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Kyle Thurman

The multifaceted work of Kyle Thurman examines creative decision, constructive process and industrial production. Reclaiming the materials, forms and concepts of commercially produced artificiality, most notably, wind chimes, dyed flowers and cardboard shipping boxes, Thurman eliminates the function of each object and reconfigures its primary components. In one such project, the artist strips the dye from Deli-bought flowers and uses the pigment and bare petals to create stencil-like compositions on canvas.


Thurman has participated in a number of group exhibitions including Bodega, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Tucson, Printed Matter, New York, Laurel Gitlen, New York, and Fluxia, Milan, Italy, among others. He has had solo shows at Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium, Room East, New York, and Off Vendome, Dusseldorf, Germany. 

Born 1986
Hometown West Chester, Pennsylvania
Lives and Works New York, New York
Education
Candidate for MFA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA, 2016
Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2012
BA (Visual Arts and Film Studies), Columbia University, New York, 2009
Representing Galleries

Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

Articles

Kyle Thurman - Why I Draw
Kyle Thurman - Why I Draw

Careers advisers suggested this American artist should become a soldier or an athlete. In response, he worked those roles into drawings of normative masculinity

Acquire These 8 Artworks by Whitney Biennial Artists
Acquire These 8 Artworks by Whitney Biennial Artists

Available on Artspace: works by Korakrit Arunanondchai, Kyle Thurman, Lucas Blalock, Martine Syms, Nicole Eisenman, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Simone Leigh, and Wangechi Mutu.

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