Born in West Chester, Philadelphia. Lives and works in New York

Studies

2016 MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA

2011 - 2012 Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

(Guest student klasse Christopher Williams and klasse Peter Doig)

2009 BA (Film Studies and Visual Arts), Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

Selected Exhibitions

2020-2021

A Possible Horizon, Selections from the de la Cruz Collection, Miami, (2020-2021)

2020

Heard Through Bone (solo), Central Fine, Miami Beach

2019

Error: Erred (solo), David Lewis, New York

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2018

Tremoring Cup, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria

Like crazy nature (solo), Central Fine, Miami Beach USA

Kitnick & Thurman, Front International: Digital Infinity, Cleveland Triennial, USA 2017

Hadi Fallahpisheh, Dani Leder, Kyle Thurman, Off Vendome, New York, USA 2016

Kitnick & Thurman, Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, USA

A Lonely Butcher (solo), Off Vendome, New York, USA

A Change of Heart, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA organized by Chris Sharp

Finding Ling-Ling’s Head, Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, Belgium

2015

Towards A Technical Being (solo), Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

to drink with teeth (solo), Kostyal, London, England

Heat Theater (solo), Off Vendome, Dusseldorf, Germany

The Gentle Way (Judo), Clifton Benevento, New York, USA organized by Zak Kitnick

Seven Artists in Two Rooms, OFFSITE, New York, USA

2014

Three Cups Fragrance, Bodega, New York, USA

On Kindness: Jacob Kassay & Kyle Thurman, MOCA Tucson, Tuscon, USA Trust (Vita Vel Regula), Fluxia Gallery, Milan, Italy organized by Michele D’Aurizio

Day-For-Night / Nuit Americaine, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

Mineral Spirit, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA

Idiosynchromism, Dickinson Gallery, New York, USA

That Singing Voice, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain organized by Matt Moravec

Stay in Love, Lisa Cooley & Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA organized by Chris Sharp

2013

Banana Tourist (solo), Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

Rock Art & the X-Ray Style, Brighton Beach, USA organized by Ryan Foerster

Kyle Thurman (solo), Room East, New York, USA

Space Whole Karaoke, Middlemarch, Brussels, Belgium

Kyle Thurman, Israel Lund, John Baptiste Bernadet, Josh Smith, TORRI, Paris, France

Dead Zone, Nudashank, Baltimore, USA

2012

(305) 696-0800 (solo), Shoot the Lobster, Miami, USA

Red, Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium

Henry Codax, Virginia Overton, Kyle Thurman, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium

Group Show, West Street Gallery, New York, USA

Braman, Buren, Falls, Heilmann, Louis, Thurman, Eleven Rivington, New York, USA

Lackawanna (Sebastian Black and Kyle Thurman), C L E A R I N G, Brussels, Belgium

2011

Royal Rumble at Waffle House, C L E A R I N G and The Journal, Miami, USA

Time and Material, M and B Art, Los Angeles, USA organized by Matt Moravec

Harvest Moon, Brighton Beach, USA organized by Ryan Foerster

Ryan Foerster and Kyle Thurman, West Street Gallery, New York, USA 2010

Press Release, Martos Gallery, New York, USA

2009

Apartment Show, Printed Matter, New York, USA

Young Artists, The Mercantile Fiction Library, New York, USA

Public Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Selected Press

CONDO New York, Art Observed, 26 July 2017

Aaron Bogart, Kyle Thurman Off Vendome, Flash Art, 311 November - December 2016

Zak Kitnick, Arms or Legs or Butts or Guts, ARTNEWS, 30 September 2016 Clayton Press, A Lonely Butcher, Arteviste, October 2016

Roberta Smith, 15 Group Shows Not to Miss, The New York Times, 29 January 2015 Abraham Adams, Three Cups Fragrance, Artforum (Critics' Picks), 16 December 2014 Karen Rosenberg, Stay In Love, The New York Times, 17 January 2014

Will Heinrich, Stay in Love, Observer, 15 January 2014

Claude Lorent, Avec des fleurs pigmentées, La Libre Belgique, 17 January 2014

Visiting Artist & related experience

Summer 2016 - Program Assistant - Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard MFA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

Spring 2016 semester - Visiting Artist - Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Fall 2015 semester - Visiting Artist - School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

Writing & exhibition organization

The Longest Bridge, Off Vendome, New York, 2015