Kyle Alden Martens

Kyle Alden Martens (b.1989) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Montréal. He graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in 2015 with a BFA in Intermedia. He has worked as an Arts Administrator (NS Centre for Craft and Design), Installer (Anna Leonowens Gallery), and Gallery Assistant (Art Gallery of Swift Current). Martens has presented work with the Khyber Centre for the Arts, Eyelevel Gallery, and the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, NS and Stride Gallery in Calgary, AB. You can find him online, studying french, or working in his studio preparing for an upcoming solo show at Eastern Edge Gallery in St. John’s, NL.

I would like to thank my partner Brandon Brookbank for his continued and guiding support, for producing the promotional images, performing in the video piece, and helping to install. Cason Sharpe and Cameron Cummings for also performing in the video and Maddie Mcneely for her technical assistance during shooting. Thank-you to Arts Nova Scotia for funding the production of the sandals and clothing in this exhibition. Thanks to Emploi-Quebec, specifically the program Jeunes Volontaires, for funding the video. Thanks to my mentor Anna Hawkins for her gentle and uplifting guidance. Thank you to Atelier Clark for putting together lovely plinths for my work. Thank-you to the Centre Clark team for seeing potential in my work and granting me this opportunity.