MKF

  • Foundation
    • Mission
    • Board
    • Staff
    • Jobs
  • Grants
    • Overview
    • Guidelines
    • Awardees
    • Spotlight
  • Mike Kelley
    • Biography
    • Exhibition History
    • Bibliography
    • Music
  • Art & Archives
    • Overview
    • Archives
    • Art Collection
    • Artwork & Exhibition Search
  • On View
    • At Home with Mike Kelley
    • Current Exhibitions
    • Upcoming Exhibitions
    • Past Exhibitions
    • Public Collections
    • More
      • News
      • Store
      • FAQs
      • Contact Us
  • Foundation
    • Mission
    • Board
    • Staff
    • Jobs
  • Mike Kelley
    • Biography
    • Exhibition History
    • Bibliography
    • Music
  • Art & Archives
    • Overview
    • Archives
    • Art Collection
    • Artwork & Exhibition Search
  • Grants
    • Overview
    • Guidelines
    • Awardees
    • Spotlight
  • On View
    • At Home with Mike Kelley
    • Current Exhibitions
    • Upcoming Exhibitions
    • Past Exhibitions
    • Public Collections
  • News
  • Store
  • FAQs
  • Contact Us

Art & Archives

  • Overview
  • Archives
  • Art Collection
  • Artwork & Exhibition Search
Menu
Overview
Archives
Art Collection
Artwork & Exhibition Search

Artwork & Exhibition Search

Filter by image type, medium, and decade to search through a selection of Mike Kelley's artwork and exhibition images below. Please check back for new additions.

No Results

Try refining your filter preferences.

Schematic Architecture 13 (Unknown)

Work on Paper

Date unknown

View

Schematic Architecture 16 (Unknown)

Work on Paper

Date unknown

View

Schematic Architecture 17 (Unknown)

Work on Paper

Date unknown

View

Schematic Architecture 18 (Unknown)

Work on Paper

Date unknown

View

Cottage Cheese

Painting

1974/1994

View

Hermaphrodite

Painting

1974

View

Dirty Girl

Painting

1975/1993

View

Untitled

Work on Paper

1975

View

Elegy to the Symbionese Liberation Army

Painting

1975

View

Untitled (Allegorical Drawing)

Work on Paper

1976

View

Painting with Hawaiian Mask, Ballerina, and De Stijl Painting

Painting

1976

View

Untitled (Allegorical Drawing)

Work on Paper

1976

View

Last Tool in Use

Sculpture & Installation

1977

View

Upward Creative Spiral

Sculpture & Installation

1977-1979

View

Moaning Drum

Sculpture & Installation

1977

View

Tube Music

Performance

1977

View

Catholic Birdhouse

Sculpture & Installation

1978

View

Performance documentation, LACE. Left to right: Don Krieger and Mike Kelley.

Spirit Voices

Performance

1978

View

Ectoplasm Photographs (Set of 15)

Photography

1978/2009

View

Chicken Brooder (Including title drawing)

Sculpture & Installation

1978/1990

View

Diagram for My Space Performance

Work on Paper

1978

View

Performance documentation, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 1978

Indianana

Performance

1978

View

Two Sound Producing Objects From A Dream 1977-78

Sculpture & Installation

1978

View

Installation view, CapcMusee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France, 1992

The Poltergeist

Photography

1979

View

Performance documentation, The Kitchen, New York, 1980.

The Parasite Lily

Performance

1980

View

Performance documentation, Pilot Theater, Los Angeles, 1983

Confusion: A Play in Seven Sets, Each Set More Spectacular and Elaborate Than the Last

Performance

1982/1983

View

4 Compound Eyes

Photography

1982-1983

View

Shock

Work on Paper

1982-1983

View

Symmetrical Sets

Work on Paper

1982-1983

View

Untitled Photograph

Photography

1982

View

Fence Figure / Compound Eye

Photography

1982

View

Expansions

Work on Paper

1982

View

The Same View Wherever You Look

Painting

1982-1983

View

Fabric

Work on Paper

1982-1983

View

Femme Fatale

Work on Paper

1982-1983

View

Giant Insect

Work on Paper

1982-1983

View

The Bells

Work on Paper

1982-1983

View

Intestinal Garland

Sculpture & Installation

1982-1983

View

Installation view Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles, 1984.

The Sublime/The Sublime Framed

Work on Paper

1983

View

Infinite Expansion

Work on Paper

1983

View

Installation View, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, 1983.

Monkey Island

Exhibition

1983

View

The Divided House

Work on Paper

1983

View

Unwilling Splendor

Work on Paper

1983

View

Bad Acting

Work on Paper

1983

View

Headache Napkin #2

Work on Paper

1983

View

Installation view, Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles, 1984.

The Sublime

Exhibition

1984

View

Installation view, Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles, 1994..

Silver Ball

Sculpture & Installation

1994

View

Apology

Work on Paper

1984

View

If You Don’t Want to Know the Definition Don’t Open The Dictionary

Work on Paper

1984

View

Know Nothing

Work on Paper

1984

View

Loading Dock Drawing #2

Work on Paper

1984

View

The Silent Scream

Work on Paper

1984

View

Performance documentation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1984.

The Sublime

Performance

1984

View

The World’s Largest Trees, Totem Pole, Flag, Ruby, Clam, Flower

Painting

1984

View

Lost

Work on Paper

1984

View

Exploring

Work on Paper

1985

View

Installation view, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden, 1997.

The Trajectory of Light in Plato's Cave

Sculpture & Installation

1985/1986

View

Little Side Cave #1

Work on Paper

1985

View

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Painting

1985

View

Installation view, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, 1985.

Plato’s Cave, Rothko’s Chapel, Lincoln’s Profile

Exhibition

1986

View

Installation view, Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris, 2006.

A Fax Transmission From: Oct. 21, 1986, 1:07 p.m.

Sculpture & Installation

1986/2004

View

Red Stain

Painting

1986

View

Trickle Down and Swaddling Clothes

Work on Paper

1986

View

Installation view, Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles, 1987.

More Love Hours than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin

Sculpture & Installation

1987

View

Animal Self and Friend of the Animals

Sculpture & Installation

1987

View

Installation view, Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris, 2006.

From My Institution to Yours

Sculpture & Installation

1987/2003

View

Homosexual Couple

Work on Paper

1987

View

Let's Talk

Sculpture & Installation

1987

View

Nature and Culture

Sculpture & Installation

1987

View

Tears of A Clown

Painting

1987

View

Three Point Program / Four Eyes

Sculpture & Installation

1987

View

Trash Picker

Sculpture & Installation

1987

View

Garbage Drawing #10

Work on Paper

1988

View

Installation view, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, 1988.

Three Projects: Half a Man, From My Institution to Yours, Pay for Your Pleasure

Exhibition

1988

View

A Patriot

Photography

1989

View

Estral Star #3

Sculpture & Installation

1989

View

Pansy Metal / Clovered Hoof

Photography

1989/2009

View

Liquid Diet

Sculpture & Installation, Work on Paper

1989/2006

View

Book Front Page

Photography

1989

View

Installation view, Rosamund Felsen, Santa Monica, 1989.

Eviscerated Corpse

Sculpture & Installation

1989

View

Figure II (Hair)

Work on Paper

1989

View

Garbage Bag II

Work on Paper

1989

View

I Am

Sculpture & Installation

1989

View

John Dean, Counsel to President Nixon

Photography

1989

View

Kissing Kidneys

Work on Paper

1989

View

Manly Craft #2

Sculpture & Installation

1989

View

The Gateway To Freedom

Photography

1989

View

Untitled (Pasolini)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Alma Pater (Wolverine Den)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Installation view, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, 1990

Empathy Displacement: Humanoid Morphology (2nd and 3rd Remove) #1

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Installation view, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, 1990

Empathy Displacement: Humanoid Morphology (2nd and 3rd Remove) #15

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Figure/Ground

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Mooner

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Untitled (Brown, Red and Blue)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Untitled (Daisy Blanket) SPRING BOUNTY

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Untitled (Female Roommate)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Untitled (Two Afghans)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Installation view, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, 1990

Untitled (Yarn)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Mechanical Toy Guts

Sculpture & Installation

1991-2012

View

Arena #5 (E.T.'s)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Arena #7 (Bears)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Arena #8 (Leopard)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Arena #6 (Peaceable Kingdom)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Arena #11 (Book Bunny)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Arena #10 (Dogs)

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Installation view, "Carnegie International 1991," Carnegie-Mellon University Museum, Pittsburgh, 1991.

Craft Morphology Flow Chart

Sculpture & Installation

1991

View

Ahh...Youth!

Photography

1991

View

Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1992

Proposal for the Decoration of an Island of Conference Rooms (with Copy Room) for an Advertising Agency Designed by Frank Gehry

Sculpture & Installation

1991

View

Installation view, Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles, 1992.

Riddle of the Sphinx

Sculpture & Installation, Work on Paper

1991-1992

View

Fruit of Thy Loins

Sculpture & Installation

1990

View

Installation View, Mike Kelley  MoMA PS1, Long Island City, 2013.

Deodorized Central Mass With Satellites

Sculpture & Installation

1991-1999

View

Dialogue #1 (An Excerpt from "Theory, Garbage, Stuffed Animals, Christ")

Sculpture & Installation

1991

View

Dialogue #4 (Written on the Wind)

Sculpture & Installation

1991

View

Colema Bench

Sculpture & Installation

1991

View

Colema Board Details

Photography

1992

View

Kneading Board

Sculpture & Installation

1992

View

Orgone Shed

Sculpture & Installation

1992

View

Orgone Shed Plans

Photography

1992

View

Private Address System

Sculpture & Installation

1992

View

The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter) #13; Art

Painting

1994

View

Untitled #12 (Dust Ball Photos)

Photography

1994

View

Untitled #2 (Dust Ball Photos)

Photography

1994

View

Untitled #5 (Dust Ball Photos)

Photography

1994

View

Timeless/Authorless #1

Photography

1995

View

Installation view, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden, 1997.

Educational Complex

Sculpture & Installation

1995

View

Abuse Report

Photography

1995/2007

View

Entry Way (Genealogical Chart)

Sculpture & Installation

1995

View

Liberal Paganism

Painting

1995

View

Timeless Painting #6

Painting

1995

View

Installation View, Toward a Utopian Arts Complex, Metro Pictures, New York, New York, 1995.

Toward a Utopian Arts Complex

Exhibition

1995

View

Installation view, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 1999.

Sublevel

Sculpture & Installation

1998

View

Odd Man Out

Sculpture & Installation

1998

View

Performance Related Objects

Sculpture & Installation

1998

View

The Sun Collapses Taking with it the Grid of the Ordered Universe

Painting

1998

View

Installation view, Patrick Painter, Santa Monica

Untitled (Priest/ Yankee Zulu)

Sculpture & Installation

1998

View

Installation view, Metro Pictures, New York, 1999.

Aerodynamic Vertical to Horizontal Shift

Sculpture & Installation

1999

View

Kandor-Con 2000

Sculpture & Installation

1999/2007

View

360 Degree View of Kandor in 8 Parts #15

Work on Paper

1999

View

Categorical Imperative

Sculpture & Installation

1999

View

Color and Form

Photography

1999

View

Installation view, Metro Pictures, New York

Framed and Frame (Miniature Reproduction “Chinatown Wishing Well” built by Mike Kelley after “Miniature Reproduction ‘Seven Star Cavern’ Built by Prof. H. K. Lu”)

Sculpture & Installation

1999

View

Installation view, Magasin, CNAC, Grenoble, France

Test Room Containing Multiple Stimuli Known to Elicit Curiosity and Manipulatory Responses

Sculpture & Installation

1999

View

Installation view, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, 1999.

Mike Kelley: Two Projects

Exhibition

1999

View

Installation view, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy, 2000

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (A Domestic Scene)

Sculpture & Installation

2000

View

Installation view, Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris, 2000

In Memory of Camelot

Sculpture & Installation

2000

View

Installation view, Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris, 2000

SS Memory Ware Hump

Sculpture & Installation

2000

View

Installation view, Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica, 2002.

John Glenn Memorial Detroit River Reclamation Project (Including the Local Culture Pictorial Guide, 1968-1972, Wayne/Westland Eagle)

Sculpture & Installation

2001

View

Memory Ware Flat #17

Sculpture & Installation

2001

View

Installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002.

Strange Früt: Rock Apocrypha

Painting, Video

2001

View

Black Out (Detroit River)

Photography

2001

View

Butter-Colored Vision of the Land O’ Lakes Girl, Peche Island

Photography

2001

View

Memory Ware Flat #8

Sculpture & Installation

2001

View

Plaster Statue of John Glenn, John Glenn H. S., Westland, MI and Chainsaw Sculpture of Bigfoot, Redwood Area of Northern California

Photography

2001

View

Psychic Waveforms (Gerome Kamrowski’s Sculpture Garden, Ann Arbor, MI)

Photography

2001

View

Installation view, Patrick Painter, Santa Monica

Test Room Containing Multiple Stimuli Known to Elicit Curiosity And Manipulatory Responses

Photography

2001

View

Missing Time Color Exercise (Reversed) #1

Painting

2002

View

Repressed Spatial Relationships Rendered as Fluid No. 3: Reconfiguration of Wayne High School into the Ritual Presentation Arena of the Educational Complex

Sculpture & Installation

2002

View

Compound Temporal Conflation (Horizontal) #1-4

Photography

2002/2003

View

#1 (Double Exposure Bedroom)

Photography

2002/2003

View

Concretized Negative Space

Sculpture & Installation

2002

View

Drawing for Repressed Spatial Relationships Rendered as Fluid No. 3: Reconfiguration of Wayne High School into the Ritual Presentation Arena of the Educational Complex

Sculpture & Installation

2002

View

Lingam and Yoni (Fighting Island)

Sculpture & Installation

2002

View

Missing Time Color Exercise (Reversed) #1

Painting

2002

View

Missing Time Color Exercise (Reversed) No. 3 and No. 4 (Resonating Gray Rectangles)

Painting

2002

View

Missing Time Color Exercise (Reversed) No. 5 (Resonating Stone Walls)

Painting

2002

View

Missing Time Color Exercise (Reversed) No. 7 (Brown/Red Top, Gray/Blue Bottom)

Painting

2002

View

Carpet #2

Painting

2003

View

Installation view, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2003

Light(Time)-Space Modulator

Sculpture & Installation

2003

View

Wood Grain #1

Painting

2003

View

Wood Grain #6

Painting

2003

View

Installation view, Gagosian, 2005.

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions #27 (Gospel Rocket)

Sculpture & Installation, Video

2004-2005

View

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #32 (Horse Dance of the False Virgin)

Photography

2004-2005

View

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #21 (Chicken Dance)

Photography

2004-2005

View

Installation view, Gagosian, New York, 2005

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions #11,12,13 (Candle-Lighting Ceremony)

Sculpture & Installation

2004-2005

View

Installation view, Gagosian, New York, 2005

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions #25 (Devil’s Door)

Sculpture & Installation

2004-2005

View

Installation view, Gagosian, New York, 2005

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #25B (Candy Cane Throne)

Sculpture & Installation

2004-2005

View

Mouvement Portfolio

Photography

2004-2005

View

Installation view, Gagosian, New York, 2005

Switching Marys

Sculpture & Installation

2004-2005

View

Co-worker 3-Part

Sculpture & Installation

2004-2005

View

Mobile Homestead

Sculpture & Installation

2005-2013

View

Swapping Marys

Work on Paper

2005

View

Installation View, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2005.

Day Is Done

Exhibition

2005

View

Cartesian Sissy

Work on Paper

2006

View

Hello Cootie

Work on Paper

2006

View

Profondeurs Vertes

Sculpture & Installation, Video

2006

View

Reclining Figure

Work on Paper

2006

View

Rose Hobart II

Sculpture & Installation

2006

View

Installation view, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, 2007.

Kandor 1

Sculpture & Installation

2007

View

Detail.

City 6 (AP 3)

Sculpture & Installation

2007

View

The Lugubrious Pastel Joys of the Candy-Froth Dolphin Portal

Sculpture & Installation

2007/2009

View

City 17 (1/2)

Sculpture & Installation

2007-2009

View

City 3 (4/5)

Sculpture & Installation

2007-2009

View

City 0

Sculpture & Installation

2007

View

City 15 (1/5)

Sculpture & Installation

2007

View

Installation view, Skulptur Projekte Munster, Germany, 2007

Petting Zoo

Sculpture & Installation

2007

View

Charming Fungus

Painting

2007

View

Installation View, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2007.

Kandors

Exhibition

2007

View

Lenticular 1

Sculpture & Installation

2007

View

Kandor 4

Sculpture & Installation

2007

View

Animation 19

Video

2007

View

Kandor 5

Sculpture & Installation

2007

View

Bottle 20

Video

2007

View

Kandor 3

Sculpture & Installation

2007

View

Untitled 6

Painting

2008-2009

View

Fuck Me - I’m Irish

Painting

2008-2009

View

Mort’s Mouth

Painting

2008-2009

View

Naked Majas (Bettelheim’s Genital)

Painting

2008-2009

View

The Death of the West

Painting

2008-2009

View

Untitled 10

Painting

2008-2009

View

Untitled 2

Painting

2008-2009

View

Untitled 5

Painting

2008-2009

View

Memory Ware Flat #47

Sculpture & Installation

2008

View

Installation View, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium, 2008.

Mike Kelley: Educational Complex Onwards: 1995-2008

Exhibition

2008

View

A Voyage of Growth and Discovery (Installation)

Sculpture & Installation, Video

2009-2010

View

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #33 (The Offer)

Performance

2009

View

Horizontal Tracking Shot of a Cross Section of Trauma Rooms

Painting

2009

View

Memory Ware Flat #54

Sculpture & Installation

2009

View

City 000

Sculpture & Installation

2010

View

City 19 (1/5)

Sculpture & Installation

2010

View

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #34 (The King and Us/The Queens and Me)

Sculpture & Installation, Video

2010

View

Kandor 10

Sculpture & Installation

2010

View

Kandor 12

Sculpture & Installation

2010

View

Kandor 18B

Sculpture & Installation

2010

View

Memory Ware #60

Sculpture & Installation

2010

View

Odalisque

Sculpture & Installation

2010

View

Installation View, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, New York, 2010.

Mike Kelley: Arenas

Exhibition

2010

View

City 0000

Sculpture & Installation

2011

View

Exterior view.

Kandor 10B (Exploded Fortress of Solitude)

Sculpture & Installation

2011

View

City 17 (2/2)

Sculpture & Installation

2011

View

City 20 (2/5)

Sculpture & Installation

2011

View

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)

Sculpture & Installation, Video

2011

View

City 20 (5/5)

Sculpture & Installation

2011

View

Fallen Warrior

Sculpture & Installation

2011

View

Kandor 16

Sculpture & Installation

2011

View

Kandor 2B

Sculpture & Installation

2011

View

Makeup Studies for a Gang of Eurotrash Perverts

Work on Paper

2011

View

War Memorial

Sculpture & Installation

2011

View

Installation View, Mike Kelley: Framed and Frame, Hauser & Wirth, London, United Kingdom, 2016.

Mike Kelley: Framed and Frame

Exhibition

2016

View

Installation View, Mike Kelley: Memory Ware, Hauser & Wirth, 69th Street, New York, New York, 2016.

Mike Kelley: Memory Ware

Exhibition

2016

View

Installation view, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, 2017.

Michigan Stories: Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw

Exhibition

2017

View

Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999 – 2011

Exhibition

2017

View

Installation View,  Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland, 2018.

Mike Kelley: God's Oasis

Exhibition

2018

View

7019 N. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90042
  • Store
  • FAQs
  • Contact Us
  • Login
  • Store
  • FAQs
  • Contact Us
  • Login

Join our mailing list:

Terms & Conditions Privacy Policy Return Policy
© MIKE KELLEY FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.