Greg Kessler

Greg Kessler (born October 24, 1966) is an American artist.

Kessler attended the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C. in 1983 and received a full fellowship to the Yale University School of Art Ellen Bartell Stoekel Program in Art in Norfolk, Connecticut, in 1987. He earned his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts in 1988 and his MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1990.

His early work depicted androgynous urban characters influenced by Camille Paglia's book Sexual Personae, and was displayed at the George Billis Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan, and the Cy Katzen Gallery in Washington DC.

In 2002, Kessler was an artist in residence at Hotel Pupik in Austria. He followed that with solo shows at the Glorious Food loft in New York and the Adair Margo Gallery in Texas.

His recent work recalls late Picasso, early Jackson Pollock and de Kooning. Kessler pulls images out of the process of painting and combines drawing, collage and color field painting in combination of abstract and figurative styles. Kessler's work was most recently displayed at the LeRoy Neiman Center at Columbia University.

In 2009, Kessler had a one-person show at Westbeth Gallery in New York City. The same year, Kessler also curated a show at Gallery Korea in New York, titled Contemporary Mythology. In 2011 he curated works of 13 artists for his group show, called Urban Mythos.He had a solo show in Palm Beach in January 2012. His show and approach to painting were featured in the Spring 2012 issue of South Florida Opulence magazine.

Award-winning writer and photographer John D. Adams interviewed Kessler for South Florida Opulence Magazine and wrote of his art: "...While Kessler's images are often figurative, his use of color, application and process of literally cutting and pasting, is experimental and brings his signature style to fruition...Here and there you will catch nods to some of Kessler's favorite artists: Manet, Matisse, later Picasso, Pollock, later Titian, and contemporary George Condo. But Kessler simply references these artists, the final work is uniquely his own."

In 2013, Kessler's drawings were part of Beijing's Inside Out Museum's opening exhibit.

Kessler was a visiting lecturer at the New York Academy of Art, New York University, Massachusetts College of Art, and Concordia University. He also taught at the City University of New York. As of 2017, he is an adjunct professor of printmaking at Columbia University.