Kendell Geers

Since the 1990s, his work has been firmly anchored in activism. Geers uses emblematic figures from art history, religious icons, and pornographic images to explore social limits.

He is known for his vocabulary of barbed wire, barrels, truncheons, broken glass, and police tape—elements that convey a feeling of urgency.

His work never fails to reflect strong desires and violent impulses.

His work also inverts order and morality, whether in the form of belief systems or social and political ideologies, while also shining a light on the mechanisms of the human psyche.

He is one of the most frequently exhibited artists of his generation. His works are part of sixty permanent museum collections and since 1988 he has taken part in more than four hundred exhibitions all around the world.

Artist Biography

Featured Works

Kendell Geers Lekanoman XV
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Kendell Geers Flesh of the Spirit 292
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Kendell Geers Flesh of the Spirit 92
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Kendell Geers Flesh of the Spirit 4163
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Kendell Geers Flesh of the Spirit 2154
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Kendell Geers Flesh of the Spirit 19
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Kendell Geers Flesh of the Spirit 8667
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Kendell Geers Flesh of the Spirit 18
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Kendell Geers Leviathan Stool
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Kendell Geers Age of the Iron XXXXV
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Kendell Geers White Dahlia VI
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Kendell Geers Age of Iron XXXXVII
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Exhibitions

Radical Making Pursuit of Form

20 October 202527 March 2026Paris

Arcadia Robert Stadler × Yinka Shonibare CBE

24 July 202531 January 2026Los Angeles

Design Miami. 2025 Nacho Carbonell | Ingrid Donat

2 December7 December 2025Miami

Design Miami. 2024 Yinka Shonibare CBE × Vincenzo De Cotiis

3 December8 December 2024

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