MICHAEL KESSLER

Michael Kessler was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He received a B.F.A. from Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania in 1978. His awards include the Rome Prize for Painting, American Academy in Rome in 1990, and a Pollock/Krasner Award in Painting in 1992. Kessler's work has been widely exhibited in the US and abroad, and has been featured in over 70 solo exhibitions since 1983. His paintings are widely collected and appear in over 20 museum collections in the US, including the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY: the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Franciso, CA. Kessler lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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