Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Keith Edmier.

Keith Edmier is an American sculptor born in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. He currently lives and works in New York. He received his B.F.A. in 1986 from the California Institute of the Arts.

With an early background in special-effects makeup and film (working on films like David Cronenberg’s “The Fly”), Edmier went on to become influenced by neo-conceptualist and appropriation art during his time at California Institute of the Arts. Edmier is a master technician and his sculpture has ranged from marble and steel to casting techniques with tinted plastic resins, bronze, and volcanic basalt. Using an array of sculptural material, he blends pop culture and autobiographical references, recreating his personal history in an uncanny way with the simultaneous nostalgia and humor of his present perspective. New York. In 2000 and 2001 he collaborated on a series of sculptures with his teen idol Farrah Fawcett.

Edmier has shown his work internationally at many galleries and institutions. He has had numerous solo exhibitions at Petzel Gallery (2015-2020), Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida SouthWestern State College, Fort Myers (2015), Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (2013), the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2003), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2002), The University at Albany Art Museum, Albany (2008), CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2007), and Neugerriemschneider Gallery, Berlin (2000).

His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands (2018); Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (2017); Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama (2016); the Sculpture Center, New York (2013); Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2012); Kunstwerke, Berlin (2007); Tate Modern, London (2007); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2005); Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2007); Kunsthalle Vienna (2004); Migros Museum, Zurich (2004), and the Whitney Biennial, New York (2002), among others.

Edmier’s work is in collections of such museums including the Tate Gallery, London; the Israel Museum; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York the Denver Art Museum; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among others.

He is the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2001 Biennial Award.

Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and scholars presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.

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