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MICHAEL JONES MCKEAN

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The Fall
Twelve Earths
The Commune
Proxima Centauri b. Gleise 667 Cc. Kepler-442b. Wolf 1061c. . . .
The Ground
Rivers
Three Carbon Tons
a hundred twenty six billion acres
we float above to spit and sing
The Religion
Seven Sculptures
Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms
circles become spheres
Selected Projects 2004 - 2016
WORDS
NEWS
CATALOGS
ASMBLY
BIOGRAPHY

MICHAEL JONES MCKEAN (b. Micronesia, lives/works Richmond, Virginia) is a sculptor whose work explores the nature of objects in relation to folklore, technology, anthropology, and geography. His work engages an interest in deep time, timescales and their collapse, in the process de-centering anthropocentric registrations of events, distances, and meaning. Through his working process he challenges stable definitions such as real and replica, natural and synthetic, past and future, employing matter as diverse as ancient meteorites, of-the-moment technologies, raw clay, psychotropic medicines, decaying boats, prismatic rainbows, and the earth itself.

Michael Jones McKean is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Nancy Graves Foundation Award, a Virginia A Groot Foundation Award, and an Artadia Award. McKean has also been awarded fellowships and residencies at The Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The MacDowell Colony, The International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City, The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in New York City.

McKean’s work has been exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Parc Saint Leger Centre d’art Contemporain, Nevers, France; Horton Gallery, New York, NY; The Quebec Biennale, Quebec City, Canada; Gentili Apri, Berlin, Germany; The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece; Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada; Project Gentili, Prato, Italy; Shenkar University, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX among many others.

McKean has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Sculpture and Extended Media Department since 2006 and is a Contributing Editor for Art Papers.

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