Halsey Rodman is an artist based in New York

New York

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.

Rodman was born in Davis

Davis

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, California

California

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. He makes installations

Installation art

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 containing assemblages, videos

Video art

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, photography

Photography

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, text and figurative sculpture

Sculpture

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, which form mythological narratives. Common motifs in Rodman’s work are hexagons, clouds of smoke

Smoke

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, pickles

Pickling

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 and geometric forms

Rodman received his BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 from the College of Creative Studies

College of Creative Studies

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, University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

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 in 1995 and his MFA

Master of Fine Arts

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 from Columbia University

Columbia University

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, New York in 2003.

Selected exhibitions

2007

The Performative Object, The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art

2006

The Navigator's Quarters Must Not Be Disturbed, Guild & Greyshkul, New York

2005

The Minded Swarm, LACE, Los Angeles

2004

drift:shift, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati

Kis Multiplied, Triple Candie, New York

2003

One Enemy vs. 25 Millions of Friends, Kunsthochschule Kassel

Kunsthochschule Kassel

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, Germany

2000

One and Many Suns, Caltech University, Pasadena

1997

Quartzose, Galleri Tommy Lund, Denmark

External links

• Halsey Rodman at Guild & Greyshkul
• Images, texts and biography from the Saatchi Gallery
• Jerry Saltz, States of Change, VilliageVoice.com