T. Kelly Mason

Mason’s first Post-it Note collages were first shown in the Wohinkeinaugereicht in the Arbeitskreises für Photographie Hamburg in 1998. Mason’s Post-it notes float semi-casual text in juxtaposition with the image. In 2013 he published these interventions in the Bass Museums of Art’s member’s magazine using the Bass Archive and delivering philosophical commentary on the contents of the contents of the magazine.

In 1993 Mason was included in a group project called Tattoo Collection for the gallery Air de Paris, for which artists designed tattoos that needn’t be implemented upon a human body, raising the question whether it was the drawing or the executed tattoo that is the artwork.

Mason is married to video artist Diana Thater. Since completing the Graduate Art track at ArtCenter College of Design in 1990, Mason and Thater have collaborated on numerous projects, notably the 16mm film JUMP which was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and features twenty children jumping rope to live performances of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, for which Mason served as co-producer, music director and bass guitarist.

Mason earned his Bachelor of Arts from California State University at Long Beach in 1988 where he studied music and liberal arts. In 1990 he earned his Masters of Fine Arts at ArtCenter College of Design. Mason studied with Stephen Prina and Mike Kelley.

T. Kelly Mason (born 1964) is a Los Angeles-based post-conceptual artist, writer, and educator who works in a number of media, including video, music, sculpture, and text. Mason has taught at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena since 2001.