Kenneth Feingold
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Kenneth Feingold is a contemporary American
conceptual artist based in New York
. He has been exhibiting his work in video, drawing, film, sculpture, and installations since 1974. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship
(2004) and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship(2003) and 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 Liverpool
, the Whitney Museum of American Art
, New York, and many other museums.
, in 1952 and moved to New York City
with his family in 1956. He studied at Antioch College
, Yellow Springs, Ohio under Paul Sharits
, making experimental 16mm films and film installations and working at The Film-Makers' Cooperative
in New York.
, Allan Kaprow
, Michael Asher (artist), David Antin
and Pat O'Neill
. He worked as studio assistant for John Baldessari
until 1976, when he graduated from CalArts with an MFA
. His first solo exhibition of 16mm films was held at Millennium Film Workshop, New York, and he was included in the group exhibitions “Text & Image” and “Stills” at the Whitney Museum of American Art
, NY. Other solo exhibitions in the early 1970s included Gallery A-402, CalArts, Valencia and Claire S. Copley Gallery, Los Angeles. Three video works were included in the "Southland Video Anthology”, a group exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art
.
In 1976 he moved back to New York and worked as a studio assistant for Vito Acconci
. In the following year he took up a teaching post at Minneapolis College of Art and Design
. He had a film screening at The Kitchen
, New York and an article on his work was published: “Six Films by Ken Feingold” by David James published in Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA) Journal, LA. He participated in a survey of his 16mm films at the Walker Art Center
, Minneapolis and exhibited an installation in the Project Room at Artists' Space, New York.
and he received a National Endowment for the Arts
Visual Art Fellowship, and later a Media Arts Fellowship. Taking a sabbatical from teaching, he travelled India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. He participated in the 1985 and 1989 Whitney Biennial
and exhibited widely in America and Europe.
His three year project of videotaping in South Asia resulted in the Distance of the Outsider series of video works. Among these were "India Time" (1987) and "Life in Exile" (1988), a series of interviews with Tibetan philosophers and former political prisoners living in exile in India.
In the 1980s he gave lectures at the Museum of Modern Art
, and from 1989 to 1994 he taught on the Visual Arts program at Princeton University
.
He received funding from New York State Council on the Arts, The Contemporary Art Television(CAT) Fund, and The McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Artists, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Jerome Foundation, Checkerboard Foundation. In 1989 he received a US/Japan Friendship Commission Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship (through National Endowment for the Arts
).
Teaching posts in the 1990s included Princeton University
, Cooper Union
and the School of Visual Arts
(until 1998).
He won the Videonale-Preis at BonnVideonale, Bonn Kunstverein, for his work Un Chien Délicieux and received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts
, and the National Endowment for the Arts
.
In 1997 he created the interactive installation “Interior” for InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, “ICC Biennale ‘97” and was awarded the DNP Internet ‘97 Interactive Award; Dai Nippon Printing, Tokyo. The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, commissioned the interactive work “Head” for the exhibition "Alien Intelligence" in 1999. He maintained a studio in Buenos Aires and developed his first interactive conversation works.
In 1999 he was awarded a prize by Fundación Telefónica; Vida 3.0 (Life 3.0), Madrid.
He participated in documenta
X in a curated program titled "Beware".
, and in 2003 he received a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship (now part of the Tribeca Film Festival
) and a Guggenheim Fellowship
.
His work "Self Portrait as the Center of the Universe" (2001) was included in the historical overview exhibition “Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance” at the Tate Liverpool in 2004. "The Surprising Spiral" was included in “Masterpieces of Media Art from the ZKM Collection” at the ZKM Karlsruhe in 2005.
ACE Gallery
, Los Angeles, presented a mid-career survey of his work in 2005-2006.
A selection of his early films and video works was screened at Museum of Modern Art, New York as part of “TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures” in 2006.
A solo show of his installation work "Eros and Thanatos Flying/Falling" (2006)was held at Mejan Labs, Stockholm in 2006, and his work "Box of Men" (2007) was included in "Kempelen - Man in the Machine" at Műscarnok, Budapest and traveled to ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe later that year. "JCJ-Junkman" (1995) was included in "Imagining Media @ ZKM" at the ZKM Karlsruhe in 2009 and "Eros and Thanatos Flying/Falling" was exhibited in the Mediations Biennale in Poznan, Poland in 2010.
Film Collection, NY; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karslruhe; Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; the National Gallery of Canada
.; Centre Georges Pompidou
, Paris; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San Jose, Costa Rica; Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, among others.
United States
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conceptual artist based in New York
New York City
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. He has been exhibiting his work in video, drawing, film, sculpture, and installations since 1974. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
(2004) and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship(2003) and 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
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...
, Paris; Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool is an art gallery and museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and part of Tate, along with Tate St Ives, Cornwall, Tate Britain, London, and Tate Modern, London. The museum was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corporation...
, the Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
, New York, and many other museums.
Life and work
Feingold was born in Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
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, in 1952 and moved to New York City
New York City
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with his family in 1956. He studied at Antioch College
Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. It was the founder and the flagship institution of the six-campus Antioch University system. Founded in 1852 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1853 with politician and...
, Yellow Springs, Ohio under Paul Sharits
Paul Sharits
Paul Jeffrey Sharits Paul Sharits was a visual artist, best known for his work in "experimental" or avant-garde filmmaking, particularly what became known as the Structural film movement, along with artists such as Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, and Michael Snow.His film work primarily focused on...
, making experimental 16mm films and film installations and working at The Film-Makers' Cooperative
The Film-Makers' Cooperative
The Film-Makers' Cooperative aka The New American Cinema Group is an artist-run, non-profit organization which was founded in 1962 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Lloyd Michael Williams and other filmmakers to distribute avant-garde films through...
in New York.
1970s
In 1971 he moved to San Francisco. Later he transferred to CalArts and moved to Los Angeles. His teachers at CalArts included John BaldessariJohn Baldessari
John Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...
, Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years...
, Michael Asher (artist), David Antin
David Antin
David Antin is a United States poet and critic. In the late 1960s, Antin began performing extemporaneously, improvising "talk poems" at readings and exhibitions...
and Pat O'Neill
Pat O'Neill
Pat O'Neill is an independent experimental filmmaker and artist who has also worked in the special effects industry. Although his work embraces an extremely wide technical and aesthetic scope, he is perhaps best known for his startling, surrealistic, and humorous film compositions achieved through...
. He worked as studio assistant for John Baldessari
John Baldessari
John Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...
until 1976, when he graduated from CalArts with an MFA
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...
. His first solo exhibition of 16mm films was held at Millennium Film Workshop, New York, and he was included in the group exhibitions “Text & Image” and “Stills” at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
, NY. Other solo exhibitions in the early 1970s included Gallery A-402, CalArts, Valencia and Claire S. Copley Gallery, Los Angeles. Three video works were included in the "Southland Video Anthology”, a group exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art
Long Beach Museum of Art
The Long Beach Museum of Art is a museum located on Ocean Boulevard in the Bluff Park neighborhood of Long Beach, California. The museum occupies the historic 1912 Elizabeth Milbank Anderson house and carriage house and a new two-story pavilion, and includes oceanfront gardens. The museum is open...
.
In 1976 he moved back to New York and worked as a studio assistant for Vito Acconci
Vito Acconci
Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...
. In the following year he took up a teaching post at Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit four-year and postgraduate college specializing in the visual arts. Located in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, MCAD currently enrolls approximately 1,000 students offering curriculum that includes...
. He had a film screening at The Kitchen
The Kitchen
The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City...
, New York and an article on his work was published: “Six Films by Ken Feingold” by David James published in Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA) Journal, LA. He participated in a survey of his 16mm films at the Walker Art Center
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn...
, Minneapolis and exhibited an installation in the Project Room at Artists' Space, New York.
1980s
Feingold's video installation “Sexual Jokes” was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American ArtWhitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
and he received a National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
Visual Art Fellowship, and later a Media Arts Fellowship. Taking a sabbatical from teaching, he travelled India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. He participated in the 1985 and 1989 Whitney Biennial
Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial is a biennale exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973...
and exhibited widely in America and Europe.
His three year project of videotaping in South Asia resulted in the Distance of the Outsider series of video works. Among these were "India Time" (1987) and "Life in Exile" (1988), a series of interviews with Tibetan philosophers and former political prisoners living in exile in India.
In the 1980s he gave lectures at the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, and from 1989 to 1994 he taught on the Visual Arts program at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
.
He received funding from New York State Council on the Arts, The Contemporary Art Television(CAT) Fund, and The McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Artists, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Jerome Foundation, Checkerboard Foundation. In 1989 he received a US/Japan Friendship Commission Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship (through National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
).
1990s
During the 1990s Feingold exhibited in America, Europe and Japan. Nagoya City Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, held a retrospective video screening of his work in 1990. Feingold’s first interactive artwork “The Surprising Spiral” was completed in 1991. It was first exhibited at Kunsthalle Dominikannerkirche, "European Media Art Festival", Osnabrück, Germany and then traveled widely throughout Europe. In the early 1990s he created interactive works with speaking puppets connected to the Internet. His first web projects were REKD and JCJ Junkman. An account of Feingold's interactive and media artwork can be found in SurReal Time Interaction or How to Talk to a Dummy in a Magnetic Mirror? by Erkki Huhtamo, artintact3 (ZKM Karlsruhe).Teaching posts in the 1990s included Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, Cooper Union
Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...
and the School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
(until 1998).
He won the Videonale-Preis at BonnVideonale, Bonn Kunstverein, for his work Un Chien Délicieux and received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts
The New York State Council on the Arts is an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York. It was established in 1960 through a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell , with backing from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and began its work in 1961...
, and the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
.
In 1997 he created the interactive installation “Interior” for InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, “ICC Biennale ‘97” and was awarded the DNP Internet ‘97 Interactive Award; Dai Nippon Printing, Tokyo. The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, commissioned the interactive work “Head” for the exhibition "Alien Intelligence" in 1999. He maintained a studio in Buenos Aires and developed his first interactive conversation works.
In 1999 he was awarded a prize by Fundación Telefónica; Vida 3.0 (Life 3.0), Madrid.
He participated in documenta
Documenta
documenta is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. It was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau which took place in Kassel at that time...
X in a curated program titled "Beware".
2000s
Feingold participated in the 2002 Whitney BiennialWhitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial is a biennale exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973...
, and in 2003 he received a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship (now part of the Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
) and a Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
.
His work "Self Portrait as the Center of the Universe" (2001) was included in the historical overview exhibition “Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance” at the Tate Liverpool in 2004. "The Surprising Spiral" was included in “Masterpieces of Media Art from the ZKM Collection” at the ZKM Karlsruhe in 2005.
ACE Gallery
ACE Gallery
ACE GALLERY is an art gallery with two functioning gallery spaces in Los Angeles, California, United States, with one located on the Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Boulevard and the other also on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills...
, Los Angeles, presented a mid-career survey of his work in 2005-2006.
A selection of his early films and video works was screened at Museum of Modern Art, New York as part of “TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures” in 2006.
A solo show of his installation work "Eros and Thanatos Flying/Falling" (2006)was held at Mejan Labs, Stockholm in 2006, and his work "Box of Men" (2007) was included in "Kempelen - Man in the Machine" at Műscarnok, Budapest and traveled to ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe later that year. "JCJ-Junkman" (1995) was included in "Imagining Media @ ZKM" at the ZKM Karlsruhe in 2009 and "Eros and Thanatos Flying/Falling" was exhibited in the Mediations Biennale in Poznan, Poland in 2010.
Collections
His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern ArtMuseum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
Film Collection, NY; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karslruhe; Kiasma
Kiasma
Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. The museum exhibits the contemporary art collection of the Finnish National Gallery founded in 1990...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; the National Gallery of Canada
National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada , located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was...
.; Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...
, Paris; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San Jose, Costa Rica; Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, among others.