Daniel Kersh

Works in Brooklyn, NY

BIO

Daniel Kersh is an artist exploring intersections in art, performance, science, and technology. He brings his background in installation art, lighting design, and dance to create large scale, immersive exhibitions and performances. Kersh's work embodies expressions of a universal rhythm marked by impermanence, interconnectedness, and nonduality. Fundamental to all of his work is an invitation to a meditative space and an opportunity for moments of transcendence.

Kersh trained his eye to the nuances of light, dance, and performance under the mentorship of Robert Wierzel and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. He furthered his studies of light and its effects on bodies, built environments, and the natural world under Al Crawford at Arc3Design. Kersh’s strong passion for light, art, and movement grew into a breadth of work in lighting design, installations, and performance. With the mission of blending these mediums he formed Studio Daniel Kersh in 2020, a collaborative studio for experimental practice and research in contemporary art and performance.

You’ll like Daniel if: you always look at the bright side of things

"My work describes a transformation of suffering with the use of light as a material. It indulges in the ethereal while being grounded in perception. The natural beauty of the subtlety of light is something to be reveled in. It is refreshing, calming, and brings peace and joy. We perceive reality through light, when we see, we see with the entirety of our past experience. If light is manipulated, the nature of that reality can be questioned and we are brought closer to the central truths of our perceptions."