Kahn & Selesnick
Kahn: New York, United States, 1964 / Selesnick: London, England, 1964
Personal Information and Awards:
BFAs from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. 1986
1987 New Jersey State Council for the Arts Grant. 1994 Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Provincetown, Ma.
1995 Provincetown Arts Council Grant
2000 Artists in Residence, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Ma.
2001 Djerassi Foundation Residency, Woodside, Ca.
2002 Artists in Residence, Princeton Atelier, Princeton University, NJ
2003 New York Book Show, best photography book of
2002 for "Scotlandfuturebog"
2006 NASA commission to shoot a panorama on Mars
2007 Green Leaf Award, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
2008 AICA Best Exhibition Award, Boston, MA
2009 Leopold Godowsky Award, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Individual Exhibitions
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Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago
Apollo Procephies & Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea, Carroll & Sons Gallery, Boston
Kahn and Selesnick Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Eisbergfreistadt & Other Fictions Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eisbergfreistadt Overbeck-Gesellschaft Museum, Lübeck, Germany
Eisbergfreistadt World’s End Contemporary, London, UK
Eisbergfreistadt DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Ma.
Eisbergfreistadt, Robishcon Gallery, Denver, CO
Eisbergfreistadt, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Eisbergfreistadt & Apollo Prophecies, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Eisbergfreistadt & Apollo Prophecies, Untitled [ArtSpace], Oklahoma City, OK
Eisbergfreistadt, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago
The Apollo Prophecies, Hiestand Gallery of Miami University, Ohio
Eisbergfreistadt, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Eisbergfreistadt, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale
Kahn & Selesnick: A Ten Year Retrospective, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels
Eisbergfreistadt, Pepper Gallery,Boston
Eisbergfreistadt, Irvine Contemporary, Washington DC
Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland, "The Art of Kahn and Selesnick" Jan - Mar
Robischon Gallery, Denver CO, "10 Years of Panoramas and Artifacts, a Kahn / Selesnick retrospective, April-May.
Lisa Sette Gallery Scottsdale, Ar "The Apollo Prophecies" Nov-Dec
Carl Hammer Gallery Chicago "The Apollo Prophecies" Nov-Dec
Martin Irvine Contemporary Art Washington DC "The Apollo Prophecies" Oct.
Berta Walker Gallery Provincetown, "Nomadischespuppetheater" Ma. Aug-Sept
Paul Kopeikan Gallery Los Angeles "The Apollo Prophecies" Jan-Feb
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York "The Apollo Prophecies" Oct-Dec
DNA Gallery Provincetown, Ma. "The Apollo Prophecies" August
Pepper Gallery Boston, Ma. "Apollo: a prophecy" April-May
Focus Gallery London, U.K. "City of Salt" Oct-Nov
Yancey Richardson Gallery New York. "City of Salt" May-July
Carl Hammer Gallery Chicago. "City of Salt" Oct-Nov
Yancey Richardson Gallery New York. "Scotlandfuturebog" Sept-Oct
Paul Kopeikan Gallery Los Angeles. "City of Salt" Sept-Oct
Pepper Gallery Boston, Ma. "City of Salt" March-April
Lisa Sette Gallery Scottsdale, Arizona. "City of Salt" Jan-Feb
DNA Gallery Provincetown, Ma. "City of Salt" July-August
Carrie Haddad Gallery Hudson, NY. "Scotlandfuturebog" Jan-Feb.
Palo Alto Arts Center Palo Alto, Ca. "The REC, Past-Future" Sept-Dec.
DNA Gallery Provincetown, Ma. "Schottensumpfkunftig" July.
Lisa Sette Gallery Scottsdale, Arizona. "Past and Future" March-April
David Beitzel Gallery New York. "Transmissions from the Schottensumpfkumpftig (Scotlandfuturebog)" Febuary-March
Pepper Gallery Boston, Ma. "Schottensumpfkunftig" Dec. - Jan. 2000
Paul Kopeikin Gallery Los Angeles. "The Circular River: the Siberian Expeditions of 1944-46" Oct. - Nov.
Monique Knowlton New York. "The Circular River" October - January
Eli Marsh Gallery Amherst College, Amherst, Ma. "The Circular River" Oct.
Pepper Gallery Boston, Ma. "The Circular River" April-June
Monique Knowlton New York. "The Pavillion of the Greenman" Oct-Nov.
Monique Knowlton New York. "The Journals of Peter Hesselbach" March-April
Gallery Camino Real Boca Raton, Fl. "Tent of the Mesmer" March-May
Pepper Gallery "The Photographic Journals of Peter Hesselbach" Dec-Jan
Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery Kent, Ct. "Tent of the Mesmer" Sept-Oct.
East End Gallery "The Golden Age of Devonshire Semaphore: Royal
Excavation Corps Signal Flag Manouevres 1934-36" September.
Monique Knowlton "The Roodloft of the Drunken Beekeeper" April-May.
East End Gallery "Zelt der Biscuit Mench" July.
Hudson Walker Gallery Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Ma. "Chapel dedicated to the Human Head", an installation of a work in progress. March.
Gallery Camino Real "Collabrative Paintings" Dec-Jan 1994-95.
Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery "The Eskimo Paintings" Sept-Oct.
East End Gallery "The Biscuit Triptychs" July.
Forum Gallery New York. "Bog Pastries and Bread Heads from the Archives of the Royal Excavation Corps" September.
East End Gallery "Flagman Artefacts" August.
East End Gallery July.
Klein Art Gallery Woodstock, NY.
The Bergen County Museum of Arts and Sciences Paramus, NJ. "A Pictish Bedchamber of the 9th Century" August 1989.
The Royal Photographic Society Bath, England. June-July 1988. |
Selected Group Exhibitions
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Saturnalia, Irvine Contemporary, Washington DC
The Nature of Cities, United Nations Pavillion, Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
2009 Godowsky Award Winners, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Ma
Miroirs d’Orients, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France
Art on the Moon, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Such Great Heights,Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, NY
Melting Ice, Hot Topic,Field Museum,Chicago, IL
Melting Ice, Hot Topic, Ministry of Culture, Monaco
Eco-Sophia, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno Nevada
Melting Ice, Hot Topic, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
Melting Ice, Hot Topic, Bozar Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Art from NASA’s Collection The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Rare Essence, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Carrie Haddad Gallery,Hudson NY "The Twilight Zone" March
Hudson Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Ma, Fellows 1994-95. May
Kohler Arts Center Sheboygan, Wi. "Dreamscapes" Woodstock Center for Photography Woodstock, NY. "Triennial"
Lehman College Art Gallery New York City. "The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Enviroment" Arnot Museum of Art Elmira, NY. "Re-presenting Representation VI" April- August.
Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, Ca. "First Photographs: Henry Fox Talbot and the Birth of Photography" March-June
Triple Candie New York. "Rumors of War: A Contemporary Exhibition Inspired by the Art of Jacob Lawrence" curated by Franklin Sirmans. Dec 01- Jan 02
Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn, NY. "Digital: Printmaking Now" June-Sept.
Cape Cod Museum of Art Dennis, Ma. "Small Works by Fellows of the Fine Arts Work Center 1985-2000" July-Sept
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Wilmington, DE. "Photo-Synthesis: Recent Developments in Contemporary Photography" April-July
Carl Hammer Gallery Chicago, IL. "Of Dreams and Dreamers: Art as a Vehicle of Escape." Sept-Oct
Gallery Camino Real Boca Raton, Fl. "Photo-Synthesis: Recent Developments in Contemporary Photography" Jan-Feb
David Winton Bell Gallery Brown University, Providence, R.I. "False Witness: Joan Fontcuberta Sputnik and Kahn/Selesnick Scotlandfuturebog, with a lecture by David Wilson, director of the Museum of Jurassic Technology" Jan-March
The Art Museum Florida International University, Miami. "American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiousities" Sept-Nov
Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy, Andover, Ma. "Referencing the Past: Six Contemporary Artists: Kahn/Selesnick, John O'Reilly, George Condo, David McGee, and Laurie Hogan" Sept-Jan 2000.
Camera Works San Francisco, Ca. "Rattling the Frame, 1974-1999" Oct-Nov.
Photographic Resource Center Boston University. "Dramatis Personae: A look at role-playing and narrative in contemporary photography" Feb-March 1999.
National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC "Faces of Time: 75 years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits" March-August.
Addison Gallery of American Art Andover, Ma. "Expanded Visions: the Panoramic Photograph" Jan-April.
The Brush Art Gallery Lowell, Ma. "SELF-AMUSED: The Contemporary Artistas Observer and Observed" Feb-March.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Lincoln, Ma. "10 Artists/10 Visions"
Carrie Haddad Gallery Hudson, NY. "Provincetown in Hudson" Jan-Feb.
Koplin Gallery Los Angeles. December.
Monique Knowlton "Inaugural Group Show" Sept-Oct. Drerup Gallery Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH. "1994-95 Visual Arts Fellows from the Fine Arts Work Center" Nov-Jan 1994-95.
Boston Center for the Arts Boston. "Fantasically Real" April-May.
Pepper Gallery Boston. "Spirits Unveiled" Sept-Oct.
Robert Brown Gallery Washington DC. "Giacometti and Others" Dec-Jan 1994
Commune de Sirmione Lake Garda, Italy. Outdoor Installation. August.
Provincetown Art Association an dMuseum Provincetown, Ma. "Four Young Artists Here and New" May-June.
The Bergen County Museum of Arts and Sciences Paramus, NJ. "The Six" - a show of Bergen County's top six fellowship winners, curated by Barbara Haskell, chief curator of the Whitney Museum of Art. 1988. |
Bibliography:
Documentaries:
30 minute interview UC Boulder Dept of Fine Arts for Public Access TV. 2006.
30 minute Profile and Interview VOOM! HDTV 2005 Apollo Prophecies
15 minute Profile and Interview Boston Arts WGBH TV and Art Close Up PBS TV, . first aired May 14, 2003, national premiere July 6, 2003. "City of Salt"
Books:
The Apollo Prophecies, Aperture Press, monograph, Nov 2006
City of Salt, Monograph. Aperture Press, September 2005
Scotlandfuturebog monograph, introduction by Ben Marcus. Aperture Press, 2000
Reproductions and text, "The Apollo Prophecies" C Magazine November 2005
Colour reproductions, Photography Past Forward: Aperture at 50 book, with an introduction by R.H.Cravens. Back cover, page 172. Aperture Press, 2002.
Fredrick S. Voss, Faces of Time: 75 years of Time Magazine cover. Portraits pgs. 126-27 and cover. Little Brown 1998
Magazines:
Photography Quarterly fall 2005
Reproductions Sides Magazine pgs 1-2, September 2005
Color Reproductions "Findings" Harper's Magazine pg. 100, July 2005
Caroline Bagenal, "Kahn/Selesnick: The Apollo Prophecies" Art New England Oct 2004
David Haycock "The Extraordinary Findings of Kahn/Selesnick and the Royal Excavation Corps" Wraparound cover and pages 26-35, spring 2004
Photographs, "Next Stop, Shangri-La: an Imaginary Photographic Assignment by Collaborative Artists Kahn and Selesnick for the Men's Fashion of the Times " The New York Times Magazine pgs. 122-133, Sept. 21, 2003
Jessica Dawson "Reflecting on a Cultural Divide" The Washington Post Oct 6, 2005
The Stamp Project, Cabinet Magazine pgs 63-65. Fall 2002 issue.
Reproductions and text Provincetown Arts Magazine 2002 issue.
Miles Unger, "Head Games" Boston Magazine April 2002
Rich McKown, "Small works from the Fine Arts Work Center at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts" Art New England Dec 2001
Colour reproductions, "Readings" Harper's Magazine pg. 38, April 2000
Lucy R. Lippard, "Moments of Grace: Spirit in the American Landscape" Aperture pgs. 61, 66-67. Winter 1998
Matt Unger, "Kahn and Selesnick at Pepper" Art News pg. 163. July 1998
Grady Turner, "Kahn / Selesnick at Monique Knowlton" Art in America pg. 130. November 1997
Colour reproductions Harper's Magazine June 1996.
Front cover and inner gatefold Time Magazine (Man of the Year Issue, Pope John Paul II) pgs. 48-50 Dec. 26, 1994.
K.C. Myers, "Trust: the Collaberation of Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick" Provincetown Arts pgs. 91-93. Summer 1993
Ann Wilson-Lloyd, "Gorillas in the Dunes: a Field Report from Provincetown" Provincetown Arts pg. 42. Summer 1992
Ann Wilson-Lloyd, "Young Artists, Here & New" Art New England pg. 57. May 1991
Newspaper Reviews
The Denver Post May 20th, 2006
The Chicago Tribune Nov 18th 2005
Los Angeles Times Jan, 2005
Cate McQuaid, "A Lunar Extravaganza" The Boston Globe page C16, May 28, 2004
Sarah Douglas "Kahn/Selesnick at Yancey Richardson Gallery" The Art Newspaper June 2003
Vince Alletti, "More, More, More: the best photography books of 2002" Village Voice Feb. 3, 2003
Leah Ollman, "Power of Illusion and Desire" The Los Angeles Times Oct. 19, 2002
Cate McQuaid, "Self Portraits of the Artist as a Man facing Mortality" The Boston Globe April 19, 2002
Miles Unger, "Head Games" Boston Magazine April 2002 Rich McKown, "Small works from the Fine Arts Work Center at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts" Art New England Dec 2001
Cate McQuaid, "Putting Provincetown in a poignant new light" The Boston Globe Aug. 4, 2001
Linda L. Fenoff, "Photographer's Lenses not bogged down by reality" The Independent pg. 24, Jan. 26, 2001
Bill Van Siclen, "At the Bell Gallery, reality keeps slipping away" The Providence Journal pg. 28, Feb 15-19, 2001
Roberta Smith, "Kahn/Selesnick at Beitzel Gallery" The New York Times March 10, 2000
Miles Unger, "Tales of Intrigue for a Museum of Unnatural History" The New York Times Arts and Leisure pgs. 35 and 38, Feb. 6, 2000
Kate McQuaid, "Funny Phantasm, Emotional Edges, & Realms of Beauty" The Boston Globe Dec. 30, 1999
Leah Ollman, "A Provocative Trek into Pseudo-History" Los Angeles Times pg. F28, Nov. 12,1999
Daniel Pinchbeck, "Boy's own adventure through Siberia" The Art Newspaper pg. 72, November 1998.
Vince Aletti, "Choices: Art" Village Voice pg. 72. December 1, 1998.
Ken Johnson, "Kahn and Selesnick at Monique Knowlton" The New York Times pg. 32 November 27, 1998.
Christa Worthington, "Mining the Relics of Journeys Past" The New York Times pg. 45. November 22, 1998.
Kate McQuaid, "Duo Makes Art by Faking History" The Boston Globe pgs. C1, C4. May 9, 1998
Kate McQuaid, "Kahn and Selesnick at the East End Gallery" The Boston Globe August 14, 1997.
Aletti, "Choices: Art" Village Voice pg. 12. April 15, 1997.
Joanne Silver, "Visions Exhibit draws a perfect 10" The Boston Herald pgs. 14-15 June 20, 1997.
Souren Melikian, "In Another Orbit" International Herald Tribune pg. 6 Oct 5, 1996
Roberta Smith, "Kahn and Selesnick at Monique Knowlton" The New York Times pg. 55 May 17, 1996.
Vivian Raynor, "In Kent, Differing Images and Books as Endangered Species" The New York Times pg. 20 May 14, 1995.
Nancy Stapen, "The Bold Meets the Soulful on Newbury St." The Boston Globe pg. 57 Sept. 29, 1994
Public and Private Collections:
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Boston Public Library
Beinecke Library, Yale University
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Ma.
Cape Cod Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Fogg Museum of Art, Boston
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
University of Colorado Museum of Art
Bergen County Museum of Arts and Sciences, Paramus NJ
Washington Convention Center
Miller, Anderson, and Sherrard Corporate HQ, Philadelphia
International Finance Corporation
Wellington Management Corporation
Fidelity Corporation
World Bank Corporation
Estee Lauder Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Time Magazine
Aperture Magazine
The Prudential Corporation
Dow Jones
LaSalle Mortgage Corporation
Buhl Collection