birth_place awards nationality field birth_date article_title name
los angeles , california , u.s. john fellowship ,2008 / foundation for contemporary arts grants to artists simon award , 1999 . guggenheim fellowship , 2008/fellows of contemporary art american performance art/sculpture 1960 martin kersels
 martin kersels
martin kersels

martin kersels is an american contemporary artist born in 1960 in los angeles .
kersels ' work is often installation based and incorporates sculpture , photography and video .
in 1999 kersels and author/artist leslie dick were jointly selected `` to run the arts program '' at calarts at the california institute of the arts -lrb- calarts -rrb- .
kersels served as co-director of the calarts program in art until he moved to the yale school of art , where in 2012 he became associate professor and director of graduate studies in sculpture .
