We Ain't dED Yet

“The ‘Let Art Be Training In the Practice of Freedom’ shirt was in my show of the same name, and is a humble attempt at honouring Vivienne Westwood for everything she did trying to transform society.” - Kyle Goen

"Why am I participating in this year’s edition of Art The Arms Fair? Any chance to act in solidarity with Palestine or with people working in solidarity with Palestine, is a must for me." - Kyle Goen

http://www.kylegoen.net
@kyledidthis

Kyle Goen (b. 1967) is multidisciplinary artist and founding member of AKA Exit, an art collective that combines research, aesthetics and action in its practice. Kyle is a core member of Direct Action Front for Palestine and Decolonial Cultural Front, MTL+, the collective facilitating Decolonize This Place, an action-oriented movement and decolonial formation that blurs the lines between art and activism around six strands of struggle: Indigenous Struggle, Black Liberation, Free Palestine, Global Wage Worker, De-Gentrification and Dismantle Patriarchy. Kyle is also an active member of Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.), and is most recently involved in Strike MoMA working group of the International Imagination of Anti-national and Anti-imperialist Feelings (IIAAF).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Let Art Be Training in the Practice of Freedom, Empty Circle, Brooklyn, New York, 2023
What Time is it on the Clock of the World? What is to be Done?, Slought, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2022
When We Breathe We Breathe Together, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, 2021
Dawson’s Field, Dumbo Arts Festival, Superfine, Brooklyn, New York, 2012
The Voice The Arms Itself To Be Heard, Dash Gallery, New York, New York, 2010
Six Feet Under: Make Nice, White Box New York, New York, 2004
Elect a Madman You Get Madness, Stay Gold Gallery/Art Space Brooklyn, New York, 2004
Red black blue green yellow dirty, 5+5 Gallery Brooklyn, New York, 2001
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, Massachusetts, 2022
Nations By Artists, Art Museum University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 2022
Mapping Narratives: New Prints 2021/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York, New York, 2021
Darkest Before Dawn: Art In A Time Of Uncertainty, Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, New York, 2020
Good Trouble, White Box Harlem, New York, New York, 2020
Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom, moCa Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, 2020
Anti-Columbus Day Tour: IV, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, 2019
Kanders Must Go: Nine Weeks of Action, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, 2019
Assemble at the Whitney, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, 2018
Anti-Columbus Day Tour: III, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, 2018
Multilayered: New Prints 2018/Summer, International Print Center New York, New York, New York, 2018
Decolonize This Museum: A Demand For A Decolonization Commission (Action), Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 2018
Now: The Call and Look of Freedom, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 2018
Anti-Columbus Day Tour: II, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, 2017
Commonwealth: Water For All, Queens Museum, Queens, New York, 2017
The Design of Dissent, Non-Breaking Space, Seattle, Washington, 2017
Acts of Sedition, White Box, New York, 2016
Decolonize This Museum: Anti-Columbus Day Tour, American Museum of Natural History, New York 2016
Decolonize This Place, Artists Space, New York, 2016
NYC Stands With Standing Rock - Action, Washington Square Park, New York, 2016
Prince and Other Departed Legends, Civilian Art Projects, Washington D.C, 2016
CrossLines: A Culture Lab on Intersectionality, Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building, Washington DC, 2016
Decolonize This Place, Decolonial Cultural Front, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 2016
#makeamericagreatagain, White Box, New York, New York, 2016
Manifest: Justice, TaskForce, Los Angeles, California, 2015
May Day Occupation, Global Ultra Luxury Faction (GULF), Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2015 
Respond, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York, 2015
Who’s Chelsea Manning?, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York, 2013
Got the Message? Fifty years of political posters, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Australia, 2013
Cultural Transference, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, New York, 2012
This is What Democracy Looks Like, NYU Gallatin Galleries, New York, 2011
Art Is, Dash Gallery, New York, 2010
Party Headquarters: Voting is Just the Beginning, Pratt Manhattan Gallery New York, 2008
Alumni Show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 2007
Propaganda 3, START SOMA Gallery San Francisco, California, 2007
What War?, White Box, New York, 2006
War and Peace, Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, New York. Traveled to The Brecht Forum New York, New York, 2006
America vs. America, Gallery KlinkogBang Reykjavik, Iceland. Traveled to 300m3 Art Space Göteborg, Sweden, 2005

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

British Museum, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, USA
Giorgio Armani Private Collection
Erica Write aka Erykah Badu Private Collection
Damon Dash Private Collection
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, USA
Bucknell University, USA
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Germany
Ampersand Foundation, UK
The Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
University of California at Berkeley, The Bancroft Library, USA
University of California at Irvine (UCI), USA
University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA
University of Puget Sound: Collins Memorial Library, USA
University of Southern California, USA 
Oberlin College, USA
Tufts University, USA
University of Illinois, USA
Cornell, USA
Library of Congress, USA 
Smith College, USA
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 
St. Olaf Collage, USA
College of St Benedict & St. John’s, USA 
Occidental College, USA
Temple University, USA
University of Central Florida, USA
University of California, San Diego, USA
Trinity College, USA
Wesleyan University, USA
Emory University, USA
St. Olaf College, USA