ABOUT TREVOR KING

Trevor King lives and works in New York City.

Ranging from large scale installations, to highly intimate objects and videos, his artworks occur within open-ended projects that ruminate on the endurance of the human spirit in the face of time and mortality.

His approach to creating work is based in the process of observation. His practice asks, how can the tradition of making sculpture be informed by the strategies and/or intentions of documentarians? How can the making of an object act as a device for witnessing, recording, and remembrance? For him the making of an object is a medium used to articulate the poetic relationships between people, place, history, and the momentary.

Trevor grew up in Butler, Pennsylvania, a rust-belt mill town that experienced enormous job loss after the war-time boom. He attributes the post-industrial landscape to his interest in material culture and the resonance of objects. The mundane, the low-brow, and the commonplace inform his imagery, resonant with stillness and vacancy - the poetry of the redundant.

King received a BFA from Slippery Rock University. During this time, he also studied in the Sculpture and Intermedia departments at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. Trevor received an MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in 2015.

He has been an artist-in-residence at Touchstone Center for Crafts, Ox-Bow School of Art, Haystack Mountain School, Sculpture Space NYC, Greenwich House Pottery, MASS MoCA, and The Hambidge Center. King has been a Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Articles on his work have been published in CFile, Floræ, Maake Magazine, and Sculpture.

Exhibitions of King’s work include Melting Point, a group exhibition at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Bronx Calling, a group exhibition at the Bronx Museum, and solo exhibitions including Notions at Sculpture Space NYC, and STILLNESSNESS at the Emmanuel Barbault Gallery.