Arnold J. Kemp (b. 1968 in Boston) lives and works in Chicago. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work include FALSE HYDRAS (2021) at JOAN in Los Angeles and I COULD SURVIVE, I WOULD SURVIVE, I SHOULD SURVIVE (2021) at Manetti Shrem Art Museum at the University of California at Davis. Over the past decade, Kemp received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. In addition, Kemp’s practice has been reviewed at length in notable art publications and newspapers, including ArtForum (2021) and The New York Times (2021). Kemp’s works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Portland Art Museum, the Schneider Museum of Art, and the Tacoma Art Museum. Kemp received a BA/BFA degree in Studio Art and English Literature from Tufts University in 1991 and an MFA degree in 2005 from Stanford University.

CURRICULUM VITAE

EXHIBITIONS

April 13 - May 24th, 2024
2024 Group Exhibition

March 12th - April 30th, 2022
Talking To The Sun

March 6th - April 17th 2021

SELECT EXHIBTIONS

First Comes Dark Notes
Coulter Art Gallery at Stanford University
October 1st - December 6th, 2024

To Whom Keeps a Record
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland
May 25th - September 8th, 2024

STAGE
Martos Gallery, New York
November 3 – Saturday, January 14, 2023

Less Like an Object and More Like the Weather
The Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago
February 17th - April 10th, 2022

I Would Survive, I Could Survive, I Should Survive
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California at Davis
June 3rd - November 12th, 2021

PUBLICATIONS

Arnold J. Kemp | February 14

Arnold J. Kemp | In Arms