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.
"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
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Beauty," The
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“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
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Pepper Gallery,” Artnews,
July 1998, page 163.
Grace
Consoli. “Nicholas Kahn and
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1944-46,” Arts Media, May 1998, pp. 18-19.
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Nancy
Stapen. “The Bold Meets the
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Cate
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Joanne
Silver. “Visions Exhibit Draws a
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“Art
Collection,” International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC, 1997.
Selesnick
and Kahn. “Stranger in a Strange Land: a
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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.
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Wilson Lloyd. “Gorillas in the
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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.