Kenneth Feingold
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Kenneth Feingold (USA, 1952 - ) is a contemporary artist. He has been exhibiting his work in drawing, film, video, objects, and installations since 1974. His work was the subject of a mid-career survey exhibition at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles (Oct 2005 - February 2006). Among the numerous awards and honors Feingold has received, the most recent include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2004)and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship (2003) . He has taught at Princeton University and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, among others. His works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and many other museums.
After first studying at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, he received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in "Post-Studio Art" from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA. He has traveled widely, living for extended periods of time in India, Japan, and Argentina and working for shorter periods in many other countries. He lives in New York City and is represented by Ace Gallery, New York/Los Angeles.
his website: [http://www.kenfeingold.com]
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1952 born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1956 family moves to New York
1970 attends Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio studies and works with Paul Sharits; makes experimental 16mm films and film installations works at Filmmakers’ Co-op in New York 1971-75 moves to San Francisco, later transfers to CalArts and moves to Los Angeles studies at CalArts in Art Department with John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, David Antin and in Film Department with Pat O’Neil works as teaching and studio assistant for John Baldessari (continues until 1976) solo exhibition of 16mm films at Millennium Film Workshop, New York inclusion of films in “Text & Image” and “Stills” group exhibitions at Whitney Museum of American Art, NY solo exhibition of sculptures and video at Gallery A-402, CalArts, Valencia solo exhibition of drawings at Claire S. Copley Gallery, Los Angeles inclusion of three videotapes in "Southland Video Anthology”, Long Beach Museum of Art
1976 receives MFA from Cal Arts moves back to New York works as studio assistant for Vito Acconci
1977 accepts teaching position at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, moves to Minneapolis film screening at The Kitchen, New York first article on his work published: “Six Films by Ken Feingold” by David James published in LAICA Journal, LA
1978-81 survey of 16mm films at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis exhibition in Project Room at Artists’s Space, New York solo exhibition of “Sexual Jokes” video installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art receives NEA Visual Art Fellowship develops new body of sculptures and installation works
1982-83 sabbatical from teaching travels extensively recording film in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka exhibits video works in Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial and Anthology Film Archives, New York Walker Art Center, Minneapolis The Kitchen, NY L.A.C.E. Gallery, Los Angeles video works first represented by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
1984 travels for exhibitions in Europe, visits Cairo to develop video project video works show at Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Long Beach Museum of Art, California MonteVideo, Amsterdam first represented in Europe by Galerie Rene Coelho, Amsterdam
1985-86 moves back to New York “Signs No. 1-15” in group exhibition “Signs” at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY video included in The Whitney Museum 1985 Biennial Exhibition, NY and at Institute for Art and Urban Resources (P.S.1), NY; guest artist at The American Center, Paris The Museum of Modern Art, NY "Video Viewpoints: Ken Feingold" Museum of Modern At, NY acquires video works for its Film Study Collection receives funding from New York State Council on the Arts, The Contemporary Art Television(CAT) Fund, and The McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Artists travels for almost one year to record video in Hong Kong, SIngapore, Japan, Indonesia and extended video work in remote areas of India and Thailand
1987 – 88 video work show at The Kitchen, New York Netherlands Theater Institute, Theater Tape Festival, Amsterdam L.A.C.E. Gallery, Los Angeles The Kijkhuis, WorldWide Video Festival, The Hague MonteVideo, Amsterdam Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tenth Anniversary Exhibition The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Aarhus Museum of Art, Copenhagen Festival International du Nouveau Cinema et de la Video, Montreal Newport Harbor Art Museum, California "Skeptical Beliefs” Fukui Fine Arts Museum, "International Biennale", Fukui, Japan Long Beach Museum of Art, California invited to present talk in the permanent collection gallery of the Museum of Modern Art, NY for series "Contemporary Art in Context", lectures on “Infinity in Duchamp and DeChirico”. receives NEA Media Arts Fellowship and The Bush Foundation Fellowship for Artists receives Fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, The Jerome Foundation, Checkerboard Foundation exhibits video installation “The Lost Soul” at The Asia Society, New York returns to India, records extensive series of interviews with Tibetan philosophers living in exile in India; completes “Distance of the Outsider” series of video works, a three-year project
1989 video work included in Whitney Museum of American Art 1989 Biennial Exhibition and National Gallery of Canada Whitney Museum of American Art, "Image World: Meta-Media" American Museum of the Moving Image, NY, "Video as Language" installation “The Lost Soul” shown at The Kijkhuis, World Wide Video Festival, The Hague receives US/Japan Friendship Commission Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship (through NEA Media Arts) extended travels in Argentina and Uruguay, returns semi-annually through 2005 begins teaching at Princeton University, Visual Arts Program, teaches there on and off through 1994
1990 lives in Japan for six months on fellowship, travels widely exhibits video work at Image Forum, Tokyo; Festival of Experimental Film & Video, "The Work of Ken Feingold" Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan "Ken Feingold", Retrospective video screening Museum of Modern Art, NY; "Dream" Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; "Video Art Internacional" drawings shown at Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany; "Paper as Knowledge"
1991-92 Feingold’s first interactive artwork “The Surprising Spiral” completed and is exhibited at Kunsthalle Dominikannerkirche, "European Media Art Festival", Osnabrück, Germany Galerie René Coelho / MonteVideo; Amsterdam 145 Hudson Street, New York ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karslruhe, Germany; "Bitte Berühren (Please Touch)" Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, "Installations: Ken Feingold & Thiery Kuntzel” Odense,Denmark OTSO Gallery, Helsinki creates first interactive works with talking puppet heads and begins artworks using them connected to the Internet video work shown at Bonn Kunstverein, BonnVideonale (winner of Videonale-Preis for tape "Un Chien Délicieux") Berlin Video Festival Simon Watson Gallery, NY, "The Body" Museum of Modern Art, NY; "Fact/Fiction" Tibet Film Festival, "Tibet in Times Square" (video for Sony "Jumbotron" tv), NYC L.A.C.E. Gallery, Los Angeles, "Perception/Misperception" Stadtmuseum Graz, “Steirischer Herbst ‘91/ Körper & Körper”, Graz, Austria receives funding from New York State Council on the Arts ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karslruhe acquires interactive installation “The Surprising Spiral” for its permanent collection
1993-96 works included in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, NY; "Between Word and Image" Institut Valencia d’Art Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain; "Demontage: Film, Video / Appropriation, Recycling" (travels Spain, Portugal, Holland); WDR (national tv broadcast), Germany; "Ken Feingold's Un Chien Délicieux" Gallery Puskinskaya, Saint Petersburg International Center of Photography, NY; "Iterations" Bonn Kunstverein; Bonn Videonalle Biennale de Art Contemporain de Lyon; Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles Mary Anthony Galleries, New York, "Synesthesia" Postmasters Gallery, New York, “Can You Digit?” Centro de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona teaches for one year at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, School of Art begins teaching at School of Visual Arts, NY, Graduate Computer Art Dept. (stays through 1998) Feingold’s first web projects “REKD”, “JCJ Junkman” artintact3 (ZKM Karlsruhe) publishes “SurReal Time Interaction or How to Talk to a Dummy in a Magnetic Mirror?” by Erkki Huhtamo – first essay surveying Feingold’s interactive andmedia artworks to date.
1997-98 receives commission to create and exhibit interactive installation “Interior” for InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, “ICC Biennale ‘97” awarded DNP Internet ‘97 Interactive Award; Dai Nippon Printing, Tokyo installation works exhibited at Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, “Interact! Key Works of Interactive Art” Postmasters Gallery, New York, “Password Ferdydurke” ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, “SurroGate” National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, “Visual Extension - Fantasy and Reality” video works shown in Documenta X “Beware! In Playing the Phantom You Become One”, Kassel Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, “Glut/Fest” David Zwirner Gallery, New York, “Video Library” lectures on his works at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; “Technology in the Nineties” residency at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe Germany; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, commissions interactive work “Head” maintains studio in Buenos Aires; develops his first interactive conversation works
1999-2000 shows installations at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, “net_condition” Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; “Alien Intelligence” (”Head” acquired for permanent collection); Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana; “Cyborg I” Beall Center for Art & Technology,UC Irvine; “SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games & Art”; video works shown at Arsenal, Berlin; “The Skin of the Film” The Museum of Modern Art, NY; “Video Time” awarded prize by Fundación Telefónica; Vida 3.0 (Life 3.0), Madrid
2001-02 Postmasters Gallery, New York, solo exhibition installations in exhibitions: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, “Under the Skin” Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz “In the Field of Letters” J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, “Devices of Wonder” Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, “Contaminados”; San Jose, Costa Rica Postmasters Gallery, New York; “Joy and Revolution” Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, “exposição emoção art.ficial” Seoul Museum of Art, “media city seoul 2002” guest artist at The Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm receives commission from Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool sculpture “If/Then” included in Whitney Museum of American Art, “2002 Biennial Exhibition” three installations/sculptures included in 47th Corcoran Biennial; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, "Fantasy Underfoot"
2003-04 receives Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship receives John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship installation shown at Tate Liverpool in “Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance” three new cinematic sculptures in solo exhibition at the Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston screen-based video and computer works shown at Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive Postmasters Gallery, New York; “Hot Summer Cool” Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shropshire, UK Smart Project Space “Smart Cinema”; Amsterdam exhibits “Sinking Feeling” at Ace Gallery, L.A.
2005 Survey Exhibition of works 1972-2005 at Ace Gallery L.A
