Mike Kelley

Biography

Mike Kelley was one of the most provocative and influential figures in contemporary art. His idiosyncratic works negotiate a charged terrain of desire, dread and sociopathology in everyday life. With deadpan humor, he invests childhood toys, kitsch, and ordinary objects with subversive meaning. His video projects, often created with collaborators such as Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, and Tony Oursler, inhabit a peculiarly American landscape infused with irony and pop cultural debris.

- - - - Michael "Mike" Kelley (October 27, 1954 in Wayne, Michigan – c. January 31, 2012 in South Pasadena) was an American artist. His work involved found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance and video.

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Known For

Garage Sale II
Garage Sale II
Grow Live Monsters
Grow Live Monsters
Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)
Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)
Sir Drone
Sir Drone
Cinderella
Cinderella
Blind Country
Blind Country
Kappa
Kappa
The Banana Man
The Banana Man

Filmography

2006 Day Is Done
as Narrator
1995 Grow Live Monsters
as Manson victim - sax player
1992 Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
as
1992 After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
as Self
1990 Made in Hollywood
as
1989 Sir Drone
as Jinx
1989 Blind Country
as
1987 Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)
as Son
1986 Kappa
as The Kappa
1986 Cinderella
as Accordian Player
1983 The Banana Man
as
1980 Garage Sale II
as
1979 The Broken Rule
as