KRIS MARTIN
b. 1972, BelgiumKris Martin was born in 1972 and is based in Ghent, Belgium. Solo shows include Every Day of the Weak, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn; Theseustempel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; MANDI, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (all 2012), The Magnificent Seven, CCA Wattis, San Francisco (2011); FESTUM, White Cube, London; T.Y.F.F.S.H., K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (both 2010); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2009); Marc Foxx, Los Angeles (2008); P.S.1, MoMA, New York (2007); Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf (2007) and Johann König, Berlin (2006).
Group shows include A House of Leaves – First Movement, David Roberts Art Foundation, London ; Goldrausch, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Im Schein des Unendlichen – Romantik und Gegenwart, Altana Kulturstiftung im Sinclairhaus, Bad Homburg, Cartographies, Fundación la Caixa, Barceolona, Madrid (all 2012); Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011); Touched 6th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2010); Let’s Dance, MACVAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (2010); Earth: Art of a Contemporary World Royal Academy of Art, London (2009); Morality Witte de With Centre, Rotterdam (2009); The Quick & the Dead Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (2009); Traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008); Passengers, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2007); Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London (2007) and Of Mice and Men: 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2006).
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