Steven Kenny
BORN | |
| 1962 Peekskill, NY
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EDUCATION | |
| 1980-84 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA
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INDEPENDENT STUDY | |
| 1983-84 European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, | Rome, Italy
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SOLO SHOWS | |
| 2009 | Cryptohemtology, Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA |
| 2008 | The Prison Within, Six Pack Gallery, Washington, VA
2007 Incubating Avatars, Six Pack Gallery, Washington, VA 2006 Flying Lessons, Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA Steven Kenny, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA New Paintings, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2004 Anthropics, Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA |
| 2003 | Noble Savages, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Dust to Dust, Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV 2002 Lights and Darks, Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA New Work, van de Griff/Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2001 Recent Paintings, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC Paintings, Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA Paintings, Gallery K, Washington, D.C 1999 Arcadia No. 32, Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA 1998 Commissions of Fantasy, Glassworks Gallery, Sperryville, VA Portraits and Effigies, Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA |
| 1997 | Works in Oil, Glassworks Gallery, Sperryville, VA
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SELECTED GROUP SHOWS | |
| 2009 | Machine in the Garden, Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Eastern Exhibition, Fantasmus Galleri, Saeby, Denmark Dante’s Divine Comedy, Fantasmus Galleri, Saeby, Denmark |
| 2008 | World Without Us, Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Dreamscape 3, Loods 6, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 15th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Magiske Realisme, Kunst Pavillon, Aalborg, Denmark The Lucent Dossier Project, Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA |
| 2007 | Magical Realism, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
14th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Les Metamorphoses des Faunes, Galerie Princesse de Kiev, Nice, France Year of the Chimear 3.1 - Treasures of the Exotic Far West, Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Year of the Chimear 3.0 – Surrealists and Surrealist Sympathizers, Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Made in the Shade, Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA Venus and the Female Intuition, Denmark, Holland, and France Dreamland: American Explorations in Surrealism, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2006 Gallery Artists, Galerie Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund: The First Three Years, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington DC Inaugural Exhibition, Galerie Brusen, Sæby/Copenhagen, Denmark Gallery Artists Portfolio, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 13th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Contemporary Imaginings: The Howard A. and Judy Tullman Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama |
| 2005 | A Measure of Beauty, Packing Shed Gallery, Washington, VA
Flora and Fauna, Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth, VA Gallery Artists Portfolio, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 12th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM H. C. Anderson Anniversary Exhibition, Voergaard Castle, Denmark Spectrum Exhibition, Society of Illustrators, NYC |
| 2004 | Birds & B(ees), Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
11th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM The Director Selects, Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA Winter Guests, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Figurative Painting, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD 2003 10th Annual Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 7th Annual Georgetown International Art Exhibition, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC Artists Speak, Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA 2002 9th Annual Realism Invitational, van de Griff/Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Small is Beautiful, Gallery K, Washington, DC Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Grant Recipients, Salmagundi Club, NYC Summer Show, Gallery K, Washington, DC 2001 Small is Beautiful, Gallery K, Washington, DC 8th Annual Realism Invitational, van de Griff/Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Summer Show, Gallery K, Washington, DC 2000 Small is Beautiful, Gallery K, Washington, DC Dreamscapes/Landscapes, Gallery 214, Montclair, NJ Faces On Places, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO |
| Summer Show, Gallery K, Washington, DC
4th Annual Georgetown International Art Exhibition, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC 1999 As Big As It Gets, Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA 1998 Sense of Place, Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA 1997-98 RISD on the Road Travelling Exhibition, Providence, Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia 1989 Thirteenth Annual Small Works Show, Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York City 1988 Twelfth Annual Small Works Show, Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York City 1987 The Small Works Show, BACA Downtown Gallery, Brooklyn, NY AWARDS & HONORS 2004 Grant, Franz and Virginia Bader Fund, Washington, DC Panelist, Painting Fellowships, Virginia Commission for the Arts 2003 Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Honorable Mention, 7th Annual Georgetown International Art Exhibition, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC 2002 Grand Prize, Visual Arts Grant Competition, Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation, NYC 2001 Individual Artist Fellowship, Virginia Commission for the Arts 2000 Best In Show, 4th Annual Georgetown International Art Exhibition, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC Nancy Freund Prize, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO | |
PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS | |
| 2008 | Gothic Art Now, p. 25 (illus). Collins Design.
Spectrum 15, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, p. 240 (illus). Underwood Books. Imaginaire I, pp. 78, 79 (illus). FANTASMUS – Artbooks. Dreamscapes – Contemporary Imagionary Realism, pp. 76, 77 (illus). Imaginary Editions. Boulevard, Vol. 24, No. 1. Cover. Boulevard, Vol. 22, No. 2 and 3. Cover. |
| 2007 | Philadelphia Enquirer. “A mix of fantasy, reality, vision.” September 9, 2007. Neighbors Section.
Boulevard, Vol. 23, No. 1. Cover. Dreamscape, The Best of Imaginary Realism, Vol. 2. SALBRU publish, pp. 90, 91 (illus). Spectrum 14, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. Underwood Books. P. 240 (illus.) O'Sullivan, Michael. "The Quiet Pull of the 'Bader Fund' Show." Washington Post Weekend, January 12, p. 21 (illus). Venus and the Female Intuition. Exhibition catalog. SALBRU publish. Pp. 44, 45 (illus.) Metamorphosis – 50 Contemporary Surreal, Fantastic and Visionary Artists. Beinart Publishing. Unpaginated, 2 pages with illsutrations. |
| Caponi, Nancy. "Dreamland: American Explorations in Surrealism." Exhibition
Catalogue (Sullivan Goss Gallery). 2006 Dreamscape, The Best of Imaginary Realism. SALBRU publish, pp. 74, 75 (illus). Peterson, Maggie Wolff. “Transcendence.” Élan Magazine, October, cover, pp. 16, 50 – 53 (illus). Schmidt, F. & E. “New Art Mecca.” Home & Design, Fall issue, pg. 138 (illus). Spectrum 13, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (illus). “Realism Invitational,” American Art Quarterly, Winter 2006, pp. 51, 52 (illus). Cullum, Jerry. “A world where myths, Mother nature intersect.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sept. 10, illus. Feaster, Felicia. “Birds of a feather.” Creative Loafing.com, August 30. 2005 Kenny, Steven. Soul Flight. Monograph. Charles, Larry. “The State of the Realist Nation.” American Art Collector, October, pp. 144, 146 (illus). Spectrum 12, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, pp. 170, 202 (illus). Boulevard, Vol. 20, Nos. 2 & 3. Cover. Boulevard, Vol. 21, No. 1. Cover. Deep Magic E-zine, artist profile, p. 19 (illus). H.C. Andersen+, Exhibition Catalog, pp. 36, 37 (illus). Ruffner, René. "'Measure of Beauty' showcases at The Packing Shed." Rappahannock News, Nov. 24, p. B1, B2. Inguine.net E-zine, June. Interview with color reproductions. | |
| 2004 | Spectrum 11, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, pp. 171, 198 (illus).
New American Paintings, Volume #51. Boulevard, Vol. 20, No.1. Cover and pp. 121-124 (illus). Santa Fe Reporter, April 21. Cover and page 12. Rousseau, Claudia. “Painting the ominous: Masks, nudes, fairies, and more.” The Bethesda Gazette, February 25. Collins, Tom. “Artists Keep Realism Interesting.” Albuquerque Journal, March 5. 2003 Armitage, Diane. “Steven Kenny: Noble Savages.” THE Magazine, June (illus). Randall, Teri Thomson. “Creature Discomforts.” Santa Fe New Mexican, May 9, pp. 28, 29 (illus). Spectrum 10, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, p. 148 (illus). Widner, Jonanna. “Savage Surrealism.” Santa Fe Reporter, May 7, p. 23 (illus). 2002 Spectrum 9, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, pp. 146, 147 (illus). |
| Sherwood, Barbara. “ ‘Lights and Darks’ – works of Steven Kenny displayed.” Rappahannock News, September 26.
2001 Spectrum 8, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, pp. 146, 147 (illus). | |
| 1999 | Bird, Diana. “Steve Kenny's Work On Display.” Rappahannock News, Wednesday,
November 17, p. B3. Art Calendar Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 6, April, Cover. |
| 1998 | Martin, Mary Beth. “Through Steve Kenny's Eyes.” Rappahannock News,
Wednesday, January 28, pp. A1and B1. Ruffner, René. “Kenny's Show Worth the Trip to Middle Street.” Rappahannock News, Wednesday, February 11, p. B1. |
| 1997 | Mahan, Cindy. “Glassworks Gallery Features Work of New Artist.” Rappahannock
News, Wednesday, June 11, p. B1. Shumate, John. “Between Dreams and Reality.” Culpeper Star-Exponent, Sunday, June 8, p. 1C (illus). |
LECTURES | |
| 2009 | Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA |
| 2007 | Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Rappahannock Association for Arts and the Community, Washington, VA |
| 2003 | Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV
Middle Street Gallery, Washington, VA |