Mike Kelley
Birthday
1954/10/27
Day of death
2012/01/31 (57 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Wayne, Michigan, USA
Also know as
Michael Kelley
Biography
Mike Kelley was one of the most provocative and influential figures in contemporary art. His idiosyncratic works negotiate a charged terrain of desire, dread and sociopathology in everyday life. With deadpan humor, he invests childhood toys, kitsch, and ordinary objects with subversive meaning. His video projects, often created with collaborators such as Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, and Tony Oursler, inhabit a peculiarly American landscape infused with irony and pop cultural debris. - - - -...Read more
Acting
(1980) Garage Sale II
as ---
(1995) Grow Live Monsters
as Manson victim - sax player
(1992) Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
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(1987) Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)
as Son
(1989) Sir Drone
as Jinx
(1990) Made in Hollywood
as ---
(1986) Cinderella
as Accordian Player
(1989) Blind Country
as ---
(1986) Kappa
as The Kappa
(1983) The Banana Man
as ---
(1992) After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
as Self
(1979) The Broken Rule
as ---
(2006) Day Is Done
as Narrator