Art Fact Friday #39 Kevin Beasley
- William Mandela Matthews
- Apr 26, 2024
- 2 min read
An artist acclaimed for installations and sculptures made of found materials including clothing, sports equipment, and personal artifacts.This artist also utilizes microphones, audio processors, and mixers to incorporate sound. This technique allows sculptures to become live performances. The artist sculptures merge assemblage and process art. Their use of found objects allows the artist to decipher personal and cultural meanings. By combining these items with memories, experiences, historical and cultural references, the artist investigates, power and races influences on American society. The artist works are held in a number of public collections including Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Dallas Museum of Art and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Born in Lynchburg, VA 1985 Kevin Beasley earned a BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit in 2007, and an MFA from Yale University in 2012. In 2012 Beasley performed Want My Spot Back - sound art absent of sculpture -in the Atrium of the Museum of Modern Art. Beasley then began an 11 month residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2013. In 2014 Beasley participated the Studio Museum in Harlem's exhibition Material Histories. Beasley exhibited a site-specific installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2014 Whitney Biennial. He was then a part of the Museum of Modern Art's 2014-15 exhibition Cut to Swipe.
The Young Collector's Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum commissioned Strange
Fruit: Part I and Strange Fruit: Part II and displayed Beasley pieces in the exhibition Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim in 2015. These works are now part of the museum's permanent collection. Beasley featured in the MoMA PS1's Greater New York exhibition of 2015. In 2018 Beasley opened his first solo exhibit , at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York "A view of a landscape". "A view of a landscape" also featured live performances with: Taja Cheek,Eli Keszler, Jlin, and Beasley himself.
Kevin Beasley currently lives and works in Queens, New York. Beasley has held residencies at MOCA Cleveland, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York; as well as Studio Museum in Harlem and MoMA PS1, New York. His works have been presented in a number of group exhibitions, including Kevin Beasley and Vanessa Merrill, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan; Some sweet day, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Realization is Better than Anticipation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Queens International 2013, Queens Museum of Art, New York ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Whitney Biennial; When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York which traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Material Histories, Studio Museum in Harlem.
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