Kelly Reemtsen

Biography

Kelly Reemtsen [b. 1967, Flint, Michigan] is best known for her bright and bold paintings of women carrying household tools such as chainsaws or axes. Her work often investigates the role of the modern woman, deconstructing societal perceptions of gender, power and femininity. Reemtsen's paintings are characterized by their thick impasto, stark white backgrounds, and anonymous figures.

 

Reemtsen is currently based in Los Angeles. She studied fashion design and painting at Central Michigan University and California State University Long Beach. Reemtsen has been involved with printmaking since the 1990s, studying etching and screenprinting in workshops and with educators across the United States.  Kelly Reemtsen’s work has been exhibited widely in North America, and is part of the Twentieth Century Fox and AT&T corporate collections.
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KELLY REEMTSEN 

Present                 Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and London, UK 

 

1988-1990             California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 

 

1985-1987              BFA, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 

 

1967                          Born in Flint, MI 

 

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITS

 

2022                          Up Rising, Galleri Oxholm, Copenhagen, DK

                                     Kelly Reemtsen: Multiples: A 10-Year Survey, albertz benda,

                                      Los Angeles, CA 

 

2020                           Kelly Reemtsen: The Shape of Things, albertz benda, New

                                      York, NY 

 

2019                             Kelly Reemtsen, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI 

 

2018                             Value, albertz benda, New York, NY 

                                       Lyndsey Ingram, London UK Fall 2018 

                                       Galeri Oxholm, Copenhagen DK June 2018 

 

2016                             Kelly Reemtsen, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI  

 

2015                            Smashing, De Buck Gallery, New York, NY 

 

2014                            Equal Opportunity, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 
 

2013                            America’s Sweetheart, De Buck Gallery, New York, NY 
 

2012                            Paper and Chalk, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa

                                      Monica, CA 

                                       It’s All Up to You, Adler & Company, San Francisco, CA 

 

2011                                Clean, Skidmore Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA 

                                      New Paintings, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 

                                      Circa, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA 

 

2010                           It’s My Party, Adler & Company, San Francisco, CA 

                                      I’m Not Falling For You,  Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa

                                     Monica, CA 

 

2009                          Recent Paintings, Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 

                                      Striving for Perfection, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 

                                      Recent Paintings, Campton Gallery,  NY 

 

2007                          Recent Paintings, Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 

 

2006                              Process & Palette, de Soto, Los Angeles, CA 
                                      Object Lessons, University Art Gallery, California State

                                     University, Dominguez Hills, CA 

 

2005                              Good Living, de Soto, Los Angeles, CA 

                                      All Through the House, Metro Gallery, Pasadena, CA 

                                      Time Line, ONE Gallery, Palm Springs, CA 

 

2003                          Lifestyle, Gallery 825, Santa Monica, CA 

                                      Three Decades of Design, Risk Art Press, West Hollywood, CA

 

2002                          Dress, Metro Gallery, Pasadena, CA 

  

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2022                           Endless Summer, albertz benda, Los Angeles, CA 

 

2021                            THIS IS AMERICA, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, DE 

                                       A View From L.A.: Kim McCarty & Kelly Reemtsen, David

                                      Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI 

 

2020                           Fragmented Bodies, albertz benda, New York, NY 

 

2015                            First Show, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI 

 

2014                            Inaugural Exhibition, De Buck Gallery, Antwerp, BE 

                                      Art Silicon Valley, San Mateo, CA 

 

2012                            Candy, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA 

                                       Fashion, Conflict and Money, De Buck Gallery, NY 

 

2009                           Paintings, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA 

                                       Personal Territory, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 

                                       Contemporary Masters, Pasadena Museum of History,

                                      Pasadena, CA 

 

2008                           Summer Select, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 

 

2007                           Fresh, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 

 

2006                           Four Printmakers, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford

                                      College, Haverford, PA 

                                       Best in Show, De Soto, Los Angeles, CA 

                                       Object Lessons, University Art Gallery, CSUDH, Carson, CA 

 

2004                           Gallery Artists, One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 

                                       Chromatic Aberrations, ANDLAB, Los Angeles, CA