Biography
John Kelsey is a New York-based writer, co-founder of the gallery Reena Spaulings Fine Art and a member of the artists collective Bernadette Corporation.
Solo Exhibitions
2021
“The Pea Stakers”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
2016
Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
2014
“The Canyons”, Boltenstern.Raum, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2013
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Group Exhibitions
2024
“Yours Truly”, Nahmad Contemporary, New York
2023
“What Kind of Us Does Painting Need”, MadIn Gallery, Shanghai
2022
“Watercolors, Chapter II”, Weiss Falk, Basel
“Watercolors, Chapter II”, Weiss Falk, Zurich
2021
“It’s not what you think it is”, Tramps, New York
“The Sun Also Rises”, Jenny’s, Los Angeles
“Stop painting”, curated by Peter Fischli, Prada Foundation, Venice
2020
“I Put A Spell On You: On Artist Collaborations”, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah
“No Dandy, No Fun”, Kunsthalle Bern
2019
“Vom Leben in Industrielandschaften”, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren
2017
“Breakfast All Day”, Munchees, Reading
2016
“…hounded by external events…”, Maureen Paley, London
“Landscapes”, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
2015
“Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism”, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris / Berlin
“Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“∞”, Edouard Montassut, Paris
2014
“Significant Others (I Am Small, It’s The Pictures That Got Big)”, High Art, Paris
“Batalhão de Telegrafistas”, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo
“New Dawn”, Silberkuppe, Berlin
“The Printed Room - read the room/you’ve go to”, SALTS, Birsfelden
2013
Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
“La Poussiere de Soleils”, Real Fine Arts, New York (curated by Olivia Shao)
2012
Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum, New York
2011
“Quodlibet III”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
“After Shelley Duvall ’72 (Frogs on the High Line)”, Maccarone Gallery, New York
2010
Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
2009
“Frottage”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2008
Hermann’s Grid, Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin
2006
“…ical Krbbr Prdly Prsnts Gart Jas, Jon Klsy, Josf Stra”, Portikus, Frankfurt a.M.