Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick (FR/US)
King of Weeds
Print, 2012
King of Weeds, courtesy of the artists.
Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick are a collaborative artist team who work primarily in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious histories set in the past or future. Kahn & Selesnick have participated in over 100 solo and group exhibitions and have works in over 20 collections, including the Boston Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, they have published 3 books with Aperture Press, Scotlandfuturebog, City of Salt, and Apollo Prophecies, and 2 books with Candela Books, One Hundred Views of the Drowning World and Dr. Falke’s Oraculum. They have lectured and led residencies world-wide including for Toni Morrison’s Atelier Program at Princeton University and at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, and have received commissions and grants from NASA and the Pollock Krasner Foundation among others.