Exhibition History | Mike Kelley Foundation For The Arts

Exhibition History | Mike Kelley Foundation For The Arts
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Exhibition History
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Performances, Readings, and Other Events
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This exhibition history was compiled by Eva Meyer-Hermann for
Mike Kelley
(New York: Delmonico Books/​Prestel
2013
) and has been revised and updated by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
1979
The Poltergeist: A Work between David Askevold and Mike Kelley
, Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, California,
1979
1981
Meditation on a Can of Vernors
, Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles California,
1981
1982
Monkey Island”
and
Confusion”
, Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1982
1983
Monkey Island
, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
1983
The Sublime
, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York,
1983
1984
The Sublime
, Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1984
The Sublime
, Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
1984
1985
Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1985
Plato’s Cave, Rothko’s Chapel, Lincoln’s Profile
, Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
1985
1986
Plato’s Cave, Rothko’s Chapel, Lincoln’s Profile
, Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1986
1987
Vintage Works:
1979
1986
two-artist exhibition with Chris Burden, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
1987
Half a Man
, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
1987
1988
Three Projects: Half a Man, From My Institution to Yours, Pay for Your Pleasure
, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,
1988
. (exh. cat.)
Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1988
1989
Why I Got Into Art: Vaseline Muses,
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany,
1989
Mike Kelley
, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany,
1989
. (exh. cat.)
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
1989
Pansy Metal/​Clovered Hoof
, Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1989
Pansy Metal/​Clovered Hoof
, Robin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, Illinois,
1989
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna, Austria,
1989
1990
Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1990
Jessica Diamond, Mike Kelley
, Interim Art, London, England
1990
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France,
1990
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
1990
1991
Half a Man
, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.,
1991
. (exh. cat.)
Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain,
1991
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany,
1991
Lumpenprole
, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna, Austria. Toured to Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium,
1991
1992
Alma Pater (Wolverine Den)
, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany. Toured to Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1992
Mike Kelley
, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Toured to Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, and
CAPC
Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France,
1992
. (exh. cat.)
The Riddle of the Sphinx” and
Pansy Metal/​ Clovered Hoof,”
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1992
Mike Kelley and John Boskovich
, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
1992
LAX
, with Paul McCarthy, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria,
1992
. (exh. cat.)
1993
Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler: White Trash et Phobic (Installation-Video)
, Centre de’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland. Toured to Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany,
1993
. (exh. cat.)
Catholic Tastes
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Toured to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, and Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany,
1993
. (exh. cat.)
1994
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
1994
13
New Untitled Black and White Photographs
, Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1994
1995
The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter)
, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany,
1995
. (exh. cat.)
Paul McCarthy/​Mike Kelley
, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany,
1995
Mike Kelley: Recent Work
, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan,
1995
Flags and Video Heidi
, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany,
1995
Mike Kelley: Politically Incorrect
, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France,
1995
Mike Kelley: Missing Time. Works on Paper
1974
76
, Reconsidered
, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany,
1995
. (exh. cat.)
Towards a Utopian Arts Complex
, Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1995
1996
Land O’Lakes
, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan,
1996
. (exh. cat.)
1997
Mike Kelley:
1985
1996
, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Toured to Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, and Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
1997
. (exh. cat.)
Plato’s Cave, Rothko’s Chapel, Lincoln’s Profile
, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan,
1997
The Poetics Project:
1977
1997
, Documenta version, with Tony Oursler, Documenta
10
, Kassel, Germany,
1997
. (exh. cat.)
The Poetics Project:
1977
1997
, Documenta version, with Tony Oursler, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan,
1997
. (exh. cat.)
The Poetics Project:
1977
1997
, Barcelona version, with Tony Oursler, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, California,
1997
1998
The Poetics Project:
1977
1997
, Barcelona version, with Tony Oursler, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, New York,
1998
The Poetics Project:
1977
1997
, Documenta version, with Tony Oursler, Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1998
Sublevel: Dim Recollection Illuminated by Multicolored Swamp Gas
, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany,
1998
Destroy All Monsters Archive
, with Jim Shaw and Carey Loren, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
1998
. (In conjunction with the group exhibition
I rip you, York rip me: honey, we’re going down in history
with Jim Shaw and Carey Loren.)
Strange Früt: Detroit Culture
, with Jim Shaw and Carey Loren, Centrum Beeldende Kunst/​ Villa Alkmaer, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
1998
. (In conjunction with the group exhibition
I rip you, York rip me: honey, we’re going down in history
with Jim Shaw and Carey Loren.)
Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy: Sod
Sodie Sock
, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria,
1998
. (exh. cat.)
1999
Odd Man Out,
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, California,
1999
Mike Kelley: Two Projects
, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany,
1999
. (exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley and Ed Ruscha: Photographs
, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, California,
1999
Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1999
Sublevel: Dim Recollection Illuminated by Multicolored Swamp Gas. Deoderized Central Mass with Satellites
, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany,
1999
. (exh. cat.)
Unisex Love Nest
, Steirischer Herbst
99
, Palais Attems, Graz, Austria,
1999
Framed and Frame, Test Room, Sublevel
, Le Magasin: Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France,
1999
. (exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley, Franz West
, OneTwoThree, Hôtel Empain, Brussels, Belgium. Travel to:
FRAC
Poitou-Charentes, Angouleme, France,
1999
. (exh. cat.)
2000
The Poetics Project:
1977
1997
, Documenta version, with Tony Oursler, Centre Georges Pompidu, Paris, France,
2000
Mike Kelley and John Miller: Consolation Prize
, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada,
2000
. (exh. cat.)
Unisex Love Nest
, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany,
2000
Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy: Collaborative Works
, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada,
2000
. (exh. cat.)
Sublevel, Framed and Frame, Test Room
, Migros Museum für Gegen­warskun­st, Zurich, Switzerland,
2000
. (exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley
, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy,
2000
Mike Kelley: Peter Fischli, David Weiss
, Sammlung Goetz and Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany,
2000
. (exh. cat.)
Categorical Imperative and Morgue
, Van Abbemuseum
Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
2000
Destroy All Monsters: Postmodern Multimedia and Musical Mutations (Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, and Cary Loren)
, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington,
2000
Mike Kelley: Paintings and Drawings from the Rowan Collection
, Christie’s, New York, New York,
2000
. (Brochure)
Memory Ware
, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France,
2000
2001
Memory Ware: Paintings and Sculptures
, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany,
2001
. (exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley
, Sperone Jr., Rome, Italy,
2001
2002
Test Room
, Galerie Art
Public, Geneva, Switzerland,
2002
Black Out
, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, California,
2002
The Poetry of Form: Part of an Ongoing Attempt to Develop an Auteur Theory of Naming
, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France,
2002
Reversals, Recyclings, Completions, and Late Editions
, Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
2002
2003
The Poetics Project:
1977
1997
, with Tony Oursler, Barbican Centre, London, England,
2003
Sod and Sodie Sock
(with Paul McCarthy), Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Institut d’art contemporain, Lyon, France,
2003
. (exh. cat.)
Memory Ware, Wood Grain, Carpet
, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy,
2003
. (exh. cat.)
2004
The Uncanny,
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England; as
Dan Unheimliche
, toured to Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria,
2004
. (exh. cat.)
Cultural Folk
, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France,
2004
2005
Day Is Done
, Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York,
2005
. (exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley:
1975
1994
Works
, Medium, St. Barthélemy, French West Indies,
2005
. (exh. cat.)
2006
Liquid Diet and Related Works
, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France,
2006
Prodondeurs Vertes
, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France,
2006
. (Exh. Brochure)
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, New York,
2006
2007
Hermaphrodite Drawings
, Gagosian Gallery, London, England,
2007
. (exh. cat.)
Memory Ware Flats
, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, New York,
2007
Kandors
, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany,
2007
. (exh. cat.)
Kandor-Con
2000
, Jablonka Galerie in cooperation with Harald Falckenberg at Halle
037
, Ackerstrasse
76
, Berlin, Germany,
2007
2008
Educational Complex Onwards,
1995
2008
, Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels, Belgium. Toured to Museion, Bolzano, Italy,
2008
. (exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley
, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany,
2008
. (exh. cat.)
2009
Mike Kelley: A Selection of Photo Editions
, Patrick Painter Editions, Santa Monica, California,
2009
Selections from Kandors
, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France,
2009
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery
, with Michael Smith, Sculpture Center, Long Island, New York. Toured to West of Rome, Los Angeles, California,
2009
Photographs: Sculptures
, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan,
2009
. (exh. cat.)
Horizontal Tracking Shots
, Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York,
2009
. (exh. cat.)
Hungry for Death
, Printed Matter, New York, New York. Toured to White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri, and venues in Oslo, London, Rome, Lausanne, Athens, and Paris,
2009
2010
Gerhard Richter, Mike Kelley: Gallery Show
, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan,
2010
Mike Kelley
, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, Germany,
2010
Arenas
, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, New York,
2010
. (exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley + Martin Kippenberger
, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain,
2010
The Maiden Voyage of Mike Kelley’s
Mobile Homestead,’
launched at the grounds of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan,
2010
2011
Kandor
10
/​Extracurricular Activity Projective Recon­struc­tion #
34
, Kandor
12
/ Extracur­ric­u­lar Activity Projective Recon­struc­tion #
35
, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California,
2011
Kandors
, Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany,
2011
. (exh. cat.)
Exploded Fortress of Solitude
, Gagosian Gallery, London, England,
2011
. (exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley and Rosemarie Trockel: Works from the Michael and Eleonore Stoffel Foundation
, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany,
2011
12
2011
Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters
PRISM
, Los Angeles, California,
2011
12
2011
2012
Mike Kelley: Themes and Variations from
35
Years
, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
2012
. (exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley:
1954
2012
, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York,
2012
A Tribute to Mike Kelley
, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
2012
. (exh. booklet.)
Mike Kelley
, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon,
2012
2013
Mike Kelley: Eternity is a Long Time
, HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy,
2013
. (exh. booklet.)
Mike Kelley,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France,
2013
An Homage to Mike Kelley
, MoMA
PS
, New York, New York,
2013
Mobile Homestead and Goin’ Home: Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead Videos and Documentation
, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan,
2013
2014
Mike Kelley
, The Geffen Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
2014
Mike Kelley: Reconstructed History
, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, New York,
2014
2015
Mike Kelley
, Hauser
Wirth, New York, New York,
2015
2016
Mike Kelley: Memory Ware
, Hauser
Wirth, New York, New York,
2016
. (exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley: Framed and Frame
, Hauser
Wirth, London, England,
2016
Mike Kelley: Kandors
VENUS
, New York, New York,
2016
Mike Kelley
, Neon Parc, Brunswick, Australia,
2016
Mike Kelley. Shaped Paintings
, Skarstedt, New York, New York,
2016
2017
Mike Kelley: Singles’ Mixer
, Luhring Augustine, New York, New York,
2017
Mike Kelley: Fortress of Solitude
NEON
/​Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece,
2017
Mike Kelley: Kandors
1999
2011
, Hauser
Wirth, Los Angeles, California,
2017
Michigan Stories: Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw
, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan,
2017
MIKE
KELLEY
THE
SECRET
, Edward Ressle Gallery, New York, New York,
2017
Extracur­ric­u­lar Activity Projective Recon­struc­tion #
(A Domestic Scene)
, Design Exchange, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Toronto, Canada,
2017
2018
Mike Kelley Day Is Done,
The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Mike Kelley: God’s Oasis
, Galerie Hauser
Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland.
Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead
, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland.
Mike Kelley,
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Calif.,
USA
2019
Mike Kelley: Timeless Painting,
Hauser
Wirth New York, New York, N.Y.,
USA
2022
Mike Kelley: Subharmonic Tangerine Abyss,
Hauser
Wirth Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Mike Kelley: Kandors,
Peder Lund Oslo, Norway.
2023
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit,
Bourse de commerce-Pinault collection, Paris, France. Toured to Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, and Tate Modern London, United Kingdom. Moderna museet Stockholm, Sweden. (exh. cat.)
2024
Mike Kelly: Singles’ Mixer,
The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, New York, N.Y.,
USA
Esprits de Paris,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
2025
Vice Anglais,
Hauser
Wirth London, London, United Kingdom.
Extracur­ric­u­lar Activity Projective Recon­struc­tions — Photographs,
Manual Arts, Los Angeles, Calif.,
USA
Group Exhibitions
Exhibitions were accompanied by catalogues unless otherwise noted.
1975
Multiple Statements
, The Detroit Artist’s Market, Detriot, Michigan,
1975
. (no exh. cat.)
1979
Sound
, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California. Toured to P.S.
Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York,
1979
1980
Jim Casebere, Michael
lier, Mike Kelley, Kathryn Mish, Tom Sansone, and Others
, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, New York,
1980
. (no exh. cat.)
By-Products: Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, Mitchell Syrop
, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California,
1980
. (no exh. cat.)
1981
Beware of the Dog: Work from Artists in the Cave Canem Book Project
, The Mudd Club, New York, New York,
1981
. (no exh. cat.)
Contemporary Drawings: In Search of an Image
, University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California,
1981
1982
From L.A.: Kiki Maclinnis, Michael Kelley, Mary Jones, Michael McMillen, Jeffrey Vallance
, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California,
1982
. (no exh. cat.)
1983
The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections,
1940
1980
, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
1983
Sunday in Fiji
, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California,
1983
. (no exh. cat.)
1984
The Fifth Biennale of Sydney — Private Symbol: Social Metaphor
, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia,
1984
First Newport Biennial: Los Angeles Today
, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California,
1984
Explorations
1983
84
, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California,
1984
. (exh. booklet.)
1985
1985
Whitney Biennial Exhibition
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
1985
Art in the Anchorage
, The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, New York, New York,
1985
. (artist’s book,
1986
Artificial Intelligence in the Arts: Nr.
Brainwork”
, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria,
1985
. (no exh. cat.)
, curated by Mike Kelley, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
1985
. (no exh. cat.)
Currents —
: Words in Action
, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
1985
1986
Headhunters
, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California,
1986
. (exh. brochure.)
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art,
1945
1986
, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
1986
Social Distortion
, curated by Mike Kelley, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (
LACE
), Los Angeles, California,
1986
. (no exh. cat.)
Spectrum: Natural Settings
, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
1986
. (exh. booklet.)
1987
Avant-Garde in the Eighties
, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California,
1987
CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s)
, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,
1987
. Toured to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California,
1988
L.A. Hot and Cool: The Eighties
, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1987
Saxon-Lee Gallery, with Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Los Angeles, California,
1987
. (no exh. cat.)
Toyama Now
87
, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan,
1987
Contemporary Diptychs: Divided Visions
, Whitney Museum of American Art at Fairfield County, Stamford, Connecticut,
1987
. (exh. brochure.)
1988
The
43
Biennale of Venice, Aperto
88
, Venice, Italy,
1988
The BiNational: American Art of the Late
80
’s/German Art of the Late
80
’s
, Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts,
1988
. Toured to Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany; and Würt­tem­ber­gis­ch­er Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Striking Distance
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
1988
. Toured to Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California; Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, California; University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California. (no exh. cat.)
Recent Drawings: George Condo, Mike Kelley, Ellen Phelan, Janis Provisor
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
1988
. (no exh. cat.)
Democracy: Cultural Participation
DIA
Art Foundation, New York, New York,
1988
. (no exh. cat.)
1989
1989
Whitney Biennial Exhibition
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
1989
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Rep­re­sen­ta­tion
, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
1989
Prospect
89
: Eine Inter­na­tionale Ausstellung aktueller Kunst
, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany,
1989
What Is Contemporary Art?
, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden,
1989
They See God
, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, New York; Metro Pictures, New York, New York,
1989
. (no exh. cat.)
1990
Editionen
, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany,
1990
. (artist’s book,
1990
Le désen­chante­ment du monde
, Villa Arson, Nice, France,
1990
Just Pathetic
, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
1990
Word as Image: American Art,
1960
1990
, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
1990
. Toured to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
Figuring the Body
, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts,
1990
. (no exh. cat.)
1991
1991
Whitney Biennial Exhibition
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
1991
The Carnegie International
1991
, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
1991
The Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties
, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Toured to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California,
1991
El jardín salvaje
(The Savage Garden), Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain,
1991
Lieux communs, figures singulières
, Musée d’art modern de la ville de Paris, Paris, France,
1991
Metropolis: International Art Exhibition, Berlin
1991
, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany,
1991
Individual Realities
, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Tsukashin Hall, Osaka, Japan,
1991
1992
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings
, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York,
1992
Désordres: Nan Goldin, Mike Kelley, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak, Tunga
, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France,
1992
Documenta
IX
, Kassel, Germany,
1992
Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art
, Hayward Gallery, London England,
1992
; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria,
1992
Expanded Art:
II
, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria,
1992
Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the
1990
, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
1992
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art
, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, California,
1992
. Toured to Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California, and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Post Human
, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/​Lausanne, Switzerland,
1992
. Toured to Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece; Deich­torhallen, Hamburg, Germany; and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
Songs of Innocence/​Songs of Experience
, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, New York,
1992
. (no exh. cat.)
1993
1993
Whitney Biennial Exhibition
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
1993
Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
1993
Sonseek
93
, Sonsbeek, Arnhem, The Netherlands,
1993
Kustom Kulture: Von Dutch, Ed
Big Daddy” Roth, Robert Williams
Others
, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California,
1993
. Toured to Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, and Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington.
The Return of The Cadavre Exquis
, The Drawing Center, New York, New York,
1993
The Language of Art
, Kunsthalle, Vienna Austria; Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany,
1993
. (no exh. cat.)
The Elegant, Irreverent and Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California
, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California,
1993
. (no exh. cat.)
Dolls in Contemporary Art: A Metaphor of Personal Identity
, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
1993
1994
Hors limites: L’art et la vie
1952
1994
, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France,
1994
Radical Scavenger(s): The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois,
1994
[Cut]-Los Angeles —
90
’s Art Scene
, Kun­st­forenin­gen, Copenhagen, Denmark,
1994
World Morality in High Art
, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland,
1994
. (no exh. cat.)
Arrested Childhood
, Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida,
1994
Zimmer in denen die Ziet nicht zahlt
, Museum fur Gegen­wart­skun­st, Basel, Switzerland,
1994
. (no exh. cat.)
Clouca Maxima
, Museum der Stad­tent­wasserung, Zurich, Switzerland,
1994
. (exh. booklet.)
It’s a Tough World Out There: Drawings by Mike Kelley, Joyce Pensato, and Raymond Pettibon
, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri,
1994
. (no exh. cat.)
Oh Boy, It’s a Girl: Feminismen in der Kunst
, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany,
1994
1995
1995
Whitney Biennial Exhibition
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
1995
Action/​Performance and the Photograph
, Turner/​Krull Galleries, Los Angeles, California,
1995
Zeichen
Wunder
, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporànea, Galego, Spain,
1995
Murder
, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, California,
1995
Everything That’s Interesting Is New
. Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; The Factory, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece,
1995
Passions Privées
, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France,
1995
. (no exh. cat.)
Playtime: Artists and Toys
, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut,
1995
Destroy All Monsters
, Bookbeat Gallery, Oak Park, Michigan,
1995
. (no exh. cat.)
1996
Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the
1990
, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
1996
Fémin­i­mas­culin: Le sexe de l’art
, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France,
1996
Thinking Print: Books To Billboards,
1980
95
, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York,
1996
L’informe: Le modernisme a rebours
, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France,
1996
Do it,
Hermann Gmein­er­strasse, Klagenfurt, Austria; Songlines, Paris, France; Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland; Zerynthia, Rome, Italy;
CCA
Glasgow, Scotland; Forde Espace d’art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; Reykjavik Municipal Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand; Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden; Institute of Modern Art, Queensland, New Zealand; Kunstverein Kreis Gutersloh, Gutersloh, Germany; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Australia,
1996
. (exh. booklet.)
A/​drift: Scenes from the Penetrable Culture
, Center For Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York,
1996
. (no exh. cat.)
Playpen and Corpus Delirium
, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland,
1996
Destroy All Monsters
, The Deep, Tokyo, Japan,
1996
. (no exh. cat.)
It’s Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art
, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida; Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California; Phoenix Art Museum, Pheonix, Arizona; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas,
1996
Family Values: American Art in the Eighties and Nineties
, Galerie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany,
1996
L’art au corps
, Musée de Marseilles, Marseilles, France,
1996
1997
Art at the End of the
20
th
Century
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
1997
Chambres d’Amis
, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent, Ghent, Belgium,
1997
Display: International Exhibition of Painting
, with Paul McCarthy, The Char­lot­ten­borg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark,
1997
Documenta X, with Tony Oursler, Kassel, Germany,
1997
Im Reich der Phantome: Fotografie des Unsichtbaren
, with David Askevold, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchenglad­bach, Germany,
1997
. Toured to Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria, and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Sunshine
Noir: Art in L.A.
1960
1997
, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark,
1997
. Toured to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; and
UCLA
at The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California.
Scene of the Crime
UCLA
at The Armand of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California,
1997
Home Sweet Home, Deich­torhallen, Hamburg, Germany,
1997
Educational Complex
, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria,
1997
Gothic
, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts,
1997
Laying Low: Postminimalist/​Scatter Art
, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway,
1997
Making It Real
, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; The Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Iceland; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Char­lottesville, Virginia,
1997
American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Trans­for­ma­tion
, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan,
1997
1998
Crossings
, Kunsthalle Vien, Vienna, Austria,
1998
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object,
1949
1979
, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
1998
. Toured to
MAK
, Vienna, Austria,
1998
; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Presumed Innocence,
Anderson Gallery, School of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia,
1998
. Troured to Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (
2000
).
Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art
, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden,
1998
Plaisir Deplaisir
, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France,
1998
. (no exh. cat.)
Voor het verdwinjt en daarna
, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, The Netherlands,
1998
. (no exh. cat.)
Isn’t it too early for the eighties yet?
, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden,
1998
. (no exh. cat.)
50
Especes d’Espaces
, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musées de Marseilles, Marseilles, France,
1998
American Playhouse: The Theatre of Self-Presentation
, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada,
1998
1999
The American Century: Art and Culture,
1950
2000
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
1999
. (no exh. cat.)
On the Sublime
, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden,
1999
. (no exh. cat.)
Zeitwenden, Ausblick
, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany,
1999
. Toured to Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien,
20
er
Haus k/haus-Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria.
Making It Real
, Independent Curator’s International, New York,
1999
. Toured to Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Char­lottesville, Virginia; Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. (no exh. cat.)
Zeitwenden
, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany,
1999
. Toured to Museum Moderner Kunst Siftung Ludwig Vien; Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria (
2000
).
Vergiss den Ball und speil’weiter: Das Bild des Kindes in zeitgenos­sis­ch­er Kunst und Wissenschaft
, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg Germany,
1999
2000
Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art
, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England,
2000
Let’s Entertain
, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
2000
. Toured to Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; as
Sons et lumières
, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; and Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
Made in California
, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California,
2000
Art in the
80
’s.
, P.S.
Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York,
2000
. (no exh. cat.)
American Photographs
, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan,
2000
. (no exh. cat.)
Almost Warm
Fuzzy
, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington,
2000
. (no exh. cat.)
Open Ends:
11
Exhibitions of Contemporary Art from
1960
to Now
, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York,
2000
. (no exh. cat.)
2001
Eye Infection
, curated by Mike Kelley and Jan Christiaan Braun, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
2001
Painting at the Edge of the World
, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
2001
Artists Take on Detroit: Projects for the Tricentennial
, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan,
2001
Uniform Order and Disorder
, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy,
2001
Biennale de Lyon, Art contemporain
, Musée d’ Art contemporain, Lyon, France,
2001
Play’s the Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art
, Art Gallery of the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York,
2001
. (no exh. cat.)
Art>Music (rock, pop, techno)
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia,
2001
. (no exh. cat.)
Beautiful Productions, art to play, art to wear, art to own: Col­lab­o­ra­tions with Parkett,
1984
to now
, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Whitechapel, London, England,
2001
2002
2002
Whitney Biennial Exhibition
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
2002
. (no exh. cat.)
Almost Warm
Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art
, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio,
2002
Sonic Process: A New Geography of South
, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France,
2002
. Toured to Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. (no exh. cat.)
The Object Sculpture
, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom,
2002
Laid Bare
, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway,
2002
Five by Five: Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art
, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, New York,
2002
. (no exh. cat.)
Garden of Violence
, Historical Museum of Murten, Switzerland,
2002
. (no exh. cat.)
2003
Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
2003
: C’est arrive demain
, with Paul McCarthy, Musé d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France,
2003
. (no exh. cat.)
The Not-So-Still-Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture
, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California,
2003
White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art
, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland,
2003
. Toured to International Center for Photography, New York.
Phantom of Desire: Visions of Masochism in Art
, Neue Galerie Graz; Stadtmuseum Graz; Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria,
2003
. (no exh. cat.)
Micropolitics: Art and Everyday Life (
2001
1968
, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Valenciana, Spain,
2003
False Innocence
, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain,
2003
Trésors Publics,
with Paul McCarthy, Musée d’ Art Moderne et d’ Art Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, Germany,
2003
. (no exh. cat.)
2004
100
Artists See God
, organized by Independent Curators International, New York, New York,
2004
. Toured to Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California. Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; and Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
100
Artists See Satan
, Grand Central Art Center, California State University, Fullerton, California,
2004
Site Santa Fe: Fifth International Biennial/​Disparities and Deformations. Our Grotesque
, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
2004
. (no exh. cat.)
Les Enfants Terrible: Il linguaggio dell’infanzia nell’Arte
1909
2004
, Museo Cantonale di Lugano, Lugano, Italy,
2004
Off the Record: Sound Arc
ARC
/ Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France,
2004
. (no exh. cat.)
2005
Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the Eighties
, Museum für Gegen­wart­skun­st, Basel, Switzerland,
2005
. (no exh. cat.)
Mixed-Up Childhood
, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand,
2005
. (no exh. cat.)
Translation
, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France,
2005
. (no exh. cat.)
At the Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
2005
. (no exh. cat.)
Cárcel de Amor / Prison of Love
, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Sofía
MNCARS
, Madrid,
2005
. (no exh. cat.)
Trials and Terrors
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois,
2005
. (no exh. cat.)
Chocolate Art
, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Imhoff-Stollwerck-Museum, Cologne Germany; Hatje Cantz, Cologne, Germany,
2005
Urban Cocktail
, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
2005
. (no exh. cat.)
2006
The
80
s: A Topology
, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal,
2006
. (no exh. cat.)
Im Anfang war das Wort
, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany,
2006
. Toured to Power Plant, Toronto, Canada.
L.A. Art Scene
, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France,
2006
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne
, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
2006
. Toured to Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida. (no exh. cat.)
Kunstraum Grässlin: Mike Kelley: Martin Kippenberger. Albert Oehlen
, Kunstraum Grässlin, St. Georgen, Germany,
2006
. (no exh. cat.)
Sculpture
, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California,
2006
. (no exh. cat.)
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking
, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York,
2006
. (no exh. cat.)
Into Me/​Out of Me
, P.S.
Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York,
2006
. Toured to
KW
Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin;
MACRO
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome.
Down by Law
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
2006
. (no exh. cat.)
BIACS
: Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville
, Fundacion
BIACS
, Seville, Spain,
2006
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images
, Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California,
2006
Photography, Film, Video: Constructing Realities
, The Pace Gallery, New York, New York,
2006
. (no exh. cat.)
Ego Mania: Just When I Think I’ve Understood…
, Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy,
2006
Kunst Aus Los Angeles der
60
er
bis
90
er
Jahre
, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany,
2006
2007
Skulpture Projekte Münster
07
, Münster, Germany,
2007
. (no exh. cat.)
Sympathy for the Devil
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois,
2007
. (no exh. cat.)
John Duncan
Extended Organ
, Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
2007
. (no exh. cat.)
Evidence of Movement (featuring Close Radio Podcast)
, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California,
2007
. (no exh. cat.)
A Theater Without Theater
, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain,
2007
. (no exh. cat.)
Multiplex: Directions in Art,
1970
to Now
, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York,
2007
. (no exh. cat.)
XMAS
HYSTERIA
, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy,
2007
. (no exh. cat.)
Evidence of Movement (featuring Close Radio Podcast)
, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California,
2007
. (no exh. cat.)
2008
Close-up: Proximity and defa­mil­iari­sa­tion in art, film, and photographie
, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland,
2008
Color Chart: Reinventing Color,
1950
to Today
, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York. Toured to Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England,
2008
. (no exh. cat.)
Life on Mars:
55
th
Carnegie International
, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
2008
. (no exh. cat.)
The Puppet Show
, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
2008
. Toured to Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; and Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington.
Translo­cal­mo­tion
th
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China,
2008
. (no exh. cat.)
Yokohama
2008
: International Triennial of Contemporary Art
, Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall, Yokohama, Japan,
2008
. (no exh. cat.)
La Invención de Lo Cotidiano (The Practice of Everyday Life)
, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico,
2008
Passioniert Provokativ Die Sammlung Stoffel
, Pinakothek der Modern, Munich, Germany,
2008
California Video
, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California,
2008
Eyes Wide Open
, Stedelijk Museum
CS
, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
2008
. (no exh. cat.)
2009
All Creatures Great and Small
, Zaçheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland,
2009
. (no exh. cat.)
Collection History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions
, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
2009
. (no exh. cat.)
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York,
2009
. (no exh. cat.)
Dance With Camera
, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
2009
. Toured to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
Pop Life: Art in a Material World
, Tate Modern, London, England,
2009
. Toured to hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; National Gallery of Canada, Musée des beaux arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada. (no exh. cat.)
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art
, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria,
2009
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery
, collaboration with Michael Smith. Sculpture Center, Long Island, New York,
2009
. Toured to West of Rome, Los Angeles, California. (no exh. cat.)
Sequence
: Painting and Sculpture in the François Pinault Collection
, Palazzo Grassi, Punta Della Dogana, Venice, Italy,
2009
. (no exh. cat.)
SONIC
YOUTH
etc.: Sensational Fix
LIFE
, Saint-Nazaire, France,
2009
. Toured to Museion, Bolzano, Italy; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden; and
CA
Centro de Arte Dos Mayo, Móstoles, Spain. (no exh. cat.)
Trahison
CAPC
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France,
2009
. (no exh. cat.)
Insiders: Experience, Practices, Know-how
, Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture
CAPC
Museé d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France,
2009
2010
10
000
Lives
, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea,
2010
. (no exh. cat.)
Imaginary Museum
, New Museum, New York, New York,
2010
. (no exh. cat.)
Ordinary Madness
, Carnegie Museum of Mart, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
2010
. (no exh. cat.)
Rewind:
1970
s to
1990
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois,
2010
. (no exh. cat.)
Move: Chore­o­graph­ing You
, Hayward Gallery, London, England,
2010
. Toured to Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany;
20
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany. (no exh. cat.)
The View from Here
, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California,
2010
. (no exh. cat.)
Dreamlands / Galerie
, Niveau
, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France,
2010
Fast Forward
: The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz
ZKM
Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany,
2010
2011
The Luminous Interval
, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain,
2011
. (no exh. cat.)
Museum der Wünsche/​Museum of Desires: Jeff Wall, Louise Lawler, Mike Kelley, Isa Genzken, Franz West, Stephen Prina
, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria,
2011
Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters,
1973
1977
, Prism Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
2011
. (no exh. cat.)
The Spectacular of Vernacular
, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
2011
. Toured to Contemporary Arts Museum, Montclair, New Jersey; and Auckland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art
1974
1981
, The Geffen Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
2011
2012
2012
Whitney Biennial Exhibition
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
2012
L’Institut des archives sauvages
, Villa Arson, Nice, France,
2012
. Toured to Galerie Cour Carée, Paris. (no exh. cat.
This Will Have Been: Art, Love,
Politics in the
1980
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
2012
. Toured to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
A Tribute to Mike Kelley
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
2012
. (no exh. cat.)
Power to the Imagination – Artists, Posters and Politics
, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany,
2012
Let the Healing Begin
, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia,
2012
. (no exh. cat.)
2013
New Impressions of Raymond Roussel
, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France,
2013
. (no exh. cat.)
Destruction to Utopia
, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, California,
2013
. (no exh. cat.)
NYC
1993
: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
, New Museum, New York, New York,
2013
Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama – Manhattan
1970
1982
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
2013
. (no exh. cat.)
Yebisu International Festival for Art
Alternative Visions, Public ⇆ Diary
, Ed. Okamura, Keiko et al. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
Yebisu, Japan,
2013
2014
Titans of the Stratosphere
, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, California,
2014
. (no exh. cat.)
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology
, The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California,
2014
Comic Future
, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio,
2014
. (no exh. cat.)
Dark Pop
, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany,
2014
. (no exh. cat.)
Another Look at Detroit (Part I and
II
, Marianne Boesky Gallery and Marlborough, New York, New York,
2014
. (no exh. cat.)
Bas Jan Ader, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Mike Kelley
, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, California,
2014
. (no exh. cat.)
No Problem: Cologne/​New York
1984
1989
, David Zwirner, New York, New York,
2014
2015
My House: Mike Kelley and Ryan Trecartin
, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
Flying over the Abyss
, Contemporary Art Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece,
2015
. (exh. leaflet.)
Avatar and Atavism – Outside the Avant
-G
arde
, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany,
2015
Random Sampling – Painting from the Goetz Collection
, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany,
2015
. (exh. booklet.)
A Blind Man in His Garden
, Luma Westbau, Pool, Zurich, Switzerland,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
America Is Hard to See
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
COOL
/ As a State of Mind
, Centre d’art de la Cité Radieuse,
MAMO
– Marseille Modulor, Marseilles, France,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art from
1960
to the Present
, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island,
2015
Spray, Memory
, Inigo Philbrick, London, England,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler
, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art from
1960
to the Present
, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York,
2015
ARS
’tronomy
, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
Can You Hear Me?
, Onomatopee@Designhuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
ALFRED
JARRY
ARCHIPELAGO
LA
VALSE
DES
PANTINS
ACTE
II
, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne
, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
Black and White Mike
, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
20
Dancers for the XXth Century
, Paris Opera, Paris, France,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
Your smarter than me. i don’t care
, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
My House: Mike Kelley and Ryan Trecartin
, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
The Storyteller
, Lune Rouge, Ibiza, Spain,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
Thirty Nine Years: Anniversary Exhibition Honoring the Memory of Susanne Feld Hilberry
, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
20
Dancers for the XXth Century
, Tate Modern, London, England,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne
, Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
Art Basel
, Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland,
2015
. (no exh. cat.)
2016
The Power and the Glory
, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium,
2016
. (no exh. cat.)
Nightfall
, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland,
2016
. (no exh. cat.)
The Campaign for Art: Drawings, Part
II
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California,
2016
The Campaign for Art: California and the West
, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California,
2016
The Campaign for Art: Contemporary
, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California,
2016
Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups,
Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
2016
. (no exh. cat.)
from Generation to Generation
, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California,
2016
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
2016
. Toured to the Musée national d’art modern, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Sculpture from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California,
2016
. (no exh. cat.)
Condo, Gonzalez-Torres, Kelley, Prince, Salle, Sherman, Trockel, Wool
, Skarstedt, New York, New York,
2016
. (no exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead: Little Library Originals
MOCAD
– Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan,
2016
. (no exh. cat.)
Hauser Wirth
Schimmel
, Hauser
Wirth Schimmel, Los Angeles, California,
2016
. (no exh. cat.)
Public Service
, g
39
, Cardiff, England,
2016
. (no exh. cat.)
[sic] works from the
CAPC
Collection
CAPC
musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France,
2016
. (no exh. cat.)
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne
, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York,
2016
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne
,The Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis
Clark College, Portland, Oregon,
2016
. (no exh. cat.)
Art Basel, Miami Beach
, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Florida,
2016
. (no exh. cat.)
2017
Social Surfaces: A Fundraising Exhibition to Support Artists Space’s Relocation to
80
White Street in
2018
, Bortolami, New York, New York,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
MEDUSA
: Jewellery and Taboos
, The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
PROVOCATEUR
: From Picabia to Prince
, Edward Ressle Gallery, New York, New York,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin
, The Jewish Museum, New York, New York,
2017
Screen Memory
, Simon Lee Gallery, London, England,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
What I Loved; Selected works from the
90
’s
, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
Heidi, Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
1992
, Deitch Projects,New York, New York,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
The Ontology of the Gift
DHC
ART
Foundation for Contemporary Art Montréal, Montréal, Canada,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
ANOTHER
MAN
’S
TREASURE
, Edward Ressle Gallery, New York, New York,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
White Trash
, Luhring Augustine, New York, New York,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
Unobstructed Views
, W. Hawkins Ferry House, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, Washington,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
Process and Reality Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection Celebrating
25
Years of Acquisitions
, Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
Three Dimensions: Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Relief and Sculpture
, Acquavella Galleries, New York, New York,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
PERFORMANCE
, Le Tripostal, Lille, France,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
On Half a Tank of Gas
SI
Offsite, New Glarus, Wisconsin,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
Mike Kelley: Day Is Done
, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington,
2017
. (no exh. cat.)
2018
Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists’ Visions
, The Getty Villa, Los Angles, California,
2018
. (no exh. cat.)
Performances, Readings, and Other Events
1978
A Big Question.” The Exploratorium, California State University, Los Angeles,
1978
. Part of the performance series
Airwaves and Stars.”
Indianana.” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California,
1978
Poetry in Motion.” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California,
1978
. Part of
An Evening of Performance, Audio Tape, and Film.”
My Space,
1979
Two Pieces of Tube Music,”
A Big Questions (Chocolate Kiss),”
A Race Memory Story,” and
A Healthful Activity.” La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California,
1978
Dream Lover.” C.L.O.S.E. Radio Art Series,
KPFK
, Los Angeles, California,
1978
. Audio tape by The Poetics (Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, Don Krieger).
1979
The Monitor and the Merrimac.” Performance at Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, California,
1979
. In conjunction with a collaborative exhibition with David Askevold.
The Poltergeist.” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
1979
. In conjunction with the exhibition
Sound
. (exh. cat.)
1980
Three Valleys.” Performance at a private space. Sponsored by Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, California,
1980
The Parasite Lilly.” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles,
1980
. Part of the performance festival Public Spirit: Live Art L.A., presented in association with the Highland Art Agents; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; University of California, Sand Diego; The Kitchen Center for Video, Music, and Dance, New York, New York; and Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
1981
The Monitor and the Merrimac.” Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York,
1981
Meditation of a Can of Vernors.” Performance at a private space. Sponsored by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California,
1981
1982
Confusion: A Play in Seven Sets, Each Set More Spectacular and Elaborate Than the Last.” Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego; and Film in the Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
1982
The Artist in Television.: Live interactive performance with Michael Smith. Telesatellite Conference, University of California, Los Angeles,
1982
1983
Confusion: A Play in Seven Sets, Each Set More Spectacular and Elaborate Then the Last.” Pilot
Theater, Los Angeles, California,
1983
Monkey Island.” Beyond Baroque Literary/​Art Center, Venice, California,
1983
X‑C.” Performance in collaboration with Tony Oursler. Beyond Baroque Literary/​Arts Center, Venice, California,
1983
Ericka Beckman/​Mike Kelley.” Reading and video presentation. Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York,
1983
1984
The Sublime.” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in association with California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California,
1984
. Part of the performance series
Explorations.”
Godzilla on the Beach.” Performance in collaboration with Bruce and Norman Yonemoto. Beyond Baroque Literary/​Arts Center, Venice, California,
1984
Reading. Anti Club, Los Angeles, California,
1984
Performance with Idiot Bliss. Beyond Baroque, Old Venice City Hall, Venice,
1984
1985
Bob Flanagan and Mike Kelley.” Reading. The Permanent Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
1985
Get It in Writing: An Evening of Readings by Dennis Cooper, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Benjamin Weissman.: Artists Space, New York, New York,
1985
Monkey Island Part Two.” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Theater, Los Angeles, California,
1985
Artificial Intelligence in the Arts, #
Brainwork.” Symposium. Los Angeles Municiple Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California; and Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria,
1985
. In conjunction with the exhibition
Los Angeles Summer/​Styrian Autumn.
1986
Plato’s Cave, Rothko’s Chapel, Lincoln’s Profile.” Performance with Molly Cleator and Sonic Youth. Artists Space, New York, New York,
1986
The Peristaltic Airwaves.”
KPFK
, Los Angeles, California,
1986
. Live radio performance. Co-produced by High Performance Magazine
KPFK
radio station.
1987
Reading. Benefit for Foundation For Art Resources, Lhasa Club, Los Angeles, California,
1987
1989
Theory, Garbage, Stuffed Animals, Christ,” Beyond Baroque Literary/​Arts Center, Venice, California,
1989
Pansy Metal/​Clovered Hoof.” Dance presentation of silk-scarf series in collaboration with Anita Pace. Private space, Los Angeles, California,
1989
. Sponsored by Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1991
Theory, Garbage, Stuffed Animals, Christ #
.” Beyond Baroque Literary/​Arts Center, Venice, California,
1991
1992
Beat of the Traps.” Collaboration with Anita Pace and Stephen Prina.
Expanded Art
, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria; and Gindi Auditorium, Los Angeles, California,
1992
. Exh. cat.
Far Fetched.” Music performance. Foundation for Art Resources, Sokol Hall, Los Angeles,
1992
1993
100
Reasons — Spank O Rama.” Performance in collaboration with Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose. The Lab, San Francisco, California,
1993
1996
Sad and Sadie Sack
USO
Party.” Performance in collaboration with Paul McCarthy and Violent Onsen Geisha. P‑House Gallery, Tokyo, Japan,
1996
Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley.” Music performance. Stratos Sel­skaplokaler, Olslo RockFestival, Norway,
1996
Jean Baudrillard with the Chance Band.” Music performance. Whiskey Pete’s Casino and Hotel, Stateline, Nevada,
1996
1998
The Thin Monotonous Piping of an Accursed Flute.” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California,
1998
. In conjunction with the exhibitions
Beyond the Pink
. Sponsored by the Cortical Foundation.
Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, violent Onsen Geisha.” Sound performance. Secession, Vienna, Austria,
1998
2000
A Haute Voix.” Espace Franquin, Angouleme, France,
2000
. Theatre performance in conjunction with the exhibition “>Mike Kelley2002
Destroy All Monsters performance. Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles,
2002
. In conjunction with
All Tomorrow’s Parties” music festival (curated by Sonic Youth).
2004
Extended Organ performance (with Paul McCarthy and Dave Muller). Private space, Los Angeles, California,
2004
Get Off the Grass
Blast” benefit for the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and South (
SASSAS
).
Destroy All Monsters performance. Pontins, Camber Sands, East Sussex, United Kingdom,
2004
. In conjunction with
All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Nightmare Before Christmas” music festival (curated by Jake and Dinos Chapman).
Borderline Extra
254
.” Hosted by Dirk Liese, Freies Radio Kassel.
Feb
2004
. Selected Compound Annex titles.
Mike Kelley Selects:
Sod
Sodie Sock (Vienna cut),’
Bridge Visitor (Legend Trip)’ and
Extracur­ric­u­lar Activity Projective Recon­struc­tion #
(A Domestic Scene)’.” New York Video Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, New York,
2004
2005
Mike Kelley and John Welchman: Contemporary Art in Conversation.” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
2005
Performance. Private space. Los Angeles, California,
2005
Get Off the Grass
Blast
.” Benefit for the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (
SASSAS
).
Radio Daniele” (sound art projects radio program), Bologna, Italy; Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland,
2005
Radiodays.” Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
2005
. Sound works broadcast airing The Poetics,
Nothing from Nothing.”
2006
Reading with John C. Welchman. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
2006
Works in Progress: Mike Kelley.” Lecture with discussant Branden W. Joseph. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California,
2006
Performance. Private space, Los Angeles, California,
2006
. Benefit for the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (
SASSAS
).
2007
A Conversation with Mike Kelley,” with Michael Kimmelman. The American Academy in Berlin, Germany,
2007
. In cooperation with Jablonka Galerie, Berlin.
2008
Performance with Masaya Nakahara Hair Stylistics and Paul McCarthy. The Echo, Los Angeles, California,
2008
Performance. Private space, Brentwood, California,
2008
Black!
, Sasster Blaster” benefit for the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (
SASSAS
).
Presentation and Book Signing for
Sex to Sexty: The Most Vulgar Magazine Ever Made
with Dian Hansen. Taschen store, Beverly Hills, California,
2008
Close Radio #
27
.” Originally broadcast on
KPFK
between
1976
and
1979
. Podcast made available in conjunction with the exhibition
Evidence of Movement,” Getty Reasearch Institute Galleries, Getty Center, Los Angeles, California,
2008
2009
Extracur­ric­u­lar Activity Projective Recon­struc­tion #
33
, Plus.” Judson Memorial Church, New York, New York,
2009
. Part of
Performa
09
.”
At a Gong,” solo performance; as Destroy All Monsters with Cary Loren and Jim Shaw; and as Extended Organ with Paul McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, and Joe Potts;
A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music,” all Gramercy Theater, New York, New York,
2009
Performance with Raymond Pettibon. Private residence, Los Angeles, California,
2009
. Benefit for
SASSAS
Close Radio #
27
.” On the occasion of a film program curated by Paul McCarthy. Film
Video Gallery, Whitney Museum, New York, New York,
2009
2010
Mobile Homestead.” Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan,
2010
. On the occasion of the maiden voyage of
Mobile Homestead
, sculpture christening, community spirit event, and opening remarks by John Sinclair and others.
2011
Extended Organ performance. Los Angeles Free Music Society, Sunday Nights at the Getty, Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center, Los Angeles,
2011
. Part of
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A.
1945
1980