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Canadian Art

Martin Kersels

NOVEMBER 2007

Martin Kersels
Artist
Co-director, Program in Art
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
Los Angeles, United States

Martin Kersels visited Toronto for the fourth instalment of the Anne Lind International Program. Kersels is the co-director of the Program in Art at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and a Los Angeles–based artist who works in sculpture, audio, photography and performance. He has had solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Bern and Paris. His work has also been included in numerous group shows, such as “Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty,” “Young Americans 2” at the Saatchi Gallery and the 1997 Whitney Biennial. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Norton Family Collection.


 

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