CAROLINE KENT
Born 1975, Sterling, IL
Lives and works in Chicago, IL

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    PROCLAMATIONS FROM THE DEEP

     

    This space for correspondence

    Caroline Kent | La Trienal at El Museo del Barrio

    Caroline Kent | Queens Museum Mural

    Caroline Kent | An Improvisation of Form | Figge Art Museum

    Caroline Kent in Conversation | The Brooklyn Rail

    CAROLINE KENT | MCA CHICAGO | AUGUST 2021

    Caroline Kent: ArtForum Magazine

    CAROLINE KENT | JOYCE ALEXANDER WEIN ARTIST PRIZE | THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM

    Tip toeing through hallways, a waltz of secrecy

    2024

    Acrylic on Belgian linen, resin and oil paint inlay, ebonized walnut

    30 x 36.25 x 2" / 75.9 x 92.1 x 5.1cm

    A bouquet of quick glances and half smiles

    2024

    Acrylic on Belgian linen and white oak

    30 x 36.25 x 2" / 75.9 x 92.1 x 5.1cm

    Installation view: Flow States: La Trienal 2024, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, October 10. 2024 - February 9, 2025

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, A short play about watching shadows move across the room, December 2023-December 2024, Large Wall at the Queens Museum, Queens, NY

    In matters such as these, we remark without words, 2022

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    105 x 81" / 266.7 x 205.74cm

    Installation view: The Modern Window: Caroline Kent, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 2022 - October 2023. Photo: Dan Bradica.

    Installation view: The Modern Window: Caroline Kent, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 2022 - October 2023. Photo: Dan Bradica.

    The courage to venture to the edge of reason, 2022

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    104.5 x 83"/ 265.43 x 210.82cm

    Installation view: Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, July 8, 2022–October 16, 2022. Photo: Midge Wattles and Ariel Ione Williams © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.

    Installation view: Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, July 8, 2022–October 16, 2022. Photo: Midge Wattles and Ariel Ione Williams © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.

    A Dark Hymn

    2021

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    103.25 x 81.25" / 262.23 x 206.38cm

    Installation view: The Sounds Among Us, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), April 27–October 30, 2022. Photo: j. arnold, impart photography.

    Sometimes blending in is shutting your eyes and walking across an intersection at midday, 2022

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    103 x 81.5" / 261.6 x 207cm

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    Through the crack under the door

    2021

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    103 x 81.5” / 261.62 x 207.01cm

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    Beyond the limits of everyday musings

    2021

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    104.25 x 82.25” / 264.8 x 208.92cm

    Night Emporium

    2021

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    101 x 81.25” / 256.54 x 206.38cm

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    A nod of the head / A glance over one’s shoulder

    2021

    Acrylic on raw Belgian linen, acrylic on wood

    64 x 74 x 1.5” / 162.56 x 187.96 x 3.81cm

    Tsk, tsk, tsk

    2021

    Acrylic on raw Belgian linen, acrylic on wood

    63 x 74 x 1.5” / 160.02 x 187.96 x 3.81cm

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    The way she would write out her name as if it were a ballad

    2021

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    102.25 x 80.5” / 259.72 x 204.47cm

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    A telltale sign

    2021

    Acrylic on raw Belgian linen, acrylic on wood

    63 x 74 x 1.5” / 160.02 x 187.96 x 3.81cm

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    A memory that confronts you in your dreams

    2021

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    104.25 x 81.75” / 264.8 x 207.65cm

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    An endearment

    2021

    Acrylic on raw Belgian linen, cement, wood

    27.63 x 11 x 1.5” / 70.17 x 27.94 x 3.81cm

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    The endurance of daylight

    2021

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    102.75 x 81” / 260.99 x 205.74cm

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    Cloaked Ruminations

    2021

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    103.75 x 81.25” / 263.53 x 206.38cm

    Pursuit of lesser-known ambitions

    2021

    Acrylic on raw Belgian linen, acrylic on wood

    63 x 74 x 1.5” / 160.02 x 187.96 x 3.81cm

    In the company of strangers

    2021

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    104.75 x 82.25” / 266.06 x 208.92cm

    of varying degrees

    2021

    Acrylic on canvas

    50.25 x 30” / 127 x 76.2cm

    A most fantastic discovery

    2021

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    104 x 81.75” / 264.16 x 207.65cm

    Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, September 9 - October 23, 2021

    Untitled (Obelisk)

    2021

    Walnut

    80 x 7.75 x 7.75” / 203.2 x 19.69 x 19.69cm

    She had this way about her words

    2021

    Acrylic on canvas

    50 x 30''/ 127 x 76.2cm

    To elucidate one’s own paradigm, pt. 2

    2021

    Acrylic on canvas

    47.5 x 34.75''/ 120.65 x 88.27cm

    Some words hang in the air, but the air is where?

    2021

    Acrylic on canvas

    50 x 30''/ 127 x 76.2cm

    To elucidate one’s own paradigm, pt. 1

    2021

    Acrylic on canvas

    47.5 x 34.75''/ 120.65 x 88.27cm

    Installation view: Chicago Works: Caroline Kent, MCA Chicago, August 3, 2021–April 3, 2022. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

    Installation view: Chicago Works: Caroline Kent, MCA Chicago, August 3, 2021–April 3, 2022. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

    A likeness that bears a resemblance

    2020

    Acrylic on paper

    Paper size: 30 x 22''/ 76.2 x 55.88cm Framed: 32.5 x 24.5''/ 82.55 x 62.23cm

    One’s instinct versus One’s virtues

    2020

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    107 x 81'' / 271.8 x 205.2cm

    Detail, One’s instinct versus One’s virtues

    2020

    A Tumult

    2020

    Acrylic on paper

    30 x 22” / 76.2 x 55.9cm

    Notes on moving things out of one’s way

    2020

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    105 x 81” / 266.7 x 205.7cm

    Detail, Notes on moving things out of one’s way

    2020

    A clever statement hanging in the air, and clock strokes

    2017

    Acrylic on paper

    30 x 22'' / 76.2 x 55.9cm

    A chart for disillusionment and chance

    2020

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    105 x 81.5'' / 266.7 x 207cm

    Detail, A chart for disillusionment and chance

    2020

    A common equation for uncommon encounters, pt. 2

    2019

    Acrylic on paper

    30 x 22” / 76.2 x 55.9cm

    Incantation

    2019

    Acrylic on paper

    Paper size: 30 x 22''/ 76.2 x 55.88cm Framed: 32.5 x 24.5''/ 82.55 x 62.23cm

    A chart for plotting ones disbelief

    2019

    Acrylic on paper

    Paper size: 30 x 22''/ 76.2 x 55.88cm Framed: 32.5 x 24.5''/ 82.55 x 62.23cm

    Forms to Accompany a Procession

    2018

    Acrylic on paper

    Paper size: 30 x 22''/ 76.2 x 55.88cm each Framed: 32.5 x 24.5''/ 82.55 x 62.23cm each

    To speak before spoken to

    2018

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas and latex on wood

    Painting: 111 x 83''/ 281.94 x 210.82cm Sculpture: 74 x 15 x 21'' / 187.96 x 38.1 x 53.34cm

    Slow pulse on a hard edge

    2017

    Acrylic on canvas

    50 x 30''/ 127 x 76.2cm

    The Myth of Shadows

    2019

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    108 x 72'' / 274.3 x 182.9cm

    Installation view, LATINXAMERICAN, January 7 – August 15, 2021, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago

    Her face, a disguise

    2015

    Acrylic paint and typewriter ink on paper

    8 x 10'' / 20.3 x 25.4cm

    Installation view, Caroline Kent: A Form Walks Toward You in the Dark, February 5 - March 15, 2020, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ

    Installation view, Caroline Kent: A Form Walks Toward You in the Dark, February 5 - March 15, 2020, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ

    How to tell time when the air has left the room

    2018

    Acrylic on paper

    30 x 22'' / 76.2 x 55.9cm

    Installation view, Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, MCA Chicago, February 29–September 13, 2020

    A sound becomes a symbol

    2018

    Acrylic on paper

    30 x 22'' / 76.2 x 55.9cm

    Installation view, Writing Forms, Hawthorn Contemporary, 2020, Milwaukee, WI

    Set design for a play about the folding of one's hands

    2017

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    108 x 72'' / 272.3 x 182.9cm

    Installation view, Victoria/Veronica: The Figment between Us, September 13 - October 24, 2020, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago

    Installation view, Victoria/Veronica: The Figment between Us, September 13 - October 24, 2020, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago

    Installation view, Victoria/Veronica: The Figment between Us, September 13 - October 24, 2020, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago

    Installation view, Victoria/Veronica: The Figment between Us, September 13 - October 24, 2020, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago

    Installation view, Victoria/Veronica: The Figment between Us, September 13 - October 24, 2020, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago

    Installation view, Victoria/Veronica: The Figment between Us, September 13 - October 24, 2020, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago

    An emblem from a sweater becomes a marking on the wall

    2017

    Acrylic on canvas

    50 x 30''/ 127 x 76.2cm

    Installation view, How Objects Move Through Walls, 2018, Company Projects, Minneapolis, MN

    Installation view, How Objects Move Through Walls, 2018, Company Projects, Minneapolis, MN

    Installation view, How Objects Move Through Walls, 2018, Company Projects, Minneapolis, MN

    Further and farther than one expects

    2015

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    99.875 x 70.75'' / 253.6 x 179.7cm

    Installation view, Beyond the Kármán Line, September 8 – October 20, 2018, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN

    Installation view, Beyond the Kármán Line, September 8 – October 20, 2018, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN

    Its like magic..

    2015

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    108 x 72'' / 272.3 x 182.9cm

    Installation view, Joyful is the Dark, 2016, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN

    Procession

    2015

    Acrylic on unstretched canvas

    108 x 72'' / 272.3 x 182.9cm

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