Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick

Nicholas Kahn, born New York City, 1964

Richard Selesnick, born London, England, 1964 

 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

"The Royal Excavation Corps, Past-Future," Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, September 21- January 7, 2001.

“Transmissions from the Schottensumpfkunfpig (Scotlandfuturebog),” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, February 10 – March 11, 2000.

“Transmissions from the Schottensumpfkunfpig (Scotlandfuturebog),” Pepper Gallery, Boston,MA, December 3 – January 8, 2000.

“The Photographic Journals of Peter Hesselbach,” Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, October 22 – November 27, 1999.

“The Circular River,  the Siberian Expeditions of 1944-46,” Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, October 1998 – January, 1999.

Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, October, 1998.

Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT,  September, 1998.

Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY,  June – July, 1998.

“The Circular River: the Siberian Expeditions of 1944-46,” Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA, April – June, 1998.

“The Pavilion of the Green Man,” Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY,  October – November, 1997.

“The Burren Expedition,” East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA, August, 1997.

“The Journals of Peter Hesselbach,” Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, March – April, 1997.

“Tent of the Mesmer,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, March – May, 1997.

“The Photographic Journals of Peter Hesselbach,” Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA, December – January, 1996-1997.

“Tent of the Mesmer,”  Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT, September – October, 1996.

“The Golden Age of Devonshire Semaphore: Royal Excavation Corps Signal Flag Manouveres 1934 –36,” East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA,  September, 1996.

“The Roodloft of the Drunken Beekeeper,” Monique Knowlton, New York, NY,  April – May, 1996.

“Zelt der Biscuit Mench,” East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA, July, 1995.

“Chapel dedicated to the Human Head,” (an installation of work in progress),Hudson Walker Gallery, March, 1995.

“Collaborative Paintings,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, December – January, 1994 – 1995.

“The Eskimo Paintings,” Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT, September – October , 1994.

“The Biscuit Triptychs,” East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA, July, 1994.

“Bog  Pastries and Bread Heads for  the Archives of the Royal Excavation Corps,”  Forum Gallery, New York, NY, September , 1993.

“Painted Heads,” East End Gallery, Provincetown,  MA, July, 1993.

“The Delusional Object: Banners and Artefacts from the Royal Excavation Corps,” DianaBurke Gallery, New York, NY, March – April, 1993.

“Flagman Artefacts,” East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA, August, 1992.

East End Gallery, July, 1991.

Owen Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA , March – April, 1991.

Klein Art Gallery, Woodstock, NY, 1991.

“A Pictish Bedchamber of the 9th Century,” The Bergen County Museum of Arts and Sciences, Paramus, NJ, August, 1989.

Pictavia Antiqua, Art Mecca, Chicago, IL, March – May, 1989.

The New End Gallery, London, England, August, 1988.

The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England, June – July, 1988.  

Selected Group Exhibitions 

"Summer Group Exhibition," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, July 20 - August 31, 2000.

“Rattling the Frame:Ten Photographic Space, 1974-1999,” Camera Works, San Francisco, CA, October 15 – November 20, 1999.

“Referencing the Past: Six Contemporary Artists, Kahn/Selesnick, John O’Reilly, George Condo, David McGee, Laurie Hogan, Elaine Reichek,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, September 18 – January 2, 2000.

“Summer Group Exhibition,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, July 8 – August 20, 1999. 

“Dramatis Personae: A Look at Role Playing and Narrative in Contemporary Photography,” Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, February -- March, 1999.

“Faces of Time: 75 Years of Time Magazine Portraits,” National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, March – August, 1998.

“Expanded Visions: the Panoramic Photograph,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, January – April, 1998.

“SELF AMUSED: The Contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed,” February – March, 1998.

“10 Artists/10 Visions,” DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 1997.

“Provincetown in Hudson,” Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, January – February, 1997.

Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December, 1995.

“Inaugural Group Show,” Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, September - October, 1995.

“1994-95 Visual Art Fellows from the Fine Arts Work Center,” Drerup Gallery, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, November – January, 1994-95.

“Fantastically Real,” Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, April – May, 1994.

“Spirits Unveiled,” Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA , September – October, 1994.

“Giacometti and Others,” Robert Brown Gallery, Washington DC, December, 1993 – January, 1994.

“Bergen Museum in New York,” Tribeca Gallery, New York, NY,  December, 1993.

“Sculpture: Colour and Motion,” Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York,NY, October, 1992.

Spazi Fine Arts, Housatonic, MA, October, 1992.

Outdoor Installation, Commune de Sirmione, Lake Garda, Italy, August, 1991.

“Four Young Artist Here and New,” Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA, May – June, 1991.

The Designer’s Guild, London , England, 1991.

“The History of The Bird,” Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, December - January, 1991.

“The Six – A Show of Bergen County’s Top Six Fellowship Winners,” curated by Barbara Haskell, chief curator for the Whitney Museum of Art, Bergen County Museum of Arts and Sciences, Paramus, NJ, 1988.

Detail, New York, NY, 1987-89.

Civilisation, New York, NY, 1985-87.

“Time,” The Red Studio, New York, NY, December 1984. 

Bibliography 

Richard Nilsen.  " A Visionary Beauty," The Arizona Republic, March 23, 2000.

------------. “Readings,” Harper’s Magazine, April, 2000, p38.

Roberta Smith. “Art in Review: Kahn/Selesnick,” The New York Times, Saturday March 10, 2000.

Miles Unger.  "Tales of Intrigue for a Museum of Unnatural History," pp. 35 and 38 The New York Times, Arts and Leisure, Sunday , February 6, 2000.

Eileen Kennedy. “Reviews: Kahn/Selesnick,” artsMEDIA, January, 2000, p.11.

Cate McQuaid. “Funny, phantasm, emotional edges, and realms of beauty,” The Boston Globe, Thursday, December 30, 1999.

Leah Ollman. “A Provocative Trek Into Pseudo-History,” Los Angeles Times, p. F28, Friday, November 12, 1999.

Vince Aletti.  “Choices, Art,” Village Voice, December 1, 1998, page 72.

Ken Johnson.  “Kahn and Selesnick at Monique Knowlton,” The New York Times, November 27, 1998, page 32.

Daniel Pinchbeck.  “Boy’s Own Adventure Through Siberia,” The Art Newspaper, November 1998, page 72.

Christa Worthington.  “Mining the Relics if Journey’s Past, “ New York Times, November 22, 1998, page 45.

Fredrick S. Voss.  Faces of Time: 75 Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits, pages 126-127 and cover, Little Brown Publishers, 1998.

Miles Unger.  “Kahn and Selesnick at Pepper Gallery,”  Artnews, July 1998, page 163.

Grace Consoli.  “Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick: Panoramic Photographs from the Siberian Expeditions of 1944-46,” Arts Media, May 1998, pp. 18-19.

Kate McQuaid.  “Duo Makes Art by Faking History,” The Boston Globe, May 9, 1998, pp. C1, C4.

Lucy R. Lippard.  “Moments if Grace: Spirit in the American Landscape,” Winter, 1998, Aperture pp. 61, 66-67.

Grady Turner.  “Kahn/Selesnick at Monique Knowlton,”  Art in America, November, 1997, page 130.

Nancy Stapen.  “The Bold Meets the Soulful on Newbury Street,” The Boston Globe, September 29, 1997, page 57.

Cate McQuaid.  “Kahn and Selesnick at the East End Gallery,”  The Boston Globe, August 14, 1997.

Vince Aletti.  “Choices: Art,” Village Voice, April 15, 1997, page 12.

Joanne Silver.  “Visions Exhibit Draws a Perfect 10,” The Boston Herald, June 20, 1997, pp. 14-15.

“Art Collection,” International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC, 1997.

Selesnick and Kahn.  “Stranger in  a Strange Land:  a Collaborative Work by Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick,” Arts Media November 1996, pp. 9-11.

Souren Melikian.  “In Another Orbit,”  International Herald Tribune, October 5, 1996, page 6.

Colour reproductions, Harper’s Magazine, June 1996.

Roberta Smith.  “Kahn and Selesnick at Monique Knowlton,” The New York Times, May 17, 1996, page 55.

Front Cover Ploughshares, Winter, 1995-96.

Vivian Raynor.  “In Kent, Differing Images and Books as Endangered Species,” The New York Times, May 14, 1995, page 20.

Front Cover and Inner Gatefold  Time Magazine ( Man of the Year Issue, Pope John  Paul II), December 26, 1994, pp. 48-50.

Ann Wilson-Lloyd, “Selesnick and Kahn Collaborate a Clever Conceit,” Cape Cod Arts and Antiques, August, 1994, pp. 18-21.

K.C. Myers.  “Trust: the Collaboration of Nicholas Khan and Richard Selesnick,” Provincetown Arts, Summer, 1993, pp. 91-93.

Robert Taylor.  “Outer Cape Art: Fresh Daily Catch,” The Boston Globe, July 24, 1993, page 27.

Raymond Rigoglioso.  “A Profile of Two Artists: Bog Pastries and Painted Heads from the Royal Excavation Corps,” Provincetown Magazine, July 15, 1993, pp. 16-17.

Ann Wilson Lloyd.  “Gorillas in the Dunes: a Field Report from Provincetown,” Provincetown Arts, Summer, 1992, page 42.

Ann Wilson Lloyd.  “Young Artists, Here and New,” Art New England, May, 1991, page 57. 

Public and Private Collections 

Aperture Magazine

Bergen County Museum of Arts and Sciences, Paramus, NJ

Dow Jones Corporation

Estee Lauder Corporation

Fidelity Corporation

Fogg  Museum of Art, Boston, MA

International Finance Corporation

LaSalle Mortage Corporation

Miller, Anderson, And Sherrard Corporate HQ, Philadelphia, PA

Microsoft Corporation

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Prudential Corporation

Time Magazine

Wellington Management Corporation

World Bank Corporation 

Awards And Honors 

1999, Artists in Residence Program, Addison Gallery, Andover, MA

1995, Provincetown Arts Council Grant

1994, Fine Arts Works Center Fellowship, Provincetown, MA

1987, New Jersey State Council for the Arts Grant 

Education 

Kahn and Selesnick received their BFA’s from Washington University, St. Louis, MO, in  1986.