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B. 1964 Hollywood, California 


EDUCATION 

1988
B.A., Music/Liberal Arts; California State University at Long Beach, CA 

1990

M.F.A., Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
Lightboxes, Adamski Galerie, Berlin
40 Steps, Gimpel Fils, London
Relay, West of Rome, Los Angeles, CA

2006
What goes up, what goes down
, Daniel Hug, Los Angeles
Howl, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
Jump Booth,
FIAC Paris with Galerie Catherine Bastide

2005
Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Two or Three Things I Know, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France

2002
House Proposal, lemon sky projects + editions, Los Angeles, CA
Rhetorical, the happy lion gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000
You Should've Been There, Catherine Bastide/123 ASBL, Brussels, Belgium

1999
Suggesting Islands, Stones, Water... Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1997
Mid Winter Drawings, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1995
High Points Drifter, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Sunset; Painting, Decoration and Western Living, Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA

1992
Executive Suite, Installation at the FAR Bazaar, Foundation for
Art Resources, Los Angeles, CA

1990
Recorded Material; M.F.A. show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
An Evening With Shelley Berman, W.C. Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
The Archie Bunker, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Collage Effect, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Back From The End Of The Earth, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
4 Artists, Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY

2005   
100 Artists See God, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia Beach, Virginia Beach, VA
Selected To Post It’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, March 2005.
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis,


2004   
Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Blaffer Art Gallery at the University of Houston: Houston, TX
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
100 Artists See God, The Jewish Museum San Francisco, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Paper, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Trespassing: Houses x Artists, MAK Center for Art and Architecture,
Los Angeles, CA 
Conversations, Selections from the Permanent Collection
MOCA, Los Angeles, CA 

2002
Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 
Startkapital, Kunstsammulung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 

2001
Superman, Collection Schurmann, Kunsthalle Dortmund, Germany 
LA, CA, The B Sides, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 
Stuffed, 1301 PE Los Angeles, CA 

2000
Made In Los Angeles, L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 
L.A.-ex, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany 
Wohin Kein Auge Reicht (More Than Meets The Eye)
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland 
Art/Journalism, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

1999
A Living Theater, Salzburg Kunstverien, Salzburg Austria (also responsible for exhibition design) 
Wohin Kein Auge Reicht (More Than Meets The Eye), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany 
Post Millennial Fizzy, California State University Los Angeles, 
Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA 
Happy Trails, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA 
Conceptual Art as Neurobiological Praxis
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY 
Titles for Drawings, AC Project Room, New York, NY 

1998
Global Tekno, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France 
Entropie zu Hause, Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany 
Zimmer See, Aachen Kunsthalle, Aachen, Germany 
Low, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 
Places That Are Elsewhere, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY 
Reverb, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA 

1997
Ten Los Angeles Artists, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
Yard Sale, Special K Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 
Muse X Editions Recent Publications, Shoshana Wayne Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA 

1996
Now Here: Work In Progress, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 
Humlebaek, Denmark 
True Bliss, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Hollywood, CA 
100 Photographs, American Fine Arts, Co., New York 
Where The Strange Things Are, as part of Jünge Szene, 
Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria 

1995
Domesticities: Angela Lim, T. Kelly Mason, Michael Peglau
Here Art, New York, NY 
Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, NY 

1994
Pure Beauty, American Center, Paris; MOCA, Los Angeles, CA 
Get Well Soon, Smashbox, Culver City; Thicket, New York, NY 
Utterings, Contemporary Drawings, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA 

1993
LAX Exhibition: About Place, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA 
Germinal Notations, Food House, Santa Monica, CA 
Tattoo Collection, L'Art dans la Peau, CRDC, Nantes 

1992
Very, Very, Very, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 
California Artists, Galerie Max Hetzler, Köln, Germany 
Drawings, Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA 
Tattoo Collection, Air de Paris, Nice, France; Urbi et Orbi, Paris, 
France; Bucholz and Schipper, Köln, Germany 

1991
The elegant, irreverent & obsessive: Drawing in Southern California;, California State University at Fullerton Visual Arts 
Center; Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 

1990
Group Show, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 
Group Show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 

1989
Group Show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 


MUSIC, PERFORMANCES, VIDEO SCREENINGS 


2006       
Jump, a16mm film produced in collaboration with Diana Thater,
screening at Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado

2005       
Jump, a16mm film produced in collaboration with Diana Thater,
premiere screening at David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Los Angeles Premiere, Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles
London Premiere, Tate Modern, September

2004       
Welcome to Taiji, documentary film. Segments shown on BBC 1, NBC Frontline

2000
The Future That Almost Wasn't, a collaboration with Diana Thater, Marstall Theatre, Munich, Germany 

1999
The Future That Almost Wasn't, a collaboration with Diana Thater, APLA S 

1998
The Future That Almost Wasn't, a collaboration with Diana Thater,
Art Pace, San Antonio, TX 
Sampler 2, as part of Sunshine and Noir. Art in Los Angeles 
1960-1997, UCLA at The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 

1997
Sampler 2, as part of Sunshine and Noir. Art in Los Angeles 
1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, 
Denmark; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany 

1996
Boil Family, A night of dance music and visuals, 
Blum and Poe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 
Sampler 2: More Videos from Southern California
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY 

1995
Video Screening, The Center for New Television, Chicago 
Soundtrack to Shilo, a Videotape by Diana Thater, 
screened as an MTV ART spot, May-June 
Music for Chill Out: an exhibition by Chris Wilder
Roger Merians Gallery, New York, NY 

1994
Excerpts from Hits... Near Misses... A crash... A movie...
Screened at: Ecomove 94, Conference on transportation, 
urban planning and the environment, Kassel, Germany 

1993
The Imp of the Perverse, by Edgar Allen Poe, Screened at: 
Friesenwall 120, Köln; Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin;; Futura Book Collection, Air de Paris, Nice, France 
RGB Ghosts in Claude Monet's Salon, and Excerpts from Hits... Near Misses... A crash... A movie..., Screened as part of Into the Lapse. Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, England; Friesenwall 
120. Köln, Germany; Dogenhaus, Leipzig, Germany; Société 
des Expositions, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany; The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 

1992
RGB Ghosts in Claude Monet's Salon, Screened as part of Into the Lapse. 1301 Gallery, Santa Monica; Far Bazaar, Los Angeles, CA 

1990
We're Making a Hippopotamus. A Performance, 
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 


AWARDS AND GRANTS

2004       
Gottlieb Foundation Grant

2003   
Fulbright residency for the Study of Architecture and Urban Planning in the Panama Canal Zone Region, administered by the Tulane University Latin American Studies Program

1994
1 year fellowship, Art Matters Inc.. 


PUBLIC WRITINGS / PROJECTS 

2003
Jahresring 50, Jahrbuch für moderne Kunst 

2002
Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 
Dollar Project, Another Magazine, Spring/Summer 2002 issue, 
Dazed and Confused Publishing 

1999
Notes on the Exhibition Design, A Living Theater, Salzburg Kunstverien, Salzburg, Austria 
Unpublished letter to the Los Angeles Times, in X-tra Vol. II 
issue 3 Spring 1999 

1998
Hollywood, America October 1998, in Paradex Vol. 1 Nov. 1998 
ed. by Sebastian Egenhofer, Kõln, Germany 

1997
The Future That Almost Wasn't, in Transcript Volume 2 issue 3
Dundee, Scotland 
Artist's Statement, in Now Here: Work In Progress, 
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark 

1996
Ideal Places, Investments, Indigestion, in L'endroit idéal 
(Ideal Place) ed. by Eric Troncy, L'ille du Roy, Centre d'art et 
Jardin, Val de Reuil., France, republished 1998 in Spring 
Journal, Vol. 1 ed. by Daniel Mendel Black, Los Angeles, CA 


BIBLIOGRAPHY 

CATALOGS

2006       
Iles, Chrissie and Vergne, Philippe, Whitney Bienniel 2006, Day For Night Catalog, Abrams

2002

Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Bellevue Art Museum ed, 
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern Germany 

2000
Häusler Krista and Schweeger, Elizabeth, eds., L.A.-ex 
Performances
, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern Germany 

1999
Amanshauser, Hildegund and Thater, Diana, A living theater, Salzburg Kunstverien, Salzburg, Austria Gundlach, F.C. and Schšrmann, Wilhelm, Wohin Kein Auge Reicht (More Than Meets The Eye), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

1998
Iles, Chrissie, The Future That Almost Wasn't, Art Pace/A 
Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX 

1996
Blazwick, Iwona, Now Here: Work In Progress, Louisiana 
Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark 
Karl, Brian, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 
True Bliss, Hollywood, CA 

1994
L';endroit idéal (Ideal Place), ed. by Eric Troncy, L';ille du Roy, 
Centre d';art et Jardin, Val de Reuil, France 
Leffingwell, Ed., LAX Exhibition:; About Place, Los Angeles 
Municipal Art Gallery Los Angeles, CA 

1993
Christensen, Torben, Into the Lapse, (exhibition catalog) 
The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 

1992
Ross, Adam, Drawings, (exhibition catalog) Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA 
McGee, Mike, The elegant, irreverent & obsessive:; Drawing in 
Southern California
, (Exhibition catalog), California State University at Fullerton Visual Arts Center, CA 


ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2006      
Berwick,Carly, Whitney Biennial 2006, Art News
Scheldahl, Peter, Critics Notebook, New Yorker Mar.20
Smith, Roberta, Critics Notebook, New York Times July 28
Oksenhorn, Stewart, Jump, Aspen Times, April 27

2005       
Griffis, Ryan, Jump, artUS, issue9 July/September

2003       
Tumlir, Jan, Trespassing: Houses x Artists, frieze.com

2002
Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Seattle Times

2000
Tumlir, Jan, T. Kelly Mason at Marc Foxx, Artext, February-April 2000 
Stamen, Silvia, Kein Rausch, The Future That Almost Wasn';t
Süddeutsche Zeiting, May 19 
Babnik, Erika, Amerikanischer(Alp-)Traum, Münchner Stadtmagazin, April 
Wiedemann, Christoph, Rauschen in der Satellitenschüssel, 
Chaos im Bett
, SZ Extra, April 13-19

1999
Rickels, Laurence A., Art/Journalism, X-tra Vol.II issue 4, Summer 1999 

1998
Isé, Claudine, Finding New Uses for Household Items
Los Angeles Times, April 11 
Spaid, Sue, Mid Winter Drawings, Art Papers, February 

1997
Darling, Michael, T. Kelly Mason, frieze, May 1997 
Kandel, Susan, Map Maker, Los Angeles Times, February 29 1996 

1996
Zellen, Jody, What is a Geographical Space?, Art Press, January 1996 
LaBelle, Charles, T. Kelly Mason, High Points Drifter, World Art, 
1st Quarter 1996 

1995
Miles, Christopher, T. Kelly Mason at Marc Foxx, Artweek, November 1995 
Kandel, Susan, Mason';s Strategy for Western Living
Los Angeles Times, August 18 

1994
Barden, Lane, In the Eye of the Beholder, Pure Beauty at MOCA, Artweek, November 17 
Pure Beauty:; Some Recent Work from Los Angeles
San Diego Update, September 28 
Donahue, Marlena, New definition of Pure Beauty
Santa Monica Daily Breeze, September 27 
Sullivan, Meg, Beauty in Artist';s Eye, Daily News, September 23 
Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week:; Pure Beauty, L.A. Weekly, July 9 
Iayaro, Judy, Gehry';s Diamond in the Rough in Paris, Wall 
Street Journal (European Edition), June 10 
Breerette, Geneviéve, Tout Nouveau, Tout Beau, Le Monde, June 8 
Lab, Walter, Location, Location, and Location, Visions, Summer Edition 
Kandel, Susan, A Visit to an Expanded Notion of Place
The Los Angeles Times, January 8 

1993
Frank, Peter, The Elegant, The Irreverent & The Obsessive
L.A. Weekly, July 9 
DiMichele, David, Hand, Eye, and Brain, Artweek, July 8 
Scarborough, James, Kelly Mason at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Artweek, October