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Marshall James Kavanaugh
is a dream laborer of words and various art forms used to create poetic dream spaces for his readership to explore. His works contain both the surreal and the absurd in a culture driven attempt at documenting the creative activism of his generation. Originally from Philadelphia, for several years he has been on the road traveling coast to coast performing spoken word. Most recently in 2017-2019, he co-organized a series of readings across the country with a variety of performers under the moniker, Poets For Peace. He has published two collections of short stories, several small chapbooks of travel fiction, and a collection of haikus with the small press, A Freedom Books.

photo by Nikki Volpicelli, for JUMP Magazine

He has performed and had his work exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Currents New Media Festival, MoMA PS1, The Paseo Taos Arts Festival, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Space 1026, and Vox Populi, as well as other cultural spaces around the country. He is the resident writer of The Dream Oven art salon since 2011 and was an active member of the Philadelphia art collective/gallery, Little Berlin, from 2012-2014. In 2017, he began curating at the Taos, NM collective and new media gallery, Parse Seco.

He currently divides his time between travel and writing a novel about the first trip he took out to the West Coast. When he is not on the road he usually can be found in the Philadelphia area with his two cats building large TV installations.

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b. 1987

SOLO & SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
"from the BEATS to the BEATNIK" The Beatnik Lounge, Joshua Tree CA
"Grass Colors – Paintings + Bikes" Tulla-Realschule, Mannheim, Germany

2020
"Uncharted Waters" Havertown Community Action Network, Philadelphia PA
"Street Poets: Live Typewritten Art" 1455 Summer Literary Festival, Winchester VA
"The Poetry of Strangers – Typewriter Parade" Book Soup, Los Angeles CA

2018
"ManifeSTATION Station: Give The River A Voice" The PASEO, Taos NM
"Libraries, curated by Little Berlin" The Front, New Orleans LA
"Dreams By Request" Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe NM
"A Poem Is Where The Heart Is..." curator, Parse Seco, Taos NM

2017
"Poets and Unicorns" The PASEO, Taos NM

2016
"Natural Tendencies" Anetra Studio, Denver CO
"March Forth" Martha Street Mummers Museum, Philadelphia PA
"Peripheral Surveillance" #TheWrong New Media Festival, University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA

2014
"The Dream Oven: A Retrospective" curator, Little Berlin, Philadelphia PA
"Between The Act & Motion"   Artscape, Baltimore MD
"Plato's Porno Cave - The Trial" curator, Little Berlin, Philadelphia PA
"Year of the Gewgaw" Collage Fest, Philadelphia PA
"Little White Cubes"   curator, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington DE

2013
"Fort Thunder Attacks...again!" Space 1026, Philadelphia PA
"All Of CITYWIDE" Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
"Limits and Demonstrations: A Lula Chamberlain Retrospective" curator, Little Berlin, Philadelphia PA
"Plato's Porno Cave - The New World" curator, Little Berlin, Philadelphia PA

2012
"HUNG"   Little Berlin, Philadelphia PA
"Bruce High Quality Foundation presents Bruceforma 2012" MoMA PS1, Queens NY
"Plato's Porno Cave - A Dream Symposium" curator, Little Berlin, Philadelphia PA

2011
"Carnivale de Arcanum" curator, VWVOFFKA, Philadelphia PA

2010
"Soundoffka vol. 2" VWVOFFKA, Philadelphia PA
"Small Objects" curator, VWVOFFKA, Philadelphia PA
"Concrete, etc"   curator, VWVOFFKA, Philadelphia PA
"Soundoffka vol. 1" VWVOFFKA, Philadelphia PA

RESIDENCIES

Parse Seco, Taos NM; March - May 2018
http://www.parseseco.com/artist-residency--show-submissions.html

368 Ponce, Atlanta GA; April - May 2017
http://www.368ponce.com/

The Holy Underground, Baltimore MD; February 2016
http://theholyunderground.tumblr.com/