T. Kelly Mason
Education
1990 M.F.A., Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1988 B.A., Music/Liberal Arts; California State University at Long Beach
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2019
Space Film, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
2016
The Longer I Chase This Cloud The More I Think I Know About It, Éric Hussenot, Paris
Charrette; A Collaboration with a Few of My Previous Selves, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
2015
The Open Society, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
2014
Artist’s Studios, Art Feature, Art Basel, Basel
2013
Tell it Like it Is, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
Atmospheric, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
Post-it Notes and Picks for tc: temporary contemporary, project. Bass Museum of Art, Miami FL
2011
Nocturne, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Westwood, CA
Laumeier Lamps, commission for the Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
2010
Don’t Just Stand There, Do Something, Adamski Galerie, Berlin, Germany
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
Lead Designer and Project Architect, American Apparel Stores #1-Echo Park,
#3-Robertson Boulevard and #5-Hollywood &Vermont
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 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
The Archie Bunker, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Art in America, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
2018
Three’s Company, Dan Graham, Los Angeles
Painting Architecture, UC Riverside Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside CA
2016
Brain Multiples at 25, 1301 PE, Los Angeles
2015
PROSPECT 2015, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Saying Yes To Everything, curated by Corrina Piepon, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2014
Centre du Monde, EPCC Frac Bretagne, Ville de Rennes, France
2013
Fellows of Contemporary Art, Award Exhibition, Los Angeles CA
Dig the Dig, Maker City LA, Los Angeles
"A Point of View: Selected Gifts from the Laurence A. Rickels Collection," MOCA, Los Angeles
2012
Art Basel Miami Nova Section (2 person booth) with Cherry and Martin Gallery
2010
Faculty Exhibition, Washington University at St Louis, Des Lee gallery, St Louis MO
2009
is what it is what it is, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
Mise A Jour, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Centre Du Monde, Centre Culturel Colombier, Rennes,France
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) and Pinakothek der
Moderne, Munich, Germany
2006
Whitney Bienniel 2006, Day For Night, Whitney Museum, 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 : Houston, TX - Palm Springs Desert
Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2004
100 Artists See God, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA - Laguna Art Museum,
Laguna Beach, CA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
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, MOCA, Los Angeles
2002
Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Startkapital, Kunstsammulung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
Stuffed, 1301 PE Los Angeles
2001
Superman, Collection Schurmann, Kunsthalle Dortmund, Germany
2000
Made In Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,
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,
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
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
1996
Now Here: Work In Progress, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
True Bliss, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE ), Hollywood
1996
100 Photographs, American Fine Arts, Co. , New York
Where The Strange Things Are; Jünge Szene, Vienna Secession, Vienna
1995
Domesticities, Here Art, New York
Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York
1994
Pure Beauty, American Center, Paris - MOCA, 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
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&Schipper, Köln
Films, Music, Performances, Video Screenings
2018
Soundtrack for Diana Thater’s True Life Adventures, Art on The Mart, Chicago
2016
Los Tres Pericos at “The Devil’s House” Los Angeles
Desert Mud music festival
2014
Living In Volkswagen Buses, presented by Supportico-Lopez at the Paradise Garage, Venice CA
2012
Materializing The Immaterial, with George Baker and Tyler Cassity - Hammer Museum Lecture
2011
Future Sound Shock, DJ Residency, Bar Copa, Venice CA
2010
12 x 12 Country Club Gallery at the Schindler Buck House in Hollywood, CA
2009
RealSounds For Jack Goldstein, Art Catalogs at MOCA
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 Ric O’Barry and 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 Dialogue Editing 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 - AidsProjectLA 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
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, as an MTV ART spot,May-June
1994
Excerpts from Hits...Near Misses...A crash...A movie..
Screened at: Ecomove 94, Conference on Transportation, Urban Planning and the Environment,
Kassel, Germany
Published Writings and Projects
2014
Places, includes interview by Rochelle Steiner, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
2013
Post-it Project in Bass Museum members publication Spring/Summer
2010
12 x 12, Emma Gray Editions
Bones, Shifter magazine Issue 16.
2009
Drawling, stretching and fainting in coils, Festpiele+Bayersiche Staatsoper/Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2008
You Try 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
1999-2006
Artist-in-Residence for the Dolphin Project and Save Japan Dolphins, non-profit
organizations dedicated to dolphin and whale protection worldwide
Bibliography
Catalogs
2014
Places, T. Kelly Mason, with interview by Rochelle Steiner, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
2009
Drawling, stretching and fainting in coils, Bayersiche Staatsoper/Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2008
Mason, T. Kelly You Try Being Someone Else, Corso Venezia Otto, Milan
2006
Iles, Chrissie and Philippe Vergne, Whitney Bienniel 2006, Day For Night, Abrams
2002
Mason, T. Kelly, Kevin Appel, Barbara Bloom, Chris Burden, Jim Isermann, Julian Opie, Renée Petropolis,
David Reed and Jessica Stockholder Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Bellevue Art Museum, Hatje Cantz Verlag,
Ostfildern
2000
Häusler Krista and Elizabeth Schweeger, eds. L.A.-ex Performances, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern
1999
Amanshauser, Hildegund and Diana Thater, A Living Theater, Salzburg Kunstverien, Salzburg
1999
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
Selected Articles and Reviews
(post 2006 reviews are online)
2006
Berwick, Carly, “Whitney Biennial 2006,” Art News, New York
Scheldahl, Peter, “Critics Notebook,” New Yorker, New York, March 20
Oksenhorn, Stewart, “JUMP” Aspen Times, Aspen, CO, April 27
Smith, Roberta, “Critics Notebook,” New York Times, New York, July 28
Taft, Catherine, “T. Kelly Mason,” Artforum Critic’s Picks, November 25-December 23
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
Stamen, Silvia, “Kein Rausch, The Future That Almost Wasn’t,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, May 19
Babnik, Erika, “Amerikanischer(Alp-)Traum”, Münchner Stadtmagazin, Munich, Germany, April
Wiedemann, Christoph, “Rauschen in der Satellitenschüssel, Chaos im Bett”, SZ Extra, Munich, April 13-19
1999
Rickels, Laurence A., “Art/Journalism”, X-tra Vol.II issue 4 Summer, Los Angeles,
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
LaBelle, Charles, “T. Kelly Mason, High Points Drifter,” World Art, New York, 1st Qtr
1995
Miles, Christopher, “T. Kelly Mason at Marc Foxx” Artweek, Palo Alto, CA, Nov.
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, Nov.17
“Pure Beauty: Some Recent Work from Los Angeles,” San Diego Update, Sept. 28
Donahue, Marlena, “New Definition of Pure Beauty,” Santa Monica Daily Breeze, Sept. 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 Ed.
Kandel, Susan, “A Visit to an Expanded Notion of Place,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 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, Oct. 8
Awards and Grants
2016
Art Center College 15 year Recognition of Service Award
2013
Fellows Of Contemporary Art, FOCA Fellowship
Center For Cultural Innovation, Investing In Artists Award
Art Center College of Design, Faculty Enrichment Grant
2011
Art Center College 10 year Recognition of Service Award
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
Professional Organizations
2011- 2017
Member, International Advisory Committee, Laumeier Sculpture Park
Teaching
2001-Present
Assistant Professor, Graduate Fine Art, Art Center College of Design,
Pasadena, CA
2009-2011
W.H Smith Distinguished Visiting Assistant Professor,
Washington University in Saint Louis, Graduate School of Art,
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2005
Sound in Film and Video, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Drawing Studio, Lecturer, UCSD San Diego, 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 at Otis Parsons School of Art, Los Angeles and Culver City
1997
Guest Lecturer Royal Academy of Art, London
1996
New Genres/Sculpture at UCLA, Los Angeles
Guest Lecturer and Critic at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA