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Stephen Kent (*1985, Pennsylvania, USA) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at Pennsylvania State University in Pennsylvania and Cranbook Academy of Arts, Bloomfield Hills, USA, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in 2013.
Using an array of different materials and techniques, the work of Stephen Kent explores notions of image production and visual resolution. Alongside an attention to psychedelic culture and comparative mythology, Kent investigates cultural codes and the ways in which they manifest in seemingly mundane objects. His lively, dynamic compositions combine photo collages and pixel-like mosaics alongside painted gestures, textiles, clay sculptures, and cast plaster, all skillfully honed to form a humorous language addressing the very foundations of the contemporary world. Considered alongside the rising prevalence of artificial intelligence and its emerging ability to imitate and deceive reality, Kent’s eclectic images offer an astute and playful comment on the future of images and what the world is made of.
Numerous (group) exhibitions include (selection): Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik, HR; Kunsthalle Emden, Germany; CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, ES; Kunstraum Pilsum & Rosarium Winschoten, Ostfriesland Biennale, DE; Alice Folker Galerie, Copenhagen, DK; Acud Macht Neu Gallery, Berlin, DE; HVW8 Gallery, Berlin, DE; Spaced Out, Uckermark, DE; Brücke Museum, Berlin; Cranbook Art Museum, Pennsylvania, US.
Born in Pennsylvania, USA / geboren in Pennsylvania, USA
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany / lebt und arbeitet in Berlin, Deutschland
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, USA
BFA, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA
2024
The Beauty Of Things. Still-life from 1900 till Today, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
ON BORROWED EYES, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany
2023
WORLD WITHIN WORLDS, Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik, Croatia
WORLD WITHIN WORLDS, CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, ES
Ostfriesland Biennale, Kunstraum Pilsum & Rosarium Winschoten
TEXT-ile, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin
SPOT ON: Stephen Kent “The Art of Living”, Haverkampf Galerie Berlin
’20/20 Gallery Swap’, Alice Folker Galerie, Copenhagen, DK
‘Flow my Tears’, Acud Macht Neu Gallery, Berlin, GER
Le Lucky’, HVW8 Gallery, Berlin, GER
‚Die Demut der Dinge‘, curated by PSM Gallery, Spaced Out, Uckermark, GER (Solo)
‘Daydreamers. Encounter with Stephen Kent and Elisa Rusca’, LOCATION III, Berlin, DE
‘August’, Philipp Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin, DE
‘The Garden Bridge’, curated by Kinderhook & Caracas, Brücke Museum, Berlin, DE
‘Were we never fish’, with Sophie Erlund, The Institute for Endotic Research, Berlin, DE
‘We Must Dance Sing and Drum Ourselves out of the Circumstances into which We Have Fallen’, Philipp Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin (Solo exhibition)
‘May You Live in Interesting Times’, curated by Goodweather Gallery, High Tide, Philadelphia
‘At the Mercy of’, Lvl3, Chicago
‘Daydreamers.Biz’
‘False Friends’, Kulturschöpfer, Berlin (2 person exhibition with Andrew Thomas Perry)
‘Social Geometrism’, Reinbeckhallen, Berlin
‘Rites de Passage’, Philipp Haverkampf Gallery, Berlin
‘Never Shown on Purpose’, Circle 1 Platform for Art and Culture, Berlin
‘I’m Jack of all Trades, We’ll be Alright’, Elephant Kunsthall, Lillehammer, NO (Solo)
‘Dansinit’, Studio Hasenheide, Berlin
‘Art Helsinki’ with Elephant Kunsthall, Helsinki, FI
‘Live on the Layers not on the Litter’, Other Projects / Ashley, Berlin
‘Papers’, Das Giftraum, Berlin
‘Codes & Signals’, Tête, Berlin, DE ‘Vox IX’, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA
Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Pennsylvania, USA
‘Used To’, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Center of Community Programs, Deer Isle, USA
‘Smokem if you Gottem’ Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
‘Pickled Eggs’ (with Nathan Ellefson), Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists Residency, Saugatuck, USA
‘Art in the Great Recessions’, Pterodactyl, Philadelphia, USA
‘Project Network’ Grammerhaus International Museum of Ceramics, DK
‘One Degree of Seperation’ Photo Studio, Philadelphia, USA
‘Pulp Culture’ East Carolina University, Greenville, USA
‘I’m Jack of all Trades’ / 9 Notes, www.tsnok.se, (Online Publications with Jens Soneyrd)
‘No Joke and the Dueling Solipsisms’, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Published Review)
Center for Contemporary Art Russia, St. Petersburg
Centre of Contemporary Art Andratx, Majorca, ES
Mercedes Benz Financial Services Emerging Artist Award Finalist
Fellowship Student, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency
Larson Grant, Co-Founder of Vessel and Page Projects
Merit Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Merit Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Lighton International Artist Exchange Program Grant Recipient through Kansas City Arts Coalition to Attend Project Network Symposium at the International Ceramics Research Center at Guldagergaard, DK
Haystack Professional Development Grant
Frans Whildenhain Scholarship to Attend Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Kiki Smith Scholarship Award Recipient through Pennsylvania State University to Attend Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
