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“Hawai,” an exhibition of works by artist Kim Schoen (b. 1969) started on March 11 and will run through April 22, 2017 at Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles.
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“duh? Art & Stupidity” looks at stupidity as a subject and a tactic of art making, with a particular focus on its relationship to the politics and performance of identity.
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Kim Schoen received an MFA in photography from the California Institute of the Arts in 2005 and a Master of Philosophy from the photography department at The Royal College of Art in 2008. Her work in photography, video installation, text, and performance takes on the rhetorics of display in consumer culture. Recent exhibitions of her work include Fontane Gurgulear (LAMOA, Los Angeles), Have You Never Let Someone Else Be Strong, (MMoCA, solo show), duh? Art & Stupidity (Focal Point Gallery, UK), Imitation Game (Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE), Remembering Forward: (LAXART, Los Angeles), Objective Considerations of Contemporary Phenomena (MOTInternational Projects, London), Stupidious (South London Gallery, London), and Unsparing Quality (Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles). Schoen’s work has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, and her essays on repetition and photography (“The Serial Attitude Redux”, “The Expansion of the Instant”) have been published in X-TRA Quarterly for Contemporary Art. Her most recent photographic essay was published in Issue VII of E.R.O.S. Press, London. Kim is also the co-founder and editor of MATERIAL, a journal of writing by artists.
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