35. KURT KAUPER
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"Portrait of Mie, After
Harper's Bazaar, July 1958", 2012 graphite on paper 53,x 37,56 cm
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Woman I, 2015, oil on panel,
223,52 x 147,32 cm.
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1966
in Indianapolis, IN
Nowadays:
He
lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Studies:
1995 MFA, University of California, Los
Angeles, CA
1988 BFA, Boston University, Boston, MA
Kauper began teaching at Princeton in 2010, and
is also a Professor of Art at Queens College, CUNY. Before coming to Princeton,
he taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Yale
University.
Themes and style:
Kurt
Kauper is a painter whose work had, for the past fifteen years, been images of
familiar cultural icons—opera divas, Cary Grant, hockey players, and Barack and
Michelle Obama—seen in a variety of unfamiliar ways. No longer working with well-known
subjects, he is currently making paintings of naked women to be exhibited soon
at ACME Gallery in Los Angeles.
Techniques:
His work is developed in paintings.
Solo Exhibitions
2015 ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2007 Everybody Knew That Canadians were the
Best Hockey Players, Deitch Projects, New
York, NY
2005 Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2003 ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2000 Deitch Projects, New York, NY
1999 ACME., Los Angeles, CA
1997 Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (Two
Person exhibition with Judie Bamber)
ACME., Santa Monica, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 20 Years of ACME., ACME., Los
Angeles, CA
2011 Works of Paper, ACME., Los
Angeles, CA
2010 Private Future, curated by Michael
Cline, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
2009 Sea Change, Rio Honda College Art
Gallery, Whittier, CA
Private(dis)play, curated by Jamie
Adams and Katharine Kuharic, Center of Creative
Arts, Saint Louis, MO
2008 Out of Shape, Frances Lehman Loeb
Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2007 Celebrity, curated by Marilu
Knode, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale,
AZ
Face Value, Sam Francis
Gallery/Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA
NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New
York, NY
Fung Wah, Howard Yezerski Gallery,
Boston, MA
2005 Superstar, Kunsthalle, Wien
Postmodern Portraiture, The Logan
Collection, Vail, CO
Tete a Tete, Greenberg Van Doren
Gallery, New York, NY
Honeymoon with Romeo, Groeflin/Maag
Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Image/Text, G.A.S.P., Boston, MA
2004 The Charged Image, Joseloff
Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation for
Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Sheʼs Come Undone, Greenberg Van Doren
Gallery, New York, NY
When I Think About You I Touch Myself,
curated by David Humphrey, New York
Academy of Art, New York, NY
Singing My Song, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2003 Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art
from the Neuberger Berman Collection, Henry Art
Gallery, Seattle, WA
Reverie: Works from the Collection of
Douglas Cramer, The Speed Art Museum,
Louisville, KY
Chére Paintre, Liebe Maler, Dear
Painter, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2002 By The Hand of the Father, Luckman
Gallery, California State University,
Los Angeles, CA
Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits,
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Painting and Illustration, Luckman
Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, Los
Angeles, CA
Chére Paintre, Liebe Maler, Dear
Painter, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Chére Paintre, Liebe Maler, Dear
Painter, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Supernatural Playground, Marella Arte
Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Post L.A. Cool, curated by Michael
Duncan, San Jose Museum of Art,
San Jose,CA
Enough About Me, curated by Deb Kass,
Momenta, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Form Follows Fiction, Castello di
Rivoli, Torino, Italy
Casino 2001, First Quadrennial of
Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele
Kunst (SMAK), Gent, Belgium
Before They Became Who They Are, Kravets/Wehby
Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Recent Acquisitions, Deste
Foundation, Athens, Greece
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery,
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
Greensboro, NC
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY
1999 In Your Face, New Langton Arts,
San Francisco, CA
1998 Painting From Another Planet,
Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Transience and Sentimentality,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1997 Two-person exhibtion with Judie
Bamber, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
1996 Be Specific, Rosamund Felsen
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Subject/Object, Cerritos College of Art
Gallery, Cerritos, CA
1995 Realm of Morpheus: Dream Image in
Art, Nexus Foundation for Todayʼs Art,
Philadelphia, PA
Self-Portrayal, Post, Los Angeles, CA
Vital Signs, L.A. Municipal Art
Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
ACME., Santa Monica, CA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of
California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1994 House of Styles, TRI Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
Paper Presence, Jan Abrams Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
Small Works, Pentimenti Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
Figuratively Speaking, Jan Abrams
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Hot Crop, Claremont McKenna College
Gallery, Claremont, CA
1990 Figures, Faces, and Body Parts,
Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Awards
2001 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Grant
1995 Kay Nielsen Memorial Award for
Drawing
1993 Kay Nielsen Memorial Award for
Drawing
1989 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
Grant
1988 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport
Beach, CA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,
CT
In his own words:
(Once when he was asked: "Are you in
love with yourself?") "Sure," he replied. "This is what I
paint, this love of me. Once, I took it so far as to make love to myself. Before
going to sleep, I had put one of my pictures between my bed and the wall close
to my bed. Suddenly I woke up, and the emotion was so strong that I grabbed the
painting, put it on top of me and made love with it."
Representative
Galleries:
ACME Gallery
For
more Information:
http://www.acmelosangeles.com/artists/kurt-kauper/