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Kenneth Feingold (born 1952 in USA) is a contemporary American artist based in New York City. He has been exhibiting his work in video, drawing, film, sculpture, photography, and installations since 1974. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004)WEB, Ken Feingold,weblink 2023-05-30, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation..., en-US, 2023-03-29,weblink live, and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship (2003)WEB,weblink Nominees and Winners | Renew Media/Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships in New Media Art | Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art | Cornell University Library, 2019-01-04, 2020-06-18,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20200618141303weblink">weblink live, 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,WEB,weblink Ken Feingold | MoMA, 2017-05-19, 2016-11-11,weblink live, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou,WEB, Centre Pompidou,weblink May 30, 2023, May 24, 2023,weblink live, Paris; Tate Liverpool,WEB, Tate, Tate Liverpool,weblink 2023-05-30, Tate, en-GB, 2023-05-30,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20230530023023weblink">weblink live, the Whitney Museum of American Art,WEB, Whitney Museum of American Art,weblink 2023-05-30, whitney.org, en, 2020-02-16,weblink live, New York, among others.

Life and work

Feingold was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1952.BOOK, Biennial,weblink 1989, Whitney Museum of American Art, 9780393304398, WEB,weblink Ken Feingold | MoMA, 2017-05-19, 2017-01-17,weblink live, BOOK, Frank Popper, From Technological to Virtual Art,weblink 2007, MIT Press, 978-0-262-16230-2,

1970s

He studied at Antioch College from 1970 through 1971,BOOK, Hans-Peter Schwarz, Media--art--history: Media Museum, ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe,weblink 1997, Prestel, 978-3-7913-1878-3, making experimental 16mm films and film installations and worked at The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York.WEB, Page not found - The Film-Makers' Cooperative,weblink 2023-05-30, film-makerscoop.com, en, 2019-08-14,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190814031725weblink">weblink live, While attending Antioch, Feingold studied with and was the Teaching Assistant for Paul Sharits. In late 1971 he left Antioch and moved to San Francisco. Later he transferred to CalArts, and moved to Los Angeles. He worked as studio assistant for John Baldessari until 1976. He graduated from CalArts with both Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees.WEB,weblink Electronic Arts Intermix: Ken Feingold : Biography, 2019-08-14, 2019-08-14,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190814032510weblink">weblink live, 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.WEB,weblinkweblink 2023-05-30, library.nyarc.org, en, 2023-05-04,weblink live, 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 YorkWEB,weblink Search, 2017-06-09, 2019-02-12,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190212011659weblink">weblink live, 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.WEB,weblink Journal [LAICA Journal], 2017-06-09, 2019-02-12,weblink live, He participated in a survey of his 16mm films at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and exhibited an installation in the Project Room at Artists' Space, New York.WEB,weblink Place, (Title to be determined), for a Participant: Ken Feingold, 2017-06-09, 2017-04-28,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170428193737weblink">weblink live,

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 Europeweblink {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816152829weblink |date=2017-08-16 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} His video artworks "5dim/MIND" and "The Double" were acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.He returned to Asia in 1985, continuing his work in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and India. His three-year project of videotaping in South Asia resulted in the Distance of the Outsider series of video works. Among these were "India Time" (1987)WEB,weblink Electronic Arts Intermix: India Time, Ken Feingold, www.eai.org, 2023-05-30, 2022-12-09,weblink live, and "Life in Exile" (1988), a series of interviews with Tibetan philosophers and former political prisoners living in exile in India.WEB,weblink Electronic Arts Intermix: Life in Exile, Part One: Body, Speech and Mind: Conversations with Tibetan Philosophers, Ken Feingold, 2017-06-09, 2021-11-30,weblink live, WEB,weblink Electronic Arts Intermix: Life in Exile, Part Two: Resisting the Chinese Occupation: Personal Accounts of Tibetans, Ken Feingold, www.eai.org, 2023-05-30, 2022-12-09,weblink live,

1990s

Feingold received a Fellowship from the Japan/US Friendship Commission and took up an extended residency in Tokyo in 1990. During the 1990s Feingold exhibited in the US, Europe, Korea, 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" was completed in 1991. It was first exhibited at Kunsthalle Dominikannerkirche, "European Media Art Festival", Osnabrück, Germany and then traveled widely throughout Europe. In the early 1990s he created interactive works with speaking 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).NEWS,weblink Artintact 3 | 1996 | ZKM, 2019-08-14, 2021-06-16,weblink live, He won the Videonale-Preis at BonnVideonale, Bonn Kunstverein, for his work Un Chien Délicieux.In 1997 he created the interactive installation "Interior" for InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, "ICC Biennale ‘97"WEB, ICC ONLINE {{!, ARCHIVE {{!}} 1997 {{!}} ICC BIENNALE'97 {{!}} Works {{!}} "Interior" |url=https://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/feature/1997/ICC_BIENNALE97/Works/interior.html |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=www.ntticc.or.jp |archive-date=2022-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628095042weblink |url-status=live }} and was awarded the DNP Internet ‘97 Interactive Award;WEB, Exhibition,weblink 2023-05-30, park.org, 2022-05-29,weblink live, Dai Nippon Printing, Tokyo. The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, commissioned the interactive work "Head" for the exhibition "Alien Intelligence"WEB, Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma {{!, Kansallisgalleria |url=https://kiasma.fi/ |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma |language=fi |archive-date=2023-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230527180736weblink |url-status=live }} in 1999. 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 3.0WEB, Fundación Telefónica España,weblink 2023-05-30, Fundación Telefónica España, es, 2023-05-30,weblink live, (Life 3.0), Madrid.His video work "Un Chien Délicieux" was included in documenta X, Kassel, as part of a curated program titled "Beware: In Portraying the Phantom You Become One" ("Vorsicht! Wer Phantom Spielt wird selbst eins", 1997). This project was also exhibited in Paris as "Prends garde! A jouer au fantôme, on le devient (Musée National d'Art Moderne /Centre Georges Pompidou, 1997)".Johan Grimonprez#Beware! In Playing the Phantom, You Become One{{Circular reference|date=November 2017}}

2000s

(File:Self Portrait Feingold.jpg|thumb|Self Portrait As the Center of the Universe 2001)Feingold participated in the 2002 Whitney Biennial,WEB, Whitney Museum of American Art {{!, Biennial -- 2002 |url=https://whitney.org/www/2002biennial/index.shtml |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=whitney.org |archive-date=2008-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720161259weblink |url-status=live }} and in 2003 he received a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship WEB,weblink Renew Media/Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships in New Media Art | Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art | Cornell University Library, 2019-08-14, 2019-08-12,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20190812140111weblink">weblink live, ) and a Guggenheim Fellowship.His work "Self Portrait as the Center of the Universe" (2001) was included in the historical overview exhibition "Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance" at the Tate Liverpool in 2004.WEB,weblink Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance: The artist as director | Tate, 2016-03-28, 2016-04-09,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160409220306weblink">weblink live, "The Surprising Spiral" was included in "Masterpieces of Media Art from the ZKM Collection" at the ZKM Karlsruhe in 2005.ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, presented a mid-career survey of his work in 2005-2006.A selection of his early films and video works was screened at Museum of Modern Art, New York as part of "TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures" in 2006.A solo show of his installation work "Eros and Thanatos Flying/Falling" (2006) was held at Mejan Labs, Stockholm in 2006, and his work "Box of Men" (2007) was included in "Kempelen - Man in the Machine" at Műscarnok, Budapest and traveled to ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe later that year. "JCJ-Junkman" (1995) was included in "Imagining Media @ ZKM" at the ZKM Karlsruhe in 2009 and "Eros and Thanatos Flying/Falling" was exhibited in the Mediations Biennale in Poznan, Poland in 2010. "Head" (1999) was included in "VIDA 1999-2012", Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid in 2012-2013 and in "Kiasma Hits" at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2013-2014.WEB,weblink Kiasma - Kiasma Hits -näyttelyn taiteilijat, 2014-02-08, 2014-02-25,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140225062642weblink">weblink live, "Lantern" was included in "thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art"WEB,weblink thingworld : National Art Museum of China 2014, 2015-04-05, 2015-04-08,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150408005612weblink">weblink live, at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2014The book "KEN FEINGOLD: Figures of Speech",WEB,weblink Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, 2016-03-28, 2016-04-08,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160408171727weblink">weblink live, WEB,weblink (PDF) Ken Feingold: Figures of Speech / Ken Feingold: Figury mowy {{!, Ryszard W . Kluszczyński - Academia.edu| last1 = Kluszczyński| first1 = Ryszard W.}} a compilation of essays on Feingold's artwork by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, Ken Feingold, Errki Huhtamo, Edward Shanken, and Ewa Wójtowicz, published 2015 by Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk as part of their "Art + Science" series.

Collections

His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY;WEB, Ken Feingold {{!, MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/34867 |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en |archive-date=2022-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208021534weblink |url-status=live }} ZKMWEB, Ken Feingold {{!, The Surprising Spiral {{!}} 1991 {{!}} ZKM |url=https://zkm.de/en/artwork/the-surprising-spiral |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=zkm.de |language=en |archive-date=2022-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208021554weblink |url-status=live }}WEB, JCJ Junkman {{!, ZKM Mobile Site |url=http://at.zkm.de/en/node/262 |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=at.zkm.de |archive-date=2022-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123001429weblink |url-status=live }} Center for Art and Media, Karslruhe; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; the National Gallery of Canada.;WEB,weblink Ngc Library / Bibliotheque Mbac" / All Colls, 2016-03-28, 2022-03-03,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20220303050758weblink">weblink live, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris;WEB,weblink La personne Ken Feingold – Centre Pompidou, 2014-11-21, 2014-11-29,weblink live, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San Jose, Costa Rica; Fortuny Museum, Venice; Whitney Museum of American Art WEB, Ken Feingold,weblink 2023-05-30, whitney.org, en, 2023-03-25,weblink live, among others.

References

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External links

• Official website
• Interview with the artist

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