Born in1954, Detroit, MI.
Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education:
1978 Master in Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
1976 BA in Fine Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Solo Exhibitions:
2011 Mike Kelley: Kandor 10/ Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #34,
Kandor 12/ Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #35, Gagosian
Gallery, Beverly Hills.
2010 The Maiden Voyage of Mike Kelley’s Moble Homestead, launched at the grounds of
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI.
Mike Kelley: Arenas, Skarstedt Gallery, New York.
2009 Mike Kelley: Day is Done Judson Church Dance, Judson Memorial Church, New York.
Mike Kelley: Horizontal Tracking Shots, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 24th Street.
2008 Mike Kelley: 1018 Art, New York.
Mike Kelley Educational Complex Onwards: 1995-2008, (curated by Anne Pontégnie),
Wiels, Brussels, Belgium.
2007 Mike Kelley: Hermaphrodite Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, London (Britannia Street).
Mike Kelley: Memory Ware Flats, Skarstedt Gallery, New York.
Mike Kelley: Kandors, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin.
2006 Mike Kelley: Vaseline Muses, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York.
Mike Kelley: Profounders vertes, musée du Louvre, Paris.
Mike Kelley: Historic works, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris.
2005 Mike Kelley, Me • di • um, St. Barthélemy, French West Indies.
Mike Kelley: Day is Done, Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea).
2004 Mike Kelley- The Uncanny, The Tate Liverpool, England. Traveled to: MUMOK,
Museum of Modern Art, Vienna.
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris.
2003 Mike Kelley: Memory Ware, Wood Grain, Carpet, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan.
Sod and Sodie Sock (w/Paul McCarthy), Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Institut
d’art contemporain, Lyon, France.
2002 Mike Kelley: The Poetry of Form: Part of an Ongoing Attempt to Develop an Auteur
Theory of Naming, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris.
Mike Kelley– Selected Works 1982-1990, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York.
Test Room Containing Multiple Stimuli Known to Elicit Curiosity and Manipulatory
Responses, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland.
Black Out, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA.
Mike Kelley: Reversals, Recyclings, Completions, and Late Additions, Metro Pictures,
New York.
2001 Aerodynamic Vertical to Horizontal Shift, Sperone Jr., Rome.
Memory Ware, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany.
2000 Consolation Prize: Mike Kelley and John Miller, Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy: Collaborative Works, Power Plant Contemporary Art
Gallery,Toronto.
Unisex Love Nest, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan.
Categorical Imperative and Morgue, Van Abbemuseum, Stedelijk, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands.
Group Exhibitons:
2010 Medium: Photography, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles.
Summer Shows, Gagosian Gallery, New York.
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, West of Rome Public Art presented at The Farley
Building, Los Angeles.
Crash: Homage to JG Ballard, Gagosian Gallery, London.
Martin Kippenberger + Mike Kelley, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.
Meet Me Inside, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
2009 A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, ScultureCenter, Long Island City, New York.
A Certain State of the World ? Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow.
Bijoux de Famille, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Mike Kelley/Terence Koh/Jeff Koons, Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger, Mike Kelley, Skarstedt Gallery, New York.
Regift, Swiss Institute, New York, New York.
2008 Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA (through 2009).
for what you are about to receive, Gagosian Gallery, Moscow.
Prefab, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York.
Painting Now and Forever, Part II, Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali
Gallery,New York.
Paul Thek in the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art, ZKM Museum of
Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Travel to: Sammlung Falckenberg Hamburg,Germany.
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, England.
Jedermann Collection – Set 5 from the Fotomuseum Winterthur Collection.
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich.
2008 Adotta un Disegno (Adopt a Drawing), Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome.
Travelled to: Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy.
Wako Works of Art: 15 Years / Part IV, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo.
California Video, The Getty Center, Los Angeles.
Slightly Unbalanced, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago.
Travelled to: Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia; Paul and
Lulu Hilliard University ArtMuseum, Lafayette, LA.
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art, New
York.
BCAM, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
Do Not Play with Dead Things, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Villa Arson,
Nice, France.
Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
Colateral 2: Quando a arte olha o cinema, SESC (Serviço Social do Comércio) Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Spain.
Eyes Wide Open, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Puppet Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
Travelled to: Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; The Contemporary Museum,
Honolulu, Hawaii; The Contemporary Arts. Museum, Houston, TX; Frye Art
Museum, Seattle, WA.
2007 Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York.
Pop Art Is…, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London.
Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 (curated by Kasper König & Brigitte Franzen).
Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York.
L.A. Desire ( curated by Wilhelm Schürmann), Galeri Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Quotidian (curated by Thomas Duncan), BUIA Gallery, New York.
Alone In the Jungle, Mandarin, Los Angeles.
Artists In & Out of Cologne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami.
2006 Into Me / Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.