Jon Kessler (CRF 2015) received his BFA from SUNY College at Purchase and the Whitney Independent Study Program. His first exhibition was at Artists Space in 1983, followed by a show at White Columns. He exhibited regularly at Luhring Augustine (New York), Max Hetzler & Gisela Capitain (Koln), and Chantal Croussel (Paris). His first solo museum show was organized by MCA (Chicago) and travelled to Cincinnati and Houston in 1986. His first immersive installation “The Palace at 4 AM” was exhibited at MoMA/PS1 in 2005 and travelled to the Louisiana Museum (Copenhagen) and ZKM (Karlsruhe) and is permanently installed at Phoenix Kulturstiftung/Sammlung Falckenberg (Hamburg). His work is in the collections of The Whitney, MoMA, The Guggenheim, and The Brooklyn Museum. A recipient of several National Endowment for the Arts awards, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award, a Foundation for the Performing Arts award, and a St. Gaudens Memorial award, Jon has been a Professor of Art at Columbia University since 1994.

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