Marlon Kroll (b. 1992 in Hamburg, Germany) is a Montreal-based artist interested in perception, infinity, and the supernatural. The child of a psychic and a musician, his work articulates questions around embodiment, the nature of reality, and the construction of truth. Selected recent solo and institutional exhibitions include Fireflies, Eli Kerr, Montreal; Revelation, Fondrie Darling, Montreal, 2023; Receiver, Acapella, Naples, Italy; Nesting, Foundation Phi, Montreal, 2022; A Chronique Fear, Marvin Gardens, Queens, New York, 2021; Rifts, hovels, a sighing tide, Afternoon Projects, Vancouver, 2021; La Machine Qui Enseignait Des Airs Aux Oiseaux, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montreal, 2020; Red Sky at Morning, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York, 2019; Sunrise It Crystallize, Parisian Laundry/Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, 2019. Kroll was awarded the William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists in 2020. His work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Montreal, CDPQ Collection, Fidelity Investments Collection, and Foundation Giverny Collection.

EDUCATION

2018
BFA, Ceramics, Concordia University, Montreal, QC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Lullaby, Management, New York

2023
Fireflies, Parc Offsite, Eli Kerr, Montreal, QC
Revelation, Fondrie Darling, Montreal, QC

2022
Trees that Worry, Projet Pangee, Montreal, QC
Nesting, PHI Foundation, Montreal, QC
Receiver, Acapella, Naples, Italy

2021
Rifts, hovels, a sighing tide, Afternoon Projects, Vancouver, BC
A Chronique Fear, Marvin Gardens, Queens, New York

2019
Thirsty Things, Clint Roenisch, Toronto, ON
Sunrise It Crystallize, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, QC

2017
To Everything A Season, To Everything A Stain, Soon.TW, Montreal, QC


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
ear to the ceiling, eye to the sky, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, ON
Map of Dusk, Afternoon Projects, Shanghai, China

2022
The Last Day of Disco, Management, New York

2021
The Kroll Show, w/ Bryce Kroll, Gern, New York

2020
Flat File, Camayuhs, Atlanta, GA
La Machine Qui Enseignant Des Airs Aux Oiseaux, Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal
At the Center Of My Ironic Faith, Cassandra Cassandra, Toronto, ON
Quarante, Blouin Division, Montreal, QC

2019
Objects of Desire, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC
Red Sky at Morning, Interstate Projects, New York

2018
No Sun No Stars, No Anchor No Guide, Queenspecific, Toronto, ON
Whose line is it anyway?, w/ Joy Walker, 8eleven, Toronto, ON
Hopping The Twig, Calaboose, Montreal, QC
A Place in The Country, Clint Roenisch, Toronto, ON
Summer, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, QC
Studio, central park gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings, Clint Roenisch, Toronto, ON

2017
Waste Cube, Main Street, Toronto, ON
Vacancy, Bunker, Toronto, ON
VPN to IRL, XPACE Cultural Center, Toronto, ON
USE, FOFA Gallery, Montreal, QC

2016
Object Lesson, SKOL, Montreal, QC
Expand, Gallerie VAV, Montreal, QC
Self & Others, Articule artist run center, Montreal, QC


GRANTS/PRIZES

2021
Residency sponsorship by George Drolet, Darling Foundry, Montreal QC.

2020
Research and Creation Grant, New Career, Canada Council for the Arts
William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists, Hnatyshyn Foundation

2019
Research and Creation Grant, New Career, Canada Council for the Arts

2018-20
Residency sponsorship by Ann Birks, Darling Foundry, Montreal QC.

2016
Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster Seed Grant, Milieux Institute of Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University, with Sophia Borowska.
Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Award, presented by the Office of the Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies.

2015
Jack Lehman Ceramic Prize, Concordia University, Montreal.

Material, CDMX

Management is pleased to present a duo booth with works by Marlon Kroll and Ernesto Renda at Material in CDMX, February 8 — 11

February 8, 2024
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