Mike Kelley
ARTIST
Mike Kelley, born in 1954 in Detroit, lives and works in Los Angeles.

Mike Kelley has been active since the late 1970s; his work has had a profound effect on the art of recent years. The references in Kelley's output are varied: the countercultures of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the mass psychology of pop culture, body art and feminism, American conceptual art, and the historical avantgardes. Kelley reconciles these elements through the construction of a personal poetic cosmology built on visual and linguistic analogies. In the presence of his works the viewer is transported into myriad physical and psychological spaces.

Works and projects by Mike Kelley have been included in many important exhibitions, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (1991); Kunsthalle Basel; ICA, London; CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux (1992); Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Haus der Kunst, Munchen; Whitney Museum, New York (1993); Kunstverein Hamburg (1995); Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Rooseum, Malmö; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1997); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1998); Wiener Secession, Wien; MOCA, Los Angeles (1999); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Sammlung Goetz and Lenbachhaus, Munich (2000); Bienniale de Lyon, Lyon; MOMA, New York (2001); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York (2002); Tate Liverpool (2004); ZKM, Museum fuer Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (2005); Musée du Louvre, Paris; Le Magasin, Grenoble (2006); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MACBA, Barcelona; Palazzo Grassi, Venezia; (2007); Wiels, Bruxelles; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; MuHKA, Antwerp (2008).
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