T. Kelly Mason Born in 1964, Hollywood, California. Education 1990 M.F.A., Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California 1988 B.A., Music/Liberal Arts; California State University at Long Beach Awards and Grants 2009 Centre du Monde Residency, Belle Ile France 2004 Gottlieb Foundation Grant, New York, NY 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, Panama City, Panama 1994 One-year fellowship, Art Matters Inc., New York, NY Solo Exhibitions 2008 You try being someone else, Corso Venezia Otto, Milano, Italy Who are the luminaries of our time, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Bruxelles relay, Art Basel, Art Unlimited, West of Rome, Los Angeles 2007 Bury Me Like This, Adamski Galerie, Berlin Germany 40 Steps, Gimpel Fils, London relay, West of Rome, Los Angeles 2006 HOWL, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels JUMP Booth, with Galerie Catherine Bastide FIAC Paris, Paris, France What Goes Up What Goes Down, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Double Negative, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles 2003 Two or Three Things I Know, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris 2002 House Proposal, lemon sky projects + editions, Los Angeles Rhetorical, The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles 2000 You Should’ve Been There, Catherine Bastide/123 ASBL, Brussels 1999 Suggesting Islands, Stones, Water… Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles 1997 Mid Winter Drawings, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica 1995 High Points Drifter, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica Sunset; Painting, Decoration and Western Living, Bliss Gallery, Pasadena 1992 Executive Suite: Installation at the FAR Bazaar: Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles 1990 Recorded Material; M.F.A. show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena An Evening With Shelley Berman, W.C. Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena The Archie Bunker, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena Group Exhibitions 2008 In the Beginning, University of California at San Diego Art Gallery Index, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Sampling, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Festpiele+ North Hall Installation, Bayerische Staatsoper, (Bavarian State Opera) Munich, Germany Festspiele+, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany 2006 Whitney Bienniel 2006, Day For Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 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 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 2003 Trespassing: Houses x Artists, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles University of South Florida, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL Conversations, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 2002 Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA Startkapital, Kunstsammulung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany LA, CA, The B Sides, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles Stuffed, 1301 PE Los Angeles 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, Los Angeles 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 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, 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 Titles for Drawings, AC Project Room, New York 1998 Global Tekno, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris Entropie zu Hause, Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany Zimmer See, Aachen Kunsthalle, Aachen, Germany Low, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles Places That Are Elsewhere, David Zwirner Gallery, New York Reverb, Brewery Project, Los Angeles 1997 Ten Los Angeles Artists, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Yard Sale, Special K Exhibitions, Los Angeles Muse X Editions Recent Publications, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles 1996 Now Here: Work In Progress, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark True Bliss, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE ), Hollywood, California 100 Photographs, American Fine Arts, Co. , New York Where The Strange Things Are; Jünge Szene, Vienna Secession, Vienna 1995 Domesticities: Angela Lim, T. Kelly Mason, Michael Peglau, Here Art, New York Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York 1994 Pure Beauty, American Center, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Get Well Soon, Smashbox, Culver City, CA Thicket, New York Utterings, Contemporary Drawings, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA 1993 LAX Exhibition: About Place, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA Germinal Notations, Food House, Santa Monica, CA Tattoo Collection, L’Art dans la Peau, CRDC, Nantes, France 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; Urbi et Orbi, Paris; Bucholz and Schipper, Köln 1991 The elegant, irreverent & obsessive: Drawing in Southern California; California State University at Fullerton Visual Arts Center, Fullerton, CA 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 Group Show, Janet Curtis Gallery, Naples, CA 1988 Sound Sculptures, California State University at Long Beach. CA Pile It On, Tom Henry Space, Los Angeles 1987 Card Sharks, Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles 1986 Group Show, The Reno Room, Long Beach, CA Films, Music, Performances, Video Screenings 2006 JUMP, a16mm film produced in collaboration with Diana Thater. Screening at Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 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, London 2004 Welcome to Taiji, documentary film for The Dolphin Project. Sound recording and original music (recorded and produced in English, French, and Japanese) Segments shown on BBC 1, NBC Frontline, Arte, France 2000 The Dolphin Project, documentary film. Sound recording and original music The Future That Almost Wasn’t, a collaboration with Diana Thater, Marstall Theatre, Munich, Germany 1999 The Future That Almost Wasn’t, collaboration with Diana Thater APLA Sound Stages, Los Angeles 1998 The Future That Almost Wasn’t, collaboration with Diana Thater Art Pace, San Antonio TX Sunshine and Noir. Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997, UCLA at The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 1997 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 1995 Video Screening, The Center for New Television, Chicago Soundtrack to Shilo, 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 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... Into the Lapse, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London Friesenwall 120. Köln; Dogenhaus, Leipzig, Germany Société des Expositions, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen 1992 RGB Ghosts in Claude Monet’s Salon, Into the Lapse. 1301 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Far Bazaar, Los Angeles 1990 We’re Making a Hippopotamus. A Performance, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA Published Writings/Projects 2009 HOWL, 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles Drawling, stretching and fainting in coils, Festpiele+ Northhall Installation, Bayersiche Staatsoper/Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany 2008 You trying being someone else, Corso Venezia Otto, Milan 2003 Jahresring 50, Jahrbuch für moderne Kunst, Köln, Germany 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”, X-tra Vol. II issue 3 Spring 1999 1998 "Hollywood, America October 1998”, Paradex Vol. 1 November 1998 edited by Sebastian Egenhofer, Köln, Germany 1997 “The Future That Almost Wasn’t”, Transcript Volume 2 issue 3 Dundee, Scotland “Artist’s Statement”, Now Here: Work In Progress, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark 1996 “Ideal Places, Investments, Indigestion”, L’endroit idéal (Ideal Place) edited by Eric Troncy, L’ille du Roy, Centre d’art et Jardin, Val de Reuil., France Re-published 1998 in Spring Journal, Vol. 1 ed. by Daniel Mendel Black, Los Angeles Commissions and Projects 2003-4 Lead Designer and Project Architect, American Apparel Stores. Three locations in Los Angeles area: Echo Park, Hollywood &Vermont, Robertson Boulevard 1999-present Artist-in-Residence for the Dolphin Project and Save Japan Dolphins, non-profit organizations dedicated to dolphin and whale protection worldwide Bibliography Catalogs 2009 HOWL, 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles Drawling, stretching and fainting in coils, Festpiele+ Northhall Installation, Bayersiche Staatsoper/Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany 2008 You trying being someone else, Corso Venezia Otto, Milan 2006 Iles, Chrissie and Philippe Vergne, Whitney Bienniel 2006, Day For Night, Abrams 2002 Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Bellevue Art Museum, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern Germany 2000 Häusler Krista and Elizabeth Schweeger, eds. L.A.-ex Performances, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern Germany 1999 Amanshauser, Hildegund and Diana Thater, A living theater, Salzburg Kunstverien, Salzburg Austria Gundlach, F.C. and Wilhelm Schürmann, 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, The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen 1992 Ross, Adam. Drawings, Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA McGee, Mike. The elegant, irreverent & obsessive: Drawing in Southern California, California State University at Fullerton Visual Arts Center, Fullerton, CA Articles and Reviews 2006 Berwick, Carly, “Whitney Biennial 2006,” Art News, New York Scheldahl, Peter, “Critics Notebook,” New Yorker, New York, March 20 Smith, Roberta, “Critics Notebook,” New York Times, New York, July 28 Oksenhorn, Stewart, “JUMP” Aspen Times, Aspen, CO, April 27 2005 Griffis, Ryan, “JUMP” artUS, issue9, Los Angeles, July/September 2003 Tumlir, Jan, “Trespassing: Houses x Artists,” frieze.com 2002 “Trespassing: Houses x Artists,” Seattle Times, Seattle, WA 2000 Tumlir, Jan, “T. Kelly Mason at Marc Foxx,” Artext, February-April 2000 Stamen, Silvia, “Kein Rausch, The Future That Almost Wasn’t,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany, May 19 Babnik, Erika, “Amerikanischer(Alp-)Traum”, Münchner Stadtmagazin, Munich, Germany, April Wiedemann, Christoph, “Rauschen in der Satellitenschüssel, Chaos im Bett”, SZ Extra, Munich, Germany, April 13-19 1999 Rickels, Laurence A., “Art/Journalism”, X-tra Vol.II issue 4, Los Angeles, Summer 1999 1998 Isé, Claudine, “Finding New Uses for Household Items,” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, April 11 Spaid, Sue, “Mid Winter Drawings,” Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, February 1997 Darling, Michael, “T. Kelly Mason,” frieze, London, May Kandel, Susan, “Map Maker,” Los Angeles Times, February 29 1996 Zellen, Jody, “What is a Geographical Space?” Art Press, Paris, January 1996 LaBelle, Charles, “T. Kelly Mason, High Points Drifter,” World Art, New York, 1st Quarter 1996 1995 Miles, Christopher, “T. Kelly Mason at Marc Foxx” Artweek, Palo Alto, CA, 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, New York, June 10 Breerette, Geneviéve, “Tout Nouveau, Tout Beau,” Le Monde, June 8 Lab, Walter, “Location, Location, and Location,” Visions, Los Angeles, Summer Edition Kandel, Susan, “A Visit to an Expanded Notion of Place,” 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, Palo Alto, CA, July 8 Scarborough, James, “Kelly Mason at Shoshana Wayne Gallery,” Artweek, Palo Alto, CA, October 8 Teaching 2005-Present Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 2005 Sound in Film and Video, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA Drawing Studio, Lecturer, UCSD San Diego, CA 2004 Video Installation Seminar, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 2003 Sculpture Studio, Lecturer, UCSD, San Diego, CA Sculpture Studio, Lecturer, UCI, Irvine, CA Sound Art Seminar, Otis School of Art, Culver City CA 2001 Installation Art seminar at Det Fynske Academie, Odense, Denmark Guest Lecturer and Critic at Otis School of Art, Culver City 2000 Installation Art seminar at Deutsches Kunst Akademie, Munich, Germany 1998 Guest Lecturer and Critic at Otis, Culver City 1997 Guest Lecturer at Otis Parsons School of Art, Los Angeles and Culver City Guest Lecturer Royal Academy of Art, London 1996 New Genres/Sculpture at UCLA, Los Angeles Guest Lecturer and Critic at Otis Parsons School of Art, Los Angeles Guest Lecturer and Critic at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1995 Guest Lecturer at Otis Parsons School of Art, Los Angeles Guest Lecturer and Critic at UCLA, Los Angeles Guest Lecturer and Critic at UCSB, Santa Barbara 1993-2000 Guest Lecturer and Critic at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena Public Collections - Sammlung Schürmann, Aachen, Germany - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles - Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles - New York Public Library, New York