Ken Feingold

Kenneth Feingold (USA, 1952 - ) is an American contemporary artist based in New York. He has been exhibiting his work in drawing, film, video, objects, and installations since 1974. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) [ [http://www.gf.org/04fellow.html gf.org] ] and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship(2003) [ [http://mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist&sub=detail&artist_id=656 mediaartists.org] ] 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 Museum of Modern Art, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Liverpool, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and many other museums.

Life and work

Feingold was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1952 and moved to New York City with his family in 1956. He studied at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio under Paul Sharits, making experimental 16mm films and film installations and working at The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York.

1970s

In 1971 he moved to San Francisco. Later he transferred to CalArts and moved to Los Angeles. His teachers at CalArts included John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, David Antin and Pat O'Neill. He worked as studio assistant for John Baldessari until 1976, when he graduated from CalArts with an MFA. 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 Whitney Museum of American Art, 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 Long Beach Museum of Art.

In 1976 he moved back to New York and worked as a studio assistant for Vito Acconci. In the following year he took up a teaching post at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. 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 16mm films at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and an exhibition at Project Room at Artists' Space, New York.

1980s

Feingold's video installation “Sexual Jokes” was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and he received a National Endowment for the Arts 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 Whitney Biennial and exhibited widely in America and Europe.

His three year project of interviews with Tibetan philosophers living in exile in India resulted in the "Distance of the Outsider" series of video works.

In the 1980s he gave lectures at the Museum of Modern Art, and from 1989 to 1994 he taught on the Visual Arts program at Princeton University.

He received funding from from New York State Council on the Arts, The Contemporary Art Television(CAT) Fund, and The McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Artists, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Jerome Foundation, Checkerboard Foundation. In 1989 he received a US/Japan Friendship Commission Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship (through National Endowment for the Arts).

1990s

During the 1990s Feingold exhibited in America, Europe 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” completed in 1990 and was exhibited at Kunsthalle Dominikannerkirche, "European Media Art Festival", Osnabrück, Germany. In the early 1990s he created interactive works with talking head 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).

Teaching posts in the 1990s included Cooper Union and the School of Visual Arts (until 1998).

He won the Videonale-Preis at BonnVideonale, Bonn Kunstverein, for his work "Un Chien Délicieux" and received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.

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”. 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.

He participated in documenta X.

2000s

Feingold participated in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, [ [http://www.whitney.org/2002biennial/ Whitney Biennial 2002] ] and in 2003 he received a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.

In 2005 ACE Gallery, L.A., showed a survey of his works from 1972 to 2005.

His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art Film Collection, NY; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karslruhe; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki and the National Gallery of Canada. [ [http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/searchResults_e.jsp?keyword=%22ken+feingold%22&maxresults=8&with
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References

External links

* [http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?section=article&issue=issue12&article=GAMBER_INTERVIEW_WITH_KEN_8251156 Interview with the artist]
* [http://www.kenfeingold.com http://www.kenfeingold.com Artist's website]