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Mike Kelley

(American, 1954–2012)

Mike Kelley

Pansy Metal/Clovered Hoof, 1989

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Mike Kelley

Twisted Shamrock, 1989

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Mike Kelley

Hangin’-Heavy-Hairy-Horny, 1989

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Mike Kelley

Unlucky Clover, 1989

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Mike Kelley

Peat Spade, 1989

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Biography

Timeline

1954: Born in Detroit, MI
1976: BFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1978: MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1997: Awarded Skowhegan Medal for Mixed Media
2012: Died in Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions

2013: Mike Kelley: Themes and Variations from 35 Years, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (solo)
2012: Mike Kelley: Themes and Variations from 35 Years, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (solo)
: Memory Ware Flats, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum, New York
: Heinz and Marianne Ebers Foundation: A Collection with Stature, Museum Haus Lange, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
: Let the Healing Begin, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
: Mike Kelley: Exploded Fortress of Solitude, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Mike Kelley: Kandor 10/ Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #34 (solo)
: Kandor 12/ Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #35, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
: Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rome
: The Spectacular Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Travel to: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Montclair Art Museum, Houston; Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, NC
: Power to the Imagination – Artists, Posters and Politics, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
: The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
: Zwei Sammler: Thomas Olbricht und Harald Falckenberg, Halle für aktuelle Kunst, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
: Unpainted Paintings, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York City, New York
: David Askevold: The Disorientation Scientist, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
: Rear Window: Brought to you in high-def, Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011: Museum der Wünsch/Museum of Desires: Jeff Wall, Louise Lawler, Mike Kelley, Isa Genzken, Franz West, Stephen Prina, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
: Mike Kelley: Arenas, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Meet Me Inside, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
: Martin Kippenberger + Mike Kelley, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
: Crash: Homage to JG Ballard, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
: A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, West of Rome Public Art presented at The Farley Building, Los Angeles, CA
: Summer Shows, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2010: Medium: Photography, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, CA
: Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger, Mike Kelley, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
: Mike Kelley/Terence Koh/Jeff Koons, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
: Bijoux de Famille, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
: Regift, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
: A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, NY
: Mike Kelley: Horizontal Tracking Shots, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 24th Street, NY (solo)
2009: Mike Kelley: Day is Done Judson Church Dance, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY (solo)
: A Certain State of the World ? Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russa
: Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York City, NY
: Eyes Wide Open, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Colateral 2: Quando a arte olha o cinema, SESC (Serviço Social do Comércio) Avenida Paulista, São Paolo, Brazil
: Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: Do Not Play with Dead Things, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Villa Arson, Nice, France
: BCAM, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Slightly Unbalanced, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago. Travelled to: Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia; Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
: California Video, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
: The Puppet Show, ICA-Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
: Mike Kelley Educational Complex Onwards: 1995-2008, (curated by Anne Pontégnie), Wiels, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: Adotta un Disegno (Adopt a Drawing), Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome. Travelled to: Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
: Jedermann Collection – Set 5 from the Fotomuseum Winterthur Collection, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich
: Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, England
: Paul Thek in the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany. Travel to: Sammlung Falckenberg Hamburg, Germany
: Painting Now and Forever, Part II, Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
: Prefab, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, NY
: for what you are about to receive, Gagosian Gallery, Moscow
: Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA
2008: Mike Kelley: 1018 Art, New York, Ny (solo)
: Wako Works of Art: 15 Years / Part IV, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
: XMAS HYSTERIA, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan
: Eyes Wide Open - New to the Stedelijk & The Monique Zajfen Collection, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2007: Kandors, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin
: Kandor Con 2000, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin
2006: Les artistes américains et le Louvre, La Louvre, Paris, France
2005: Galleri Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden
: Day is Done, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2004: Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2003: Mike Kelley: Memory Ware, Wood Grain, Carpet, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
: 'Drawings,' Metro Pictures, New York
: 'Capp Street Project: 20th Anniversary Exhibition,' CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
: 2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
: Reversals, Recyclings, Completions, and Late Additions, Metro Pictures,
: Brazil Sod and Sodie Sock, Brazil
: Black Out, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, California
: Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum of Fine Art Los Angeles, CA
: 'Test Room Containing Multiple Stimuli Known to Elicit Curiosity and Manipulatory Responses' Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
: 'Mike Kelley' Selected Works 1982-1990,î Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
: 'Video Acts,' P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (cat.)
: 'The Object Sculpture,' Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England (cat.)
2002: 'Sonic Process,' Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2001: Memory Ware, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
: 'Aerodynamic Vertical to Horizontal Shift,' Sperone Jr., Rome
: 'Almost Warm & Fuzzy,' P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; Centre Cultural de la FundaciÛ ìla Caixaî, Barcelona (cat.)
: 'Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now,' Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
: 'American Art,' Galerie Rudolfinum, The Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic (cat.)
: 'Artists Take on Detroit,' The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2000: 'Unisex Love Nest,' Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
: 'Categorical Imperative and Morgue', Van Abbemuseum, Stedelijk, Eindhoven
: Moving Images, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig Braunschweig, Germany
: Six Americans, Starstedt Fine Arts New York, NY
: ...on the sublime..., Rooseum Malmo, Sweden
: Mike Kelley: Framed and Framed, Test Room, Sublevel, MAGASIN: Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
: Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
1999: Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Drawn by..., Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Patrick Painter Incorporated Santa Monica, CA
1998: Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979 (exh.cat.), Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
: Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
: The Poetics Project (with Tony Oursler), Lehmann Maupin New York, NY
: Presumed Innocence, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA
: LA Times, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo Guarene, Italy
: Plaisir deplaisir, Musee d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux Bordeaux, France
: The Poetics Project: 1977-1997 (Barcelona version), Lehmann Maupin New York, NY
: The Poetics Project (Documenta Version) (collaboration with Tony Oursler), Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Sublevel, Jablonka Galerie Köln, Germany
: The Poetics Project: 1977-1997 (Barcelona version), Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Emotion, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
: Someone else with my fingerprints, David Zwirner New York, NY
: Display, The Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall Copenhagen, Denmark
: Center for Contemporary Art Malmo, Sweden
: Sunshine & Noir, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek, Denmark
: The Poetics Project (collaboration with Mike Kelley), Watari-um, the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
: :Engel: Engel, Kunsthalle Wien, Galerie Rudolfinum Prag (exh.cat)
: American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum Tokyo, Japan
: Gothic (exh. cat.), The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA
1997: Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile, Wako Works of Art Tokyo, Japan
: Laying Low: Postminimalism/Scatter Art (exh. cat.), Kunstnernes Hus Wergelandsveien, Oslo, Norway
: Educational Complex, Generali Foundation Vienna, Austria
: Making it Real (Organized by ICI), The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, CT
: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, The Netherlands
: Museu D'art Contemporani Barcelona, Spain
: The Poetics Project 1977-1997 (collaboration with Tony Oursler), Documenta X Kassel, Germany
: The Age of Modernism, Art in the 20th Century (CD-ROM), Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft Berlin, Germany
: Land-O-Lakes, Wako Works of Art, Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo, Japan
: Romper Room, Thread Waxing Space New York, NY
: Shift, Eine Austellung der Neuen Gesellscaft fur Bildende Berlin, Germany
: a/drift: Scenes From the Penetrable Culture, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: Is It Art, Katonah Museum of Art Katonah, NY
: Playpen & Corpus Delirium, Kunsthalle Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
: Family Values: American Art in the Eighties and Nineties, (exh. cat.), Hamburg Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
: L'Informe: le Modernisme a Rebours, Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
: Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life (exh. cat.), Sprial Garden Tokyo, Japan
: Controfigura, Studio Guenzani Milan, Italy
: Multiple Pleasure, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery New York, NY
: DISTEMPER: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s (exh. cat.), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C.
: L'Informe: le Modernisme a Rebours (exh. cat.), Centre Georges Pompidou National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
1996: Everything that's interesting is new: The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens School of Fine Arts,
: The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art, Galerie Im Haus 19, Galerie Andreas Binder Munich, Germany
: FeminiMasculin: Le Sexe de l'Art?, Musee National d'Art Moderne Paris, France
: XL, Galerie Borgmann Capitain Cologne, Germany
: It's Only Rock and Roll, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, OH
: do it, Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Scotland
: Passions Privées, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris, France
: Retinal Circus, Copenhagen Artshows Cophenhagen, Denmark
: On Beauty, curated by Dan Cameron, , Regina Gallery Moscow, Russia
: Komix, Brooke Alexander Editions New York, NY
: Playtime: Artists and Toys (exh. cat.), Whitney Museum of American Art Champion, Stamford, CT
: Abstract Photographs, The Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD
: ARS 95 Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland
: Paul McCarthy/Mike Kelley, Hamburg Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
: In a Different Light, University Art Museum Berkeley, CA
: Toward a Utopian Arts Complex, Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Missing Time: Works on Paper 1974-1976 Reconsidered, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, Germany
: Zeichen & Wunder, Kunsthaus Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
1995: The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter) (exh. cat), Galerie Jablonka Cologne, Germany
: Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: Temporary Translation(s): Sammlung Schurmann (exh.cat.), Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
: Oh Boy, It's a Girl: Feminismen in der Kunst (exh.cat.), Kunstverein Munich Munich, Germany
: Hors Limites - L'Art et La Vie, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France
: It's a Tough World Out There: Drawings by Mike Kelley, Joyce Pensato and Raymond Pettiborne, Saint Louis Art Museum Saint Louis, MO
: DasAmericas (exh.cat.), Isabella Prata Consultoria de Arte São Paulo, Brazil
: Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, ICI, New York, NY
: Cloaca Maxima, Museum der Stadtentwasserung Zurich, Switzerland
: Arrested Childhood (exh.cat.), Center of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL
: Drawing: Reaffirming the Media, University of Missouri Missouri
: World Morality in High Art, Kunsthalle Basel Basel, Switzerland
: (Cut)-Los Angeles-90s Art Scene (exh.cat.), Kunstforeningen Denmark
1994: Radical Scavenger(s): The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art (exh. cat.), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
: Spielverderber, Forum Stadtpark Graz Graz, Austria
: The Uncanny, organized by Mike Kelley for Sonsbeek '93, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, The Netherlands
: Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
: Tables: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Collection, Lannan Foundation Los Angeles, CA
: The Language of Art, Kunsthalle Wien Vienna, Austria
: Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler: Installation-Video, Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneva, Switzerland
1993: Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
: Kustom Kulture, Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach, CA
: American Art of this Century, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, Germany
: 1993 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
: The Haus der Kunst Munich, Germany
: Abject Art, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
: Re: Framing Cartoons, Wexner Art Center, Ohio State University Columbus, OH
: Désordres, Galerie Nationale Du Jeu de Paume Paris, France
: LAX (exh.cat.), Paul McCarthy, Galerie Krinzinger Vienna, Austria
: Not For Sale, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Israel
: Basel Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
: Alma Pater, Portikus Frankfurt, Germany
: Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: Beat of the Traps, Stephen Prina an, Gingi Auditorium, Wiener Festwochen Los Angeles, Vienna
: Dirty Data, Schürmann Sammlung Aachen, Germany
: Musée d'art contemporain Bordeaux, France
: American Art of the Eighties (exh.cat.), Museo d' Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento Trento, Italy
: Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art, Hayward Gallery London, England
: Ars Pro Domo, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany
: , Metro Pictures New York, NY
1992: Institute of Contemporary Art London, The United Kingdom
: Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Songs of Innocence/Songs of Experience, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
: Recent Narrative Sculpture, Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, WI
: Helter Skelter, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
: Knowledge: Aspects of Contemporary Art, University Art Museum Santa Barbara, CA
: Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
: Post Human, Musée d'Art Contemporain Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland
: Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
: Mike Kelley: Half a Man, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Washington, D.C.
: Anni Novanta, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy
: Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, ICA Philadelphia, PA
: Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, Germany
: Body/Language, Lannan Foundation Los Angeles, CA
: The Kelly Family, Galerie Esther Schipper Cologne, Germany
: Individual Realities, Sezon Museum of Art Tokyo, Japan
: 1991 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
: Savage Garden, Fundacion Caja de Pensiones Madrid, Spain
: Carroll Dunham, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, Metro Pictures New York, NY
: California Artists: William T. Wiley, Mike Kelley, Brad Dunning, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, CT
: Lumpenprol, Galerie Peter Pakesch Vienna, Austria
: Galerie Jablonka Cologne, Germany
: Galeria Juana de Aizpuru Madrid, Spain
: 3 Blowhards and a Little Lady, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center Venice, CA
1991: Theory, Garbage, Stuffed Animals, Christ #2, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center Venice, CA
: Enclosure, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: Word as Image, Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, WI
: Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Le desenchatement du monde, Villa Arson Nice, France
: Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: Just Pathetic, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: Figuring the Body, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
: , Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot Paris, France
: Jessica Diamond, Mike Kelley, Interim Art London, England
: Drawings, Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Editionen, Galerie Gisela Capitain Cologne, Germany
: Lotte or the Transformation of the Object, Grazer Kunstverein Graz, Austria
1990: Viewpoints towards the 90s: Three Artists from Metro Pictures Part II, Seibu Contemporary Art Gallery Tokyo, Japan
: Mike Kelley, Tim Robbins and K.O.S., Meyer Vaisman, Jay Gorney Modern Art New York, NY
: Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
: Theory, Garbage, Stuffed Animals, Christ, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center Venice, CA
: Pansy Metal/Clovered Hoof, Anita Pace, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: What is Contemporary Art, Rooseum Malmo, Sweden
: The Images of American Pop Culture Today III, organized by U.S.S.O. Co., Ltd., La Foret Art Museum Tokyo, Japan
: A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
: 1989 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
: Galerie Peter Pakesch Vienna, Austria
: Robbin Lockett Gallery Chicago, IL
: Pansy Metal/Clovered Hoof, Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Why I Got Into Art: Vaseline Muses, Galerie Jablonka Cologne, Germany
1989: Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: Metro Pictures New York, NY
: The Renaissance Society (exh. cat.) University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Striking Distance, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
: CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago Chicago, IL
: Cultural Participation, a Group Material installation, DIA Art Foundation New York, NY
: Aperto '88, La Biennale di Venezia Venice, Italy
: Graz 88, Stadtmuseum Graz Graz, Austria
: Recent Drawings: George Condo, Mike Kelley, Ellen Phelan, Janis Provisor, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1988: The BiNational: Art of the Late 80's, Museum of Fine Arts and Institute of Contemporary Boston, MA
: Art Against AIDS, Pacific Design Center Los Angeles, CA
1987: Vintage Works: 1979-1986, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: Toyama Now '87, Museum of Modern Art Toyama, Japan
1986: The Peristaltic Airwaves, live radio performance, KPFK Los Angeles, CA
: Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile, Artists Space New York, NY
: Spectrum: Natural Settings, , The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Washington, D.C.
: Poetic Resemblance, Hallwalls Buffalo, NY
: Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
: Metro Pictures New York, NY
: Currents 7: Works in Action, Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, WI
: Monkey Island Part II (performed in symposium) Artificial Intelligence in the Art, #1 Brainworks, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Theatre Los Angeles, CA
: Art in the Anchorage, Creative Time, Inc. New York, NY
1985: Metro Pictures (with John Miller) New York, NY
: Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: 1985 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1984: The 5th Bienalle of Sydney-Private Symbol: Social Metaphor, , The Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Austrailia
: Godzilla on the Beach, Bruce and Norman, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center Venice, CA
: First Newport Biennial 1984: Los Angeles Today, Newport Harbor Art Museum Newport Beach, CA
: Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: Metro Pictures New York, NY
1983: Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: Hallwalls Buffalo, NY
: Confusion, L.A.C.E., Pilot 1 Theater Los Angeles, CA
: X-C, Tony Oursler, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center Venice, CA
: The First Show: Painting & Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940-1980, , Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
: 5 from LA, University of California San Diego, CA
: The Artist in Television (telesatellite conference of live interactive collaborative performance), Mike Smith, University of California Los Angeles, CA
: Metro Pictures New York, NY
1982: Confuson, University of California San Diego, CA
: Monkey Island, Beyond Baroque Venice, CA
1981: Mizuno Gallery Los Angeles, CA
: Contemporary Drawings, University Art Museum Santa Barbara, CA
: Beware of the Dog, Mudd Club New York, NY
: The Monitor and the Merrimac, Hallwalls Buffalo, NY
: Meditation on a Can of Vernors, L.A.C.E. Los Angeles, CA
: Metro Pictures New York, NY
: The Parasite Lily (performance), Public Spirit: Live Art L.A. Festival Los Angeles, CA
1980: Three Valleys, Foundation for Art Resources Los Angeles, CA
1979: The Monitor and the Merrimac (performance), Foundation for Art Resources Los Angeles, CA
: The Poltergeist, collaboration with David Askevold, Foundation for Art Resources Los Angeles, CA
: Sound, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, P.S.1 New York, NY
1978: Dream Lover (audio tape; The Poetics, C.L.O.S.E. Radio Art Series), Tony Oursler and, KPFK Los Angeles, CA
: Poetry in Motion (performance), Los Angeles County Exhibitions Los Angeles, CA
: Indianna, L.A.C.E. Los Angeles, CA
: My Space, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, CA
: A Big Question, California State University Los Angeles, CA

Public Collections

: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Walker Art Center, Cincinnatti, OH
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Baltimore Museum of Art
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
: Museum für Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Art Institute of Chicago

Literature

2006: Day is Done, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2004: Welchman, John C. (ed.) Mike Kelley: Minor Histories. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004.
2003: Welchman, John C. (ed.) Foul Perfection: Essays & Criticism. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003
: Diedrich Diederichsen, 'A Fanís Notes,' Artforum, January, pp. 33-4
: Edward Leffingwell, 'Mike Kelley at Metro Pictures,' Art in America, April, pp. 134
: 'Mike Kelley Talks to Dennis Cooper,' interview with Dennis Cooper, Artforum, April, pp 224-5, 255
: 'Obscured Visions,' introduction by Robert Storr, (interview), Artforum, March, pp. 114-9
: Christopher Knight, 'Dredging Up a Sense of Adolescent Place,' Los Angeles Times, May 17, pp. F26
2002: 'Mike Kelley' Memory Ware, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
2001: Parkett: Collaborations and Editions Since 1984, Parkett Publishers, New York, pp. 31
: Retorn Al PaÌs de les Meravelles [Almost Warm & Fuzzy], Cultural de la FundaciÛ ìla Caixaî, Barcelona Art Now, Burkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick ed., Taschen, Cologne, pp. 84-5
: American Art, Galerie Rudolfinum, The Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic American Visionaries, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, pp. 162
1999: Aupetitallot, Yves. Mike Kelley. MAGASIN - Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France, 1999. Essays by Mike Kelley and Laurence A. Rickels.
: Kelley, Mike. Mike Kelley. Phaidon Press Ltd, London, England, 1999. Essays by John C. Welchman, Isabelle Graw, Anthony Vidler and Mike Kelley.
: Grässlin, Karola. Mike Kelley – Two Projects. Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 1999. (Exh. cat.)
1997: Stals, José Lebrero, editor. Mike Kelley 1985-1996. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 1997. Essays by Timothy Martin, José Lebrero
1993: Sussman, Elizabeth. Mike Kelley: Catholic Tastes. Whitney Museum of American Art, and Harry M. Abrams Inc., New York, 1993. Essays by Richard Armstrong, Dennis Copper and Casey McKinney, Deidrich Diedrchsen, Jutta Keother, Martin Prinzhorn, Howard N. Fox, Colin Gardner, Kim Gordon, John G. Hanhardt, David Marsh, Timothy Martin, John Miller, Ralph Rugoff, Paul Schimmel, Howard Singerman. (Exh. cat.)

Mike Kelley

(American, 1954–2012)

Mike Kelley

Mike Kelley

Mike Kelley

Mike Kelley

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