybody Dance Now, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Gallery, New York, NY Kunst aus Los Angeles: der 60er bis 90er Jahre, Kunstverein, Brunswick, Germany (catalogue) BIACS 2, Fundacion BIACS, Seville, Spain (catalogue) Red Eye: LA Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) The 80s: A Topology, Museu de Arte Contemprânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (catalogue) Kunstraum Grässlin: Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Sammlung Grässlin, St. Georgen, Germany Drawn into the World: Drawings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Cavities-Space Personified, Cal State Fullerton Visual Arts Center, Fullerton, CA L.A. Art Scene, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (catalogue) Public Space/Two Audiences: Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain Ego Mania: Just when I think I’ve understood…, Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy (catalogue)
2005 Video II: Allegorie, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany Interstate, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY Self Portraits, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY Drunk Vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York, NY Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Likeness: Portraits of Artists By Other Artists, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA The Meeting, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA Goetz Meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg Kulturstiftung Phoenix Art, Hamburg- Harburg, Germany (catalogue) Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (catalogue) Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Private View 1980-2000, Collection Pierre Huber, Le Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland PATRICK PAINTER, INC
Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the Eighties, Curator Philipp Kaiser, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Germany (catalogue) The Blake Byme Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) Mixed-Up Childhood, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (catalogue) Chocolate Art, Museum Ludwig, Imhoff-Stollwerck Museum, Hatje Cantz, Cologne, Germany (catalogue) L’Art de Vivre, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2004 buy art bye-bye bush, Democratic Victory 2004, Los Angeles Art Auction, Los Angeles, CA Animals, Haunch of Venison, London (catalogue) Disparities & Deformations, curated by Robert Storr, Site Sante Fe, NM (catalogue) Beautiful Grotesque, Riva Gallery, New York, NY Likeness: Portraits of Artists by other Artists, curated by Matthew Higgs, Kevin Killian, David Robins, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA and Independent Curators International, New York, NY (catalogue) 100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA 100 Artists See God, organized by Independent Curators International; Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL; The Jewish Museum San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN Drafting Deceit, Apex Art, New York, NY Piss Off, Museum of New Art (MONA), Pontiac, MI Uses of the Image: Photography, Film and Video in The Jumex Collection, Malba - Coleccion Costantini, Bueno Aires, Argentina Dimensione Follis (Dimension Folly), Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy Drafting Deceit, Apexart, New York, NY WOW (the Work of the Work), Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (catalogue) Jahresgaben 04/05, Kunsverein Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany (catalogue) Taschen Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (catalogue) Les Enfants Terrible: Il linguaggio dell’infanzia nell’Arte 1909-2004, Museo Cantonale di Lugano, Switzerland (catalogue) 25th Annual Benefit Auction, LACE, Los Angeles, CA Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (catalogue) Off the Record: Sound Arc, ARC/Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France I Am the Wrath of God, MOT, London, England Paradiso e Interno, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (catalogue) White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2003 The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (catalogue) Whiteness, A Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA CAPP Street Project: 20th Anniversary Exhibition: Roni Horn, Ann Veronica Janssens, Mike Kelley, Mike Nelson, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Emi Fontana Galleria, Milan, Italy PATRICK PAINTER, INC
The Not-So-Still-Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (catalogue) Fast Forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue) Numéro O- Magaines: du messafe au médium, Centre National de l’estampe et de l’art Imprimé, Chatou, France Stars, Une Exposition- Promenade Parodic, Ècole Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Tours, France Il Racconto del filo, Ricamo e cucito nell’arte contemporanea, MART, Trento, Italy Castastrofi minime, curated by Fernando Castro, Saretto Cincinelli, Cristiana Collu, MAN, Nuoro, Italy (catalogue) Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2003: C’est Arrive demain, collaboration with Paul McCarthy, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France Outlook: International Art Exhibition Athens, Factory, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece Sitings: Installation Art 1969-2002, Museum of Contemporary Art at The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA At Work: The Art of California Labor, California Historical Society, San Francisco and the Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Bienal de Valencia: La Ciudad, Genralitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England Micropolitics: Art and Everyday Life (2001-1968), Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Valencia, Spain (catalogue) False Innocence, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue) Trésors Publics, collaboration with Paul McCarthy, Musee d’ Art Moderne et d’ Art Contemporain de Strasbourg, Germany Do It, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Phantom of Desire: Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Galerie Graz and Stadtmuseum Graz, am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria Raid The Icebox—From the Backroom: Artists Select, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California MARS – Art and War, Gesellschaft der Freunde der Neuen Galerie, Graz, Austria
2002 Pressing, Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium 2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Sonic Process, Museum d’Art Comtemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (catalogue) Laid Bare, Bergen Kunsthalle; Sorlandets Art Museum, Norway (catalogue) L'arte del gioco. Da Klee a Boetti, Museo Archeologico Regionale, Aosta, curated by Pietro Bellasi, Alberto Fiz, Tulliola Sparagni, Aosta, Italy Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio (catalogue) The Object Sculpture, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom (catalogue) Garden of Violence, Historical Museum of Murten, Switzerland Art Downtown, Wall Street Rising, New York, NY Permanent Collection Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Shoot the Singer: Music on Video, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Hommage an Rudolf Schwarzkogler, 30 Jahre Galerie Krinzinger, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria PATRICK PAINTER, INC
5 X 5 Five by Five: Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY Self-portraits and portraits, WAKO Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan Last Spring in Paris, Patrick Seguin Gallery, Paris, France Conversations?—Recent acquisitions of the Van Abbemuseum, Academy of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece Material World: From Lichtenstein to Viola, 25 Years of The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Mutiples Objets de Désir: Acquisitions 2001 du fonds national d’art Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France Music in Me, Geselleschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany.
2001 Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL Artists Take on Detroit: Projects for the Tricentennial, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (catalogue) American Art, from the Goetz Collection, Galerie Rudolfinum, The Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic Painter Editions – Recent Projects, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA Un Art Populaire, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris Connivence, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France The Body & Sin, Bienal de Valencia, Spain Art/Music: rock, pop, techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Homes for the Soul: Micro-Architecture in Medieval and Contemporary Art, Gallery 4, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England After the Beginning and Before the End: Instruction Drawings, Bergen Art Museum, Norway Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY and The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (catalogue) A Room of their Own: From Rothko to Rauschenberg, From Arbus to Gober, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Dub’L – intROOdER, (Mike Kelley & Paul McCarthy), Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland Los Angeles Artists for the Benefit of New York City, Yamagata Studio, Los Angeles, California Desire Admire Acquire, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA Eye Infection, Stedelijk Museum, The Netherlands (catalogue) Uniform Order and Disorder, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy (catalogue) Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue) Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Retorn al País de les Meravelles: L’art contemporani I la infància, Centre Cultural de la Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue) Neue Welt, Frankfurterkunsterverein, Frankfurt, Germany American Art from the Goetz Collection, Munich, Galerie Rudolfinum, The Center of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic Biennale de Lyon, Art contemporain, Musée d’ Art contemporain, Lyon, France (catalogue) The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (catalogue) Bienal de Valencia, Genralitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain PATRICK PAINTER, INC
Play’s the Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY Trans>Editions, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Many Colored Objects Placed Side by Side to Form a Row of Many Colored Objects; Works from the Collection of Annick and Anton Herbert, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (catalogue) Open Ends: 11 Exhibitions of Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Apocolypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London (catalogue) The Big G Stands for Goodness: Corita Kent’s 1960s Pop, Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Couples, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (catalogue) Sonic Matters, Sonic Collaborations, Printed Matter, Inc. New York, NY Art in the 80’s, P.S. 1, New York, NY Arte Americana: Ultimo Decennio, Ravenna, Logetta, Lombardesca, Italy (catalogue) American Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo There is Something You Should Know: Die EVN Sammlung in Belvedere, Austrian Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria 21st Annual Benefit Art Auction, LACE, Los Angeles, CA Drawing From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Let’s Entertain, Walker Art Center, St. Paul, MN; Portland Art Museum, OR; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Miami Art Museum, FL (catalogue) Food for the Mind: Die Sammlung Udo and Anette Brandhorst, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst in the Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (catalogue) Because a fire was in my head, South London Gallery, London Almost Warm and Fuzzy, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA After Life, 11 Duke Street, London