Kenneth Feingold (born 1952 in USA) is a contemporary American artist based in

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. He has been exhibiting his work in video, drawing, film, sculpture, photography, and installations since 1974. He has received a

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(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

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, NY;

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, Paris;

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, the

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, New York, among others.

Life and work

Feingold was born in

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, in 1952.

1970s

He studied at

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from 1970 through 1971, making experimental

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s and film installations and worked at

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in New York. While attending Antioch, Feingold studied with and was the Teaching Assistant for

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. In late 1971 he left Antioch and moved to San Francisco. Later he transferred to

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, and moved to Los Angeles. He worked as studio assistant for

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until 1976. He graduated from CalArts with both

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and

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degrees. 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

, 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

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. In 1976 he moved back to New York and worked as a studio assistant for

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. In the following year he took up a teaching post at

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. 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

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, 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

and he received a

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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

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and exhibited widely in America and Europe. His video artworks "5dim/MIND" and "The Double" were acquired for the permanent collection of the

, New York. He returned to Asia in 1985, continuing his work in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and India. 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.

1990s

Feingold received a Fellowship from the Japan/US Friendship Commission and took up an extended residency in Tokyo in 1990. During the 1990s Feingold exhibited in the US, Europe, Korea, 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). He won the Videonale-Preis at BonnVideonale, Bonn Kunstverein, for his work ''Un Chien Délicieux''. 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. His video work "Un Chien Délicieux" was included in

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X, Kassel, as part of a curated program titled "Beware: In Portraying the Phantom You Become One" ("Vorsicht! Wer Phantom Spielt wird selbst eins", 1997). This project was also exhibited in Paris as "Prends garde! A jouer au fantôme, on le devient (Musée National d'Art Moderne /

, 1997)".

2000s

Feingold participated in the 2002

, and in 2003 he received a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship ) and a

. 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.

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, 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. "Head" (1999) was included in "VIDA 1999-2012", Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid in 2012-2013 and in "Kiasma Hits" at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2013-2014. "Lantern" was included in "thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art" at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2014 The book "KEN FEINGOLD: Figures of Speech", a compilation of essays on Feingold's artwork by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Ken Feingold, Errki Huhtamo, Edward Shanken, and Ewa Wójtowicz, published 2015 by Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk as part of their "Art + Science" series.

Collections

His works are held in the collections of the

, NY; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karslruhe;

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; the

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, Paris;

Hamburger Kunsthalle The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the largest art museums in the country. It consists of three connected buildings, dating from 1869 (main building), 1921 (Kuppelsaal) and ...

, Hamburg; Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San Jose, Costa Rica;

Fortuny Museum The Museo Fortuny or Fortuny Museum is an art museum in San Marco, in central Venice, Italy. The museum is housed in the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei, now often known as Palazzo Fortuny, where Mariano Fortuny (1871–1949) had a studio in the late ni ...

, Venice; Whitney Museum of American Art among others.

References

External links

Official websiteInterview with the artist
{{DEFAULTSORT:Feingold, Kenneth 1952 births Living people American installation artists American conceptual artists New media artists American video artists Antioch College alumni