Ken Feingold

Ken Feingold
"Self Portrait as the Center of the Universe" (2001, detail)
Born	1952 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Education	Antioch College CalArts B.F.A., M.F.A
Known for	Media Art

Antioch College

Kenneth Feingold (USA, 1952 - ) is a contemporary American artist based in New York. He has been exhibiting his work in video, drawing, film, sculpture, and installations since 1974. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship(2003) and has taught at Princeton University and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, among others. His works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Liverpool, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and many other museums.

Feingold was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1952 and moved to New York with his family in 1956. He studied at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio under Paul Sharits, making experimental 16mm films and film installations and working at The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York.

In 1971 he moved to San Francisco. Later he transferred to CalArts and moved to Los Angeles. His teachers at CalArts included John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, Michael Asher (artist), David Antin and Pat O'Neill. He worked as studio assistant for John Baldessari until 1976, when he graduated from CalArts with an MFA. His first solo exhibition of 16mm films was held at Millennium Film Workshop, New York, and he was included in the group exhibitions "Text & Image" and "Stills" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Other solo exhibitions in the early 1970s included Gallery A-402, CalArts, Valencia and Claire S. Copley Gallery, Los Angeles. Three video works were included in the "Southland Video Anthology", a group exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art.