Michael Kessler was born in 1954 in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
He received a B.F.A. degree from Kutztown University.
He currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2001 Bonfoey, Cleveland, Ohio
2001 EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000 Klein Artworks: Chicago, Illinois
1999 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, New York
1999 Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
1999 Mirmar Gallery: Sarasota, Florida
1999 Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1998 Bemis Center of Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
1998 Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1997 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, New York
1997 Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
1997 Cline Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, New York
1996 Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1995 Galleri Flesser, Helsingborg, Sweden
1995 Bemis Center of Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
1995 Art Now Gallery, Gothenberg, Sweden
1995 Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
1994 Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
1994 Miller Gallery; Coral Gables, Florida
1994 Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1994 Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, New York
1994 Concept Art Gallery; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1993 Art Now Gallery; Goteborg, Sweden
1993 Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1992 Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
1992 Allentown Art Museum; Allentown, Pennsylvania
1992 Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, New York
1992 Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1992 Mir Mar Gallery; Sarasota, Florida
1991 Art Now Gallery; Goteborg, Sweden
1990 Nina Freudenheim Gallery; Buffalo, New York
1990 Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
1990 Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1990 Jack Tilton Gallery; New York, New York
1989 Art Now Gallery; Goteborg, Sweden
1988 Jack Tilton Gallery; New York, New York
1987 Barbara Krakow Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts
1987 Jack Tilton Gallery; New York, New York
1986 Art Now Gallery; Goteborg, Sweden
1986 Fabian Carosson Gallery; London, England
1986 Wolff Gallery, New York, New York
1984 Jack Tilton Gallery; New York, New York
1983 Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2001 Introductions 2001, Butters Gallery,Ltd., Portland, OR
2000 Pink and Red, Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 Group Show, Miller Gallery, Miami, Florida
2000 Gallery Artists, Art Now Gallery, Gothenborg, Sweden
1999 After Nature II, Trevor Richardson, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts
1999 Works on Paper, Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1999 Gallery Artists, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
1998 Michael Kessler and Stephanie Weber, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
1998 Gallery Artists, Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1998 A Few Large Paintings, Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
1997 Gallery Artists, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1997 Exquisite Surfaces, Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
1997 Gallery Artists, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
1996 Cuenca Bienal, Quito and Guayaqiul, Equador/Phoenix Art Museum, David Rubin, Curator of Contemporary Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
1995 Directors Choice, Horwitch/Lewallen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995 Gallery Artists, Klein Artworks, Chicago, Illinois
1995 Michael Kessler/James Bruss, Bemis Center for Contemporary arts, Omaha, Nebraska
1993 About Nature, Cleveland Center for Contemporary art, Cleveland, Ohio, curated by David Rubin Curator of Contemporary Art, C.C.C.A.
1991 Vital Forces, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York
1991 Romantic Abstraction, American Academy in Rome, Italy
1991 Drawings and Poems: Michael Kessler and John Yau; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1990 Five American artists; Galerie D’Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1990 Inner Natures: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1989 Four Painters, Flint Institute of Arts; Flint, Michigan
1988 Pennsylvania Perspectives; Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1988 Recent Acquisitions; Allentwon Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1988 More Than Meets the Eye; Galleria Carini, Florence, Italy
1985 More Than Meets the Eye; Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, England
1985 Awards in the Visual Arts-Five; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
1985 Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
1984 New York-Outside New York; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
1984 Museum of Art Association, Monterey, California; Sunrise Museums, Charleston West Virginia
1983 Five Contemporary Artists; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1983 Selections 22; The Drawing Center, New York, New York
1980 In and Out of New York, White Columns, New York, New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
After Nature II, Trevor Richardson-Curator, November 1999 Herter Art Gallery University of Massachusetts, Amherst. An Exhibition of Paintings by: Gregory Amenoff, Bill Jensen, Michael Kessler, Rebecca Perdum, Katherine Porter
Seidel, Miriam, “Michael Kessler at Schmidt/Dean and Little john Contemporary”, Art In America, July 1997
Ebony, David, “Michael Kessler at Littlejohn Contemporary, New York City, ArtNet Magazine, April 1997
McCloud, Kathleen, “A Capricious Artistic Journey Beginning With Paint”, Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, October 3, 1997
Victor M. Cassidy, ArtNet Magazine, www.artnet.com/home., Forty to Fifty Layers
Ebony, David, ArtNet Magazine, www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/ebony/ David Ebony’s New York Top Ten, Michael Kessler at Littlejohn Contemporary, NY 1997
Altabe, Joan “Kessler’s Subtle Paintings Reveal depth”, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, October 11, 1996
Yellin Outwater, Myra, “Move to Santa Fe Colors Michael Kessler’s Paintings”, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1996
Aguilar, Robert, “A Mystical Versión of the Ecology”, El Comercio, Cuence, Ecuador, 1996
Elusive Nature, 1996 Cuenca Bienal of Painting, Quito and Guayaquiul Equador, Curated by David Rubin, Curator of Contemporary Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Melrod, George, “Openings”, Art and Antiques, November 1995, page 40
Holg, Garrett, “Kessler at Klein-Chicago”, Artnews, April, 1994, page 177
Kohen, Helen, “Michael Kessler’s Roman Geometry”, Miami Herald, April 6, 1994
Wiens, Ann, “Kessler at Klein-Chicago”, New Art Examiner, May, 1994, pg 44
McCracken, David, “Year In Italy Catapults Kessler’s Work”. Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1992
McNear, Sarah, “Transcendental Spaces”, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1992
Noll, Anna, “Vital Forces: Nature in Contemporary Abstraction”, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, Yew York, 1991
Sozanski, Edward, “Michael Kessler at Schmidt/Dean Gallery, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 16, 1991
Doll, Nancy, “Inner Natures, Four Contemporary Artists:” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California 1990
King, Elaine A. “Nature in the Age of Masscult”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York, 1990
Rubin, David S., “The Paintings of Michael Kessler: Preserving Nature’s Umbilical Cord”, Klein Artworks, Chicago, Illinois, 1990
Stein, Judith, “Michael Kessler: Paintings Nina”, Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1990
Carter, Holland, “Michael Kessler”, ArtNews, December 1989
Yau, John, “Four Painters: Flint Institute of Arts”, Flint, Michigan, 1989
Nature in Evolution; The Scandinavian Works; Art Now Gallery, Goteborg, Sweden, 1989
Cohen, Ronnie, “Michael Kessler”, Art Forum, November 1989
Rice, Robin, “Cool Slate and Weathered Wood”, The Philadelphia City Paper, March 16, 1989
Sozanski, Edward, “On Galleries”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 4, 1989
Wooster, Ann Sargent, “Michael Kessler”, Arts Magazine 65, December 1989
Cyphers, Peggy, Arts Magazine 65, January, 1989
Newhall, Edith, “Galleries”, New York Magazine, September 1989
Yau, John, “Michael Kessler’s View of the World”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York, 1988
Carrier, David, “Michael Kessler: A Painter of Nature in the Era of Postmodernist Art”, Arts Magazine, May 1988
Narrett, Eugene, “Michael Kessler”, New Art Examiner,, April 1987
Stapen, Nancy, “Michael Kessler”, Artforum,, April 1987
Wineberg, Jonathan, “Michael Kessler”, Art In America, November 1987
Carrier, David, “Michael Kessler”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York, 1987
Hall, Jacqueline, “Arts Flourish Southside New York”, The Columbus Dispatch, September 21, 1986
Zimmer, William, “Winners on Parade at the Newberger”, The New York Times, May 11, 1986, Westchester Section
Gambrel, Jamey, “Awards in the Visual Arts 5”, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1986
Yau, John, “After The Fall”, Fabian Carlson Gallery, London, England, 1986
Bohn-Duchen, Monica, “Nine Painters from New York”, Flash Art, October-November, 1985
Larson, Kay, “Fresh Faces for Summer”, New York Magazine, 1985
Raynor, Vivian, “Art; New York, an Anthology at the New Museum”, The New York Times, June 22, 1985
Schwabsky, Barry, “Exotica: A Different World”, Arts Magazine, March 1985
Yau, John, “Michael Kessler”, Artforum, February 1985
Yau, John, “Michael Kessler’s Drawings; Gesture at Image”, Sulfer, December 1985
Rifkin, Ned, New Work: New York/Outside New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Made in Philadelphia 6; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1984
Warren, Ron, “Michael Kessler at Jack Tilton Gallery”, Arts Magazine, summer 1984
Katik, Charlotta, “Landscapes and Imagery: Paintings and Drawings by Michael Kessler”; Niagara University, Niagara Falls, New York, 1983
Glueck, Grace, “Art-One Man’s Biennial Assemblies 102 Artists”, The New York Times, April 15, 1983
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1999/2000 Collage of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993/1995 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1992/1993 Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas
Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, New York
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, Michigan
Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
Pfizer Inc, New York, New York
Pepsico, Camden, New Jersey
Price Waterhouse, Washington, DC
Prudential Insurance Co., Newark, New Jersey
Regent Hotel, Hong Kong
Exxon, Huston, Texas
Comcast, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Deloitte & Touche, Atlanta, Georgia
Austin Company, Cleveland, Ohio
El Passo Energy, Huston, Texas
Exxon Moble, Huston, Texas
Ericsson, Gothengerg, Sweden
American Financial Group, NYC
First Union Bank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Compaq Computer, Huston, Texas
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, Pennsylvania
Bank of Boston, Boston
Bank of Japan, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Northwest Airlines, St. Paul, Minnesota
Heller Financial, Chicago, Illinois
Rubenstein Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Phillips Service, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Freemarkets, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Buchanan Ingersoll, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Gateway Towers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Morgan, Lewis, Bockius, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Tokio Marine Management, NYC
Jacobson/Sylvester, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Tyson Corner, NYC
Vanguard group, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Lincoln Financial Group, Pennsylvania
Warten School of Business, Pennsylvania
Duff & Phelps, Chicago, Illinois
Penton Media, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio
Lincoln Financial Group, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, Missouri
Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania
Scimed Life Systems, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sears Merchandise Group, Hoffman Estates, Illinois
SOHIO, Cleveland, Ohio
Vector Securities, Deerfield, Illinois
The St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, Minnesota
Hart Senate Building, Senator Specter’s Office, Washington, DC
Voyageur Fund Managers, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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