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Mike Kelley
(
American
, 1954–2012)
Mike Kelley
Untitled,
1999
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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
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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
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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.)
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