Tuesday Night Lecture Series: Martin Kersels

As part of the Tuesday Night Lecture Series (TNLS) BU College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts presents a lecture with artist Martin Kersels, organized by MFA Sculpture.Martin Kersels was born in Los Angeles, California. After graduating with an undergraduate degree in art from UCLA in 1984, he became a founding member of the collaborative performance group SHRIMPS. This group worked together on movement-based performances until 1993. Back at UCLA for his MFA from 1992 to 1995, he began to create both intimate and large sculptures, photographs that documented performative moments, and videos that presented his body as an object within a world deteriorating around him. His interest in machines, entropy, sound, and cultural debris has produced work that examines the dynamic tension between failure and success, the individual and the group, and the thin line between humor and misfortune. Since 1995, Kersels’ objects and projects have been exhibited at museums both nationally and internationally, including the 1997 and 2010 Whitney Biennials, the Pompidou Center, MOCA Los Angeles, the Pompidou Brussels, the L.A. County Museum of Art, the Tinguely Museum, Kunsthalle Bern, MAMCO in Geneva, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art. TNLS visiting artists are organized by SVA’s five MFA programs in Painting, Sculpture, Print Media & Photography, Graphic Design, and Visual Narrative. TNLS brings practicing artists, designers, and arts professionals to Boston University to present their work and meet with students for individual and group critiques and hands-on workshops. Lectures are free and open to the public.

When 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm on Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Building FLR, 808 Commonwealth Ave, Brookline MA 02446
Room 410 + 411