Mike Kelley was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1954, and currently works and lives in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from the University of Michigan and MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Kelley has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, recently at WIELS Centre d'Art Contemporain, Brussels (2008), Musée du Louvre, Paris (2006), the Tate Liverpool (2004), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1993); he has been included in various group exhibitions, such as Life on Mars: the 2008 Carnegie International and most familiarly at the third Yokohama Triennale (2008). He will be participating in Performa 09 in New York with a newly commissioned project.

Mike Kelley

Publications List
Born in 1954 in Detroit, Michigan.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Education
1976
BFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1978
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Solo Exhibitions
2009
"Photographs/Sculptures" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"A Voyage of Growth and Discovery" with Mike Smith, Sculpture Center, Long Island (US) 2008 "Mike Kelley - Educational Complex Onwards: 1995 - 2008" WIELS Centrum voor Hedendaagse, Brussels (BE) 2007
"Memory Ware Flats" Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY (US)
"Hermaphrodite Drawings" Gagosian Gallery (Britannia Street), London (UK)
"Kandors" Jablonka Galerie, Berlin (DE)
"Kandor Con 2000" Ackerstrasse, Berlin (DE) 2006 "Mike Kelley: Profondeurs Vertes" Le Louvre, Paris (FR)
"Mike Kelley: Liquid Diet and Related Works" Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris (FR)
"Mike Kelley" Medium, St. Bathélemy, French West Indies 2005 "Day Is Done" Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (US) 2004 "Mike Kelley - The Uncanny" The Tate Liverpool, London (UK); MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna (AT), (cat.)