Kyle Thurman

Kyle Thurman is an artist based in New York who was born in 1986. He received his BA in Film Studies and Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2009, and later studied as a guest student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the classes of Christopher Williams and Peter Doig from 2011 to 2012. Thurman completed his MFA in painting at Bard College in 2016.

Since 2015, Thurman's practice has focused on an expansive drawing project titled Suggested Occupation, which examines the portrayal of conditioned cultural violence and the maintenance of institutional violence in the media through the lens of male bodies in both a journalistic and diaristic manner.

Thurman has participated in several solo and duo exhibitions, including "Parade" at David Lewis Gallery in New York City, "Bad Reflections" with Hadi Fallahpisheh at Planet Earth LLC in New Haven, "CATFISH" with Hadi Fallahpisheh at SOPHIE TAPPEINER in Vienna, and "Heard Through Bone" at Central Fine in Miami Beach. He has also participated in various group exhibitions such as "Whitney Biennial" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, "FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial" in Cleveland, and "On Kindness: Jacob Kassay & Kyle Thurman" at MOCA Tuscon.

Thurman's work is included in the permanent collection of several institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the De la Cruz Collection, and the ICA Miami.