Kurt Kauper

KURT KAUPER (b. 1966, Indianapolis, IN) received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA and his BFA from Boston University, Boston, MA. 

Recent solo exhibitions include Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming); “Recent Paintings,” Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming); “Women,” Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY; “New Paintings,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA; “Barack and Michelle Obama,” Deitch Projects, New York, NY; “Everybody Knew That Canadians were the Best Hockey Players,” Deitch Projects, New York, NY; ACME, Los Angeles, CA; Deitch Projects, New York, NY; ACME, Los Angeles, CA and ACME, Santa Monica, CA. 

Recent group exhibitions include "Apple in the Dark," Harkawik, New York, NY; “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe,” Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Flesh,” Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; “Salon de Peinture,” Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY; “Really.” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “2020 Vision,” Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY; “Charity,” Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY; “Kith & Kin,” Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA; “Palinopsia,” Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark; “Drawn Together Again,” The Flag Foundation, New York, NY; “The New Baroque,” Booth Gallery, New York, NY; “Really?” Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “By the River,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA; “Passage,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA; “Minerva,” Cuevas Tilleard Projects, New York, NY; “Introspective,” Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY; “Unrealism” (curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian), Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL; “Convergence,” 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA; “Unrealism Part 1,” Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY; “Twenty Years,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA and “Totally Gay for Sports,” Lodge Gallery, New York, NY. 

His work is included in select collections including The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA; The Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. 

He is the recipient of awards including the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant; the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. 

Kauper lives and works in New York, NY.