Kyle Thurman, Dream Police (Our chest), 2023, acrylic dispersion, oil, and watercolour on panel in artist’s frame, 126,7 x 187,7 x 7,3 cm
Kyle Thurman, Dream Police (Our chest), 2023 (detail)
Kyle Thurman, Birthday Pack (Mask two), 2023, monotype (collagraph) in artist’s frame, oil-based ink on paper, 44 x 60 x 4,5 cm
Kyle Thurman, Birthday pack (Mask one), 2023, monotype (collagraph) in artist’s frame, oil-based ink on paper, 44 x 60 x 4,5 cm
Kyle Thurman, Birthday pack (Mask three), 2023, monotype (collagraph) in artist’s frame,oil-based ink on paper, 44 x 60 x 4,5 cm
Kyle Thurman, Birthday pack (Mask five), 2023, monotype (collagraph) in artist’s frame, oil-based ink on paper, 44 x 60 x 4,5 cm
Kyle Thurman, Birthday pack (Mask four), 2023, monotype (collagraph) in artist’s frame, oil-based ink on paper, 44 x 60 x 4,5 cm
Kyle Thurman, Dream Police, installation view, SOPHIE TAPPEINER at CFA Milan, 2023
Kyle Thurman, Dream Police (My breast), 2022, acrylic dispersion, gouache, oil, watercolor on PVA primed paper and Dibond panel in artist’s frame, 126,7 x 187,6 x 7,3 cm
Kyle Thurman, Parade, New York, David Lewis, 2022
Kyle Thurman, Crown (model monument, emotion), 2022, with altar by Lesser Miracle, patinated bronze and wood, 36,83 x 62,23 x 44,45 cm (sculpture), 76,2 x 177,8 x 83,82 cm (altar)
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 59, 2020, charcoal, gouache, oil, oil pastel, and watercolor on paper in artist’s frame, 59,4 x 79,7 x 4,5 cm
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 59, 2020 (detail)
Hadi Fallahpisheh and Kyle Thurman, CATFISH, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2020
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 63 (man with child, Inherited Shadow), 2020, colored pencil, gouache, graphite, and watercolor on paper in artist’s frame, 100 x 125,5 x 4,5 cm
Hadi Fallahpisheh and Kyle Thurman, CATFISH, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2020
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 61 (Money Mask), 2020, graphite, gouache, and watercolor on paper in artist’s frame, 105 x 150,8 x 4,5 cm
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 61 (Money Mask), 2020 (detail)
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 58 (Choir), 2020 Pastel and oil pastel on paper in artist’s frame, 96.5 x 95.9 x 4.5 cm
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 58 (Choir), 2020 (detail)
Suggest Occupation 57 (pastel fog, or sleep paralysis), 2020 Gouache, graphite and watercolor on paper in artist’s frame, 110 x 160.9 x 4.5 cm
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 54 (Admiral), 2020,Pastel, oil pastel, and watercolor on seamless paper in artist’s frame, 122 x 185,5 x 4,4 cm
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 51 (Heard Through Bone), 2020, Acrylic, charcoal, and pastel on seamless paper in artist’s frame, 157,50 x 207,6 x 4,4 cm
Kyle Thurman, Heard Through Bone, installation view, Central Fine, 2020
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 35, 2020, Charcoal, oil pastel, and pastel on seamless paper in artist’s frame, 107,6 x 148,4 x 4,4 cm
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 32, 2020, charcoal, graphite, oil pastel, and pastel on seamless paper in artist’s frame, 136,8 x 194 x 4,4 cm
Kyle Thurman, Error Erred, installation view, David Lewis, New York, 2020
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 28, 2016 – 2019, charcoal, ink, and pastelon seamless paper in artist’s frame, 60,6 x 94,6 cm (23 7/8 in x 37 1/4 in)
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 22, 2018 , charcoal, marker, oil, pastel, andpencil on seamless paper in artist’s frame, 107,8 x 111,7 cm (42 7/16 in x 44 in)
Kyle Thurman, installation view, Whitney Biennial at Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art, New York, 2019
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 30, 2019, charcoal, gouache, ink, andpastel on seamless paper in artist’s frame, 193,7 x 128 cm (76 1/4 in x 50 3/8 in)
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 9, 2017 – 2018 , acrylic, charcoal, encaustic,and pastel on seamless paper in artist’s frame, 63,5 x 75,3 cm (25 in x 29 5/8 in)
Kyle Thurman, installation view, Whitney Biennial at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2019
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 25, 2018, charcoal, ink, and pastel onseamless paper in artist’s frame, 89 x 99 cm (35 in x 39 in)
Kyle Thurman, Tremoring Cup, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2018
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 23, 2018, charcoal, and pastel on seamless paper in artist’s frame, 96,6 x 72,6 cm (38 in x 28 5/8 in)
Kyle Thurman, Tremoring Cup, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2018
Kyle Thurman, Misfortune (Path), 2018 , gouache, graphite, and watercolor onpaper, 41,5 x 36,7 cm (16 3/8 in x 14 7/16 in)
Kyle Thurman, Guilt/Shame (Path), 2018 , gouache, graphite, and watercolor onpaper, 41,5 x 36,7 cm (16 3/8 in x 14 7/16 in)
Kyle Thurman, Fear (Path), 2018 , gouache, graphite, and watercolor on paper, 41,5 x 36,7 cm (16 3/8 in x 14 7/16 in)
Kyle Thurman, Envy/Jealousy (Path), 2018, gouache, graphite, and watercolor on paper, 41,5 x 36,7 cm (16 3/8 in x 14 7/16 in)
Kyle Thurman, Anger (Path), 2018, gouache, graphite, and watercolor on paper, 41,5 x 36,7 cm (16 3/8 in x 14 7/16 in)
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 13, 2016 – 2018, charcoal, marker, pastel, and pencil on seamless paper in artist’s frame, 114,3 cm x 86,7 cm (45 in x 34 1/8 in)
Kyle Thurman, Suggested Occupation 12, 2017 , charcoal,colored pencil, marker, pastel, and watercolor on seamless paperin artist’s frame, 106 x 170,8 cm (41 3/4 in x 67 1/4 in)
Kyle Thurman, matches, 2016, cast cobalt blue glass and nail, 40,6 x 40,6 x 5 cm (16 in x 16 in x 2 in)
Kyle Thurman, A Lonely Butcher, installation view, Off Vendome, New York, 2016
Bio
Kyle Thurman (*1986, lives and works in New York, New York) is an artist and educator working primarily with painting and sculpture. Thurman currently lives and works in Brooklyn. He received BA degrees in both film studies and visual arts from Columbia University, New York (2009) and an MFA in painting from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2016). From 2011 through 2012, Thurman studied as a guest student at the Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, in the classes of Christopher Williams and Peter Doig. An installation of drawings from his project Suggested Occupation was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Recent solo and duo shows include Made Up Men at Tureen, Dallas in April 2024, Accumulator at SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna in October 2023, Dream Police at CFA, Milan in May 2023, Dream Police at CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach, in April 2023, and Parade at David Lewis Gallery, New York, in September 2022.
Thurman’s work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, among other institutions.