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Artists

Marc Kokopeli

b. 1987, New York, USA; lives and works in New York, USA.

Marc Kokopeli is an artist working across sculpture, installation, and moving image whose practice explores the intersections of childhood, popular culture, and contemporary capitalism. Drawing on the visual language of cartoons, educational programming, advertising, and early digital culture, he transforms familiar imagery into installations that explore identity, memory, nostalgia, and systems of social conditioning. Through humour, repetition, and absurdity, Kokopeli considers how entertainment, education, and consumer culture shape psychological development from an early age.

A defining aspect of his work is the incorporation of obsolete media technologies, including CRT televisions, novelty television sets, and other outdated audiovisual devices. These objects function as both sculptural forms and conceptual tools, evoking the material environments through which previous generations encountered media. By combining ageing technologies with digital animation and found footage, Kokopeli creates installations that oscillate between playful familiarity and critique, exposing the ideological structures embedded within everyday cultural experience.

Marc Kokopeli's recent solo exhibitions include It's a Pink Area (with Sydney Schrader), Casa São Roque, Porto (2026); Now We Are on Easy Street, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2025); MY TV SHOW I ❤️ TV, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York (2025); Die rings, La Pulce, Rome (2024); Meeting People Is Easy, Édouard Montassut, Paris (2022); die Pampertaarten, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York (2022); How to Start a Highschool Underground (with Adam Martin), Établissement d'en face, Brussels (2019); 90% Years Later, Lomex, New York (2018); Tales of the Veil, Édouard Montassut, Paris (2017); and Songs of Hammys, Lomex, New York (2016). Selected group exhibitions include Greater New York 2026, MoMA PS1, New York (2026); Terminal Piece, MUMOK, Vienna (2026); HOUSEKEEPING IN A DANGEROUS TIME, Sapieha Palace, Vilnius (2026); Olivia Shao Selects: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2026); Kunstindustrie, Seventeen, London (2026); The Family Guns, Reena Spaulings Fine Art Presents, Hussenot, Paris (2025); On Education, Amant Foundation, Brooklyn (2025); Looking Back / The 13th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York (2023); In the Shadows of Tall Necessities, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2022); La réforme de Pooky, Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg (2022); Life and Limbs, Swiss Institute, New York (2019)

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