MK Guth

Artist Bio
View works. MK Guth, Tributary, 2024
Tributary, 2024
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MK Guth is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work frequently has an element of audience participation at its heart. She appropriates archetypal characters and stories from fables and mythology in order to examine contemporary human issues and concerns. Guth has received a Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award administered through Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA) and an Award of Merit from the Bellevue Art Museum (Bellevue, WA). MK Guth was featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), and has exhibited with numerous other galleries and institutions, including Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati, OH), Boise Art Museum (Boise, ID), A Gentil Carioca (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Melbourne International Arts Festival (Melbourne, Australia), Nottdance Festival (Nottingham, UK), Swiss Institute (New York, NY), White Columns (New York, NY), Artists Space (New York, NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA) and most recently had a solo exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum (Salem, OR).
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  • MK Guth, Dinner for Remembering, 2016
    Dinner for Remembering, 2016
    1 artist book, 3 selected books (Mythology and Meatballs by Daniel Spoerri, 'I Remember' by Joe Brainard and 'I Remember' by Georges Perec), 1 poplar shelf
    shelf: 10 x 23"
  • MK Guth, Gift Shop, 2011
    Gift Shop, 2011
    digital c-print
    32 x 48" image
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  • MK Guth, Tributary, 2024
    Tributary, 2024
    braided fabric tapestry
    79 x 48"
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  • MK Guth, Falling, 2024
    Falling, 2024
    ink on charmeuse fabric
    78 x 58"
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  • MK Guth, Cosmos, 2024
    Cosmos, 2024
    braided fabric tapestry
    81 x 56"
  • MK Guth, Our Rapunzel Installation view, Miller Fine Arts Center at Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon, 2006
    Our Rapunzel Installation view, Miller Fine Arts Center at Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon, 2006
    Braided fabric and artificial hair
    700 feet long, configuration variable
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  • MK Guth, Bar, 2011
    Bar, 2011
    digital c-print
    24 x 36" image
    25 x 37" framed
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  • MK Guth, Dinner for Getting Over It or At Least Through It, 2019
    Dinner for Getting Over It or At Least Through It, 2019
    perfect bound book, ceramic bowl, bound burn pages, matches and wood shelf
    interactive, wood shelf: 10 x 16"
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  • MK Guth, Dinner to Tell a Joke, 2019
    Dinner to Tell a Joke, 2019
    perfect bound book, 6 porcelain cups with holding chips and wood shelf
    interactive, wood shelf: 10 x 27"
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