Kyle Alden Martens (he/him, they/them)

Kyle Alden Martens is an artist, based in Montreal, who works in sculpture, installation, performance and video. They graduated from the NSCAD University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Intermedia and is a 2022 Master of Fine Arts graduate in sculpture from Concordia University 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 Montreal, AXENÉO7 in Gatineau, as well as 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 is a current laureate of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art at Concordia University. They are represented by the Patel Brown gallery in Toronto, where they recently exhibited a solo show of sculptural suit jackets, ropes, gloves and shoes titled Spun Through the Heel. Website