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Born Detroit,
1954; lives and works in Los Angeles
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Education
1976–78
M.F.A., California Institute of Arts,
Valencia
1972–76
B.F.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1975
Forms artists' collective Poetics with
Tony Oursler and Don Krieger
1974
Forms artists' collective and band Destroy
All Monsters with Jim Shaw, Carey Loren,
and Niagara
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Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
1998
"Strange Früt: Detroit Culture,"
Centrum Beeldende Kunst/Villa Alkmaer,
Rotterdam
"Destroy
All Monsters Archive," Museum Boijmans
Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1997
"The Poetics Project: 1977–1997 (Documenta
version)," The Watari Museum of Contemporary
Art, Tokyo; catalogue
"Mike Kelley:
1985–1996," Museu d’Art Contemporani
de Barcelona; Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden;
and Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven,
The Netherlands; catalogue
1996
"Land O’ Lakes," Wako Works of Art,
Tokyo; catalogue
1995
"Toward
a Utopian Arts Complex," Metro Pictures,
New York
"Mike Kelley:
Recent Work," Susanne Hilberry Gallery,
Birmingham, Michigan
"The Thirteen
Seasons (Heavy on the Winter)," Jablonka
Galerie, Cologne; catalogue
1993
"Mike Kelley: Catholic Tastes," Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York; Los
Angeles Museum of Art; and Haus der Kunst,
Munich; catalogue
1992
"The Riddle of the Sphinx" and "Pansy
Metal/Clovered Hoof," Fabric Workshop,
Philadelphia
"Mike Kelley,"
Kunsthalle, Basel; Institute of Contemporary
Art, London; and CAPC Musée d’art
contemporain, Bordeaux, France; catalogue
1991
"Mike Kelley: Half a Man," Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington D.C.; catalogue
"Lumpenrole,"
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna; Museum
van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
1990
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Metro Pictures,
New York
1989
"Mike Kelley," Jablonka Galerie, Cologne;
catalogue
"Pansy Metal/Clovered
Hoof," Metro Pictures, New York
1985
"Plato’s Cave, Rothko’s Chapel,
Lincoln’s Profile," Rosamund Felsen
Gallery, Los Angeles; Artists Space and
Metro Pictures, New York; published as
artist’s book, New City Editions,
Venice, California
1984
Performance "The Sublime," Museum of Contemporary
Arts, Los Angeles; Metro Pictures, New
York; and Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los
Angeles
1982–1983
"Monkey Island/Confusion," Metro Pictures,
New York, 1982; performance, Beyond Baroque
Literary/Arts Center, Venice, California,
1983; Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1981
"Meditation on a Can of Vernors," Riko
Muzuno Gallery, Los Angeles; performance,
Los Angeles
1979
"The Poltergeist: A Work between David
Askevold and Mike Kelley," Foundation
for Art Resources, Los Angeles
Group
Exhibitions
1997
"Documenta X," Kassel, Germany; catalogue
"Art at the
End of the 20th Century," Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York; catalogue
1996
"Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art
of the 1990s," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
D.C.; catalogue
1985, 1989,
1991, 1993, 1995
"Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York; catalogues
1994
"Hors limites: L’art est la vie,"
Centre national d’art et de culture
Georges Pompidou, Paris; catalogue
1992
"Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current
Art," Haywood Gallery, London; and Kunsthalle,
Vienna; catalogue
"Post Human,"
FAE Musée d’art contemporain,
Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland; Castello
di Rivoli, Turin; Deste Foundation, Athens;
Edelman, Lausanne; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg;
and Israel Museum, Jerusalem; catalogue
"Désordres:
Nan Goldin, Mike Kelley, Kiki Smith, Jana
Sterbak, Tunga," Galerie Nationale du
Jeu de Paume, Paris; catalogue
"LAX," Galerie
Krinzinger, Vienna; catalogue
1991
"Metropolis: International Art Exhibition,
Berlin 1991," Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin;
catalogue
"Lieux communs,
figures singulières," Musée
d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris;
catalogue
1990
"Le désenchantement du monde,"
Villa Arson, Nice; catalogue
"Just Pathetic,"
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles;
catalogue
1988
"The
43rd Biennale of Venice, Aperto ’88,"
Venice; catalogue
1987
"Avant-Garde in the Eighties," Los Angeles
County Museum of Art; catalogue
1984
"Fifth Biennale of Sydney—Private
Symbol: Social Metaphor," The Gallery
of New South Wales, Sydney; catalogue
1980
"The Parasite Lilly," Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions, California Institute of Arts,
Valencia; University of California, San
Diego; The Kitchen, New York; and Slusser
Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Selected References
1996
Rosalind Krauss, "Inform without Conclusion,"
October 78 (fall): 86–105
1995
Michael Kimmelman, "Mike Kelley," The
New York Times, November 24
1994
Michael Duncan, "Kelley’s Junk Shop
Pop," Art in America 82, no. 6:
84–89
1993
Nancy Princethal, "Mike Kelley at Metro
Pictures," Art in America, April:
127
Roberta Smith,
"Mike Kelley’s Messages: Mixed and
Mystical," The New York Times,
November 5
1992
Alain-Henri
François, "Lieux communs, figures
singulières banal," Voir
(February): 16f
1991
Michael Kimmelman, "Mike Kelley’s
Toys Play Nasty Games," The New York
Times, April 7
1988
Eleanor Heartney, "Mike Kelley, Metro
Pictures," Artnews 87, no. 9 (November):
174–75
1987
Holland Cotter, "Eight Artists Interviewed,"
Art in America 75, no. 5: 162–97
1986
Dan Cameron, "Mike Kelley’s Art of
Violation," Arts Magazine (June):
4–17
1979
Richard Armstrong, "Mike Kelley," Artforum
(November): 75–78
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Selected Awards
1992
Distinguished Alumni Award, University
of Michigan School of Art and Design,
Ann Arbor
1991
Skowhegan Medal for mixed media
1990
Museum
Program Exhibition Grant for a retrospective
exhibition at ICA, Boston, National Endowment
for the Arts; grant rescinded by then-NEA
chairman John Frohnmeyer
1987
Award in the Visual Arts, North Carolina
1985
Fellowship, National Endowment for the
Visual Arts, Washington, D.C.
1984
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant,
New York
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Selected
Collections
Art Institute
of Chicago
Baltimore
Museum of Art
The Detroit
Institute of Arts
Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum
of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York
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