Kyle Alden Martens

Kyle Alden Martens is a Montréal-based artist working in sculpture, installation, performance, and video. They hold a BFA in intermedia from NSCAD University (2015), and an MFA in sculpture from Concordia University (2022), where they were supported by the Dale and Nick Tedeschi Arts Fellowship, the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et culture. Martens has exhibited with Bradley Ertaskiran, Pangée, Circa Art Actuel, and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in Montréal, AXENÉO7 in Gatineau, and the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax. Their exhibition PORTABLE CLOSETS has been shown nationally at Stride Gallery, Centre CLARK, and Eastern Edge Gallery. Martens received the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art hosted at Concordia University. They are represented by Patel Brown, where they recently had a solo exhibition, Spun Through the Heel, that consisted of sculptural suit jackets, ropes, gloves, and shoes.