Exhibitions & Public Presentations — Selected Highlights
2025
- The Story That Never Ends: The ZKM Collection, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Apr 2025 – Sept 2026
- Videonale.20, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Apr – May 2025
2024
- Circulating Copies, IMAI – Intermedia Art Institute / HuafenKunstKino, Düsseldorf, May 2024
2022
- 2022 Cornell Biennial, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Jul – Oct
2019
- WEB-RETRO, SeMA — Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Jan – Jun
2017
- (id)ea, code++, algorithmic objects, Holon Institute of Technology, Jul – Aug
2016
- Signal to Code, Cornell University Library, Mar – Oct
2014
- International Triennial of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, Jun – Jul
- Ken Feingold: Figures of Speech — Stolen Voices, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk, May – Jul
2013
- Kiasma Hits, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Sept 2013 – Sept 2014
2012
- VIDA 1999–2012, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 2012 – Jan 2013
2010
- Mediations Biennial, National Museum & Zamek Culture Centre, Poznań, Poland, Sept – Oct
2009
- IMAGINING MEDIA @ ZKM, ZKM | Media Museum, Karlsruhe, Oct – Dec
- Voir/Revoir, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Sept
2008
- Tangled Up in You, 21c Museum Foundation, Louisville, Feb – Sept
- Beyond Stereotypes, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (NAK), Aachen, Mar – Apr
- Lúdico-Mordaz, MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica, Apr – May
2007
- Miradas Cruzadas: Cine y antropología, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Oct
- Kempelen — Man in the Machine, Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, Mar 24 – May 28
- Kempelen — Man in the Machine, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Jun 23 – Sept 2
2006
- Ken Feingold, Mejan Labs, Stockholm, Nov – Dec
- TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures, Museum of Modern Art
- Kenneth Feingold: Survey (mid-career), Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
- Kenneth Feingold: Survey, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
- The Other Book, National Museum of Art, Wrocław, May
- Masterpieces of Media Art from the ZKM Collection, ZKM Karlsruhe (through Jan 2007)
2004
- Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Sept 10 – Oct
- Love Me or Leave Me, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Apr 2004 – Feb 2005
- videophantastik, OÖ Landesmuseen Linz, Jun
- Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Tate Liverpool, Nov – Jan 2004
- Invitational, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
2003
- Art, Lies, and Videotape, Tate Liverpool, Nov – Jan 2004
- Standby: No Technical Difficulties, BAM/PFA, Dec
- Hot Summer Cool, Postmasters Gallery, NY, Jun – Jul
- BitParts, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, Mar – Apr
- Smart Cinema, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Apr
2002
- 2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, Mar – May
- Contaminados, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica, Apr – May
- Joy and Revolution, Postmasters Gallery, NY, Jun – Jul
- exposição emoção art.ficial, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Aug – Oct
- media city seoul 2002, Seoul Museum of Art, Sept – Nov
- Fantasy Underfoot, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Dec 2002 – Mar 2003
2001
- Solo exhibition, Postmasters Gallery, NY, May – Jun
- Under the Skin, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, May – Jun
- In the Field of Letters. The Future of Literature, Neue Galerie Graz, Oct – Nov
- Devices of Wonder, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Nov 2001 – Feb 2002
2000
- Alien Intelligence, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Feb – May
- The Skin of the Film, Arsenal, Berlin, Jun
- Cyborg I, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Jun
- Urban Futures, MTN Art Institute, Johannesburg, Jul
- SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games & Art, Beall Center, UC Irvine, Oct – Dec
- Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Oct – Feb 2001
1999
- Solo exhibition, Postmasters Gallery, NY, Feb – Mar
- Goethe Institute Singapore, Mar
- Dark Room, MUCA, Mexico, Mar – Apr
- Lasipalatsi Film and Media Centre, Helsinki, Apr – May
- Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, Sept
- net_condition, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Sept – Jan 2000
1998
- Glut/Fest, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Feb
- Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, NY, Mar – Apr
- Recontres Arts Electroniques, Rennes, Apr
- SurroGate, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Nov – Dec
- Visual Extension — Fantasy and Reality, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Dec 1998 – Jan 1999
1997
- Museum of Modern Art, NY; Technology in the Nineties, Apr
- Interact! Key Works of Interactive Art, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Apr – Jun
- Beware! In Playing the Phantom You Become One, Documenta X / Centre Pompidou (video library)
- Password Ferdydurke, Postmasters Gallery, NY, Oct – Nov
- ICC Biennale 97, InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Oct – Dec
1996 – 1974 (highlights)
- 1996: Postmasters Gallery, NY; CCCB Barcelona; Goethe Institute London; Artifices 4, Saint-Denis; ZKM-Schaufenster; New Langton Arts
- 1995: Biennale de Lyon; Guggenheim Soho; Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles; Mary Anthony Galleries, NY; Viper Festival, Lucerne
- 1994–1990: Numerous screenings/exhibitions incl. SF Cinematheque; Bonn Videonale; MoMA NY; IVAM Valencia; WDR Germany; ICP NY; MonteVideo Amsterdam; ZKM Karlsruhe; Bonn Videonale prize; etc.
- 1989–1983: Whitney Biennials (1983, 1989); MoMA NY; ICA Boston; The Kitchen; international festivals and museum shows (see prior version for full detail)
- 1974–1982: Solo exhibitions, screenings, and group shows incl. SFI, Artists’ Space NY, Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum (solo video installation 1979), MCAD, etc.
For the complete pre-1997 itemization, see the previous edition or contact the studio for a detailed PDF.
Fellowships / Grants / Co-productions / Commissions
- 2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation
- 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- 2003 Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship
- 2002 FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool
- 1999 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
- 1998 ZKM Karlsruhe & i3Net (EU Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces)
- 1997 ICC Biennale, Tokyo
- 1991 New York State Council on the Arts
- 1988 US/Japan Friendship Commission & NEA (Creative Artists Exchange)
- 1988 National Endowment for the Arts
- 1988 New York Foundation for the Arts
- 1987 The Jerome Foundation
- 1987 The Checkerboard Foundation
- 1986 The Bush Foundation Fellowship for Artists
- 1986 Film in the Cities
- 1985 Contemporary Art Television Fund; ICA Boston
- 1985 New York State Council on the Arts
- 1984 The McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Artists
- 1982 The Andrew Mellon Foundation / MCAD
- 1981 National Endowment for the Arts
- 1981 Film in the Cities
- 1979 National Endowment for the Arts
Awards
- 2000 Fundación Telefónica — VIDA 3.0, Madrid
- 1996 DNP Internet ’97 Interactive Award; Dai Nippon Printing, Tokyo
- 1996 Prix Ars Electronica, Honorable Mention, Interactive Art
- 1992 Videonale-Preis, Bonn Videonale
Collections (Institutions)
- Art Center, Pasadena
- Bonn Kunstverein
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- ETH Zürich
- Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
- Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
- Long Beach Museum of Art
- McGill University Library
- Minneapolis College of Art & Design Video Archive
- Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José
- Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Nagoya City Art Museum
- National Gallery of Canada
- National Library of Australia
- New York Public Library
- NYU Bobst Library
- Rotterdam Public Library
- University of Alabama
- University of Maryland
- University of Stockholm Library
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- ZKM — Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
Teaching Experience
- 1977–1985 Minneapolis College of Art & Design — Associate Professor of Fine Art
- 1980/81 San Francisco Art Institute — Guest Faculty
- 1989–1994 Princeton University, Visual Arts Program — Special Lecturer in Visual Art and Council on the Humanities
- 1990–1991 Hunter College, Film & Theater Department — Guest Associate Professor
- 1993–1994 Cooper Union, School of Art — Adjunct Associate Professor
- 1993–1998 School of Visual Arts, New York — Faculty, MFA Photography and MFA Computer Art
Visiting artist talks, workshops, and critiques at Harvard, Brown, Ithaca College, ArtCenter College of Design, CalArts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, Bard College, and The Royal University College of Fine Arts (Stockholm).
Monographs on the Work of Ken Feingold
- Ken Feingold: Figures of Speech, ed. Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, CSW Łaźnia, 2014
- Ken Feingold Selected Works 1978–2007; essays by Matthew Biro, Ken Feingold, Erkki Huhtamo, David James, Robert Riley; Ken Feingold Studio, 2012
Selected Bibliography on the Work of Ken Feingold
- Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art, Timothy C. Murray, University of Minnesota Press, 2022
- The Cabinet of Wolfgang von Kempelen: AI Art and Creative Agency, Dejan Grba; in Possibles, ISEA2022, Barcelona, 2022
- Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation: The Birth of a Medium, Paul Crowther; Routledge, 2019
- Language Art in the Age of Panophonia, MATLIT 6(2):87–98, 2018
- Here/There, Kris Paulsen; MIT Press, 2017
- Emergence in Interactive Art, Jennifer Seevinck; Springer, 2017
- Interactive Digital Art, Penesta Dika; Logos Verlag Berlin, 2017
- … (extensive bibliography continues from 2016 back to 1977 as in prior edition)
For the full annotated bibliography (1977–2022), request the complete PDF from the studio.
Selection of Published Writings by Ken Feingold
- Review of Janine Burke, The Sphinx on the Table, Modern Psychoanalysis 31(2):317–327, 2006
- The Interactive Art Gambit, Technology in the Nineties / MoMA (1997); revised in New Screen Media, BFI, 2001
- where I can see my house from here so we are, Parachute 85, 1997
- OU: Interactivity as Divination as Vending Machine, Leonardo 28(5), 1995
- The Soft Accident, ISEA-Online, 1994
- Childhood / Hot & Cold Wars (The Appearance of Nature), in Iterations: The New Image, ICP/MIT, 1994
- … (additional essays and statements from 1984 onward preserved in the PDF edition)
CD-ROMs and DVDs
- artintact 3: JCJ-Junkman, with essay by Erkki Huhtamo, ZKM & Cantz, 1996
- Media Art History, Hans-Peter Schwarz, ZKM Media Museum, 1997
- Hardware Software Artware, ZKM & Cantz, 1997
- Orpheus, limited edition, Ken Feingold, 1996
- 3rd Biennale de art contemporain de Lyon, 1995
- New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative, BFI, 2001 (book and DVD)
- Ken Feingold — film and video work 1970–1995, 2× Blu-ray, edition of 10, Ken Feingold Studio, 2020
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Updated November 2025