Kenneth Tam works across video, sculpture, performance, movement, installation and photography, and makes work about the performance of masculinity, spaces of physical intimacy and the transformative potential of private ritual. Tam received his BFA from the Cooper Union and his MFA in 2010.
He has had solo exhibitions at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), CA; Ballroom Marfa, TX; Queens Museum, NY; MoCA Tucson, AZ; Tufts University Art Gallery, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; MIT List Center for Visual Arts, MA; the Visual Arts Center at UT Austin, TX; Commonwealth and Council, CA; and ICA LA, CA. Tam has participated in group shows at the Hammer Museum, CA; SculptureCenter, NY and at The Shed, NY.
Tam is currently an Assistant Professor at Rice University and faculty at The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. He was previously a Lecturer at Princeton University, Guest Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, and was a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University.
He is represented by Commonwealth & Council in Los Angeles.