Ken Price

(American, 1935–2012)

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Ken Price

Yellow, 2007

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Ken Price

Mountain Cult, 2008

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Biography

Timeline

1935
Born in Los Angeles, CA
1956
Received BFA at the University of Southern California
1957
Studied at Los Angeles County Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1959
Received MFA at NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
2012
Died in Arroyo Hondo, NM

Exhibitions

2015
Ken Price Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
The Serial Impulse and Gemini G.E.L., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
10 Sculptures, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Affecting Presence and the Pursuit of Delicious Experience, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery, The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (catalogue)
Testing Testing: Painting and Sculpture since 1980 from the Permanent Collection, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Beyond Craft: Decorative Arts from the Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection, Canton Museum of Art, OH
Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space, Karma, New York, NY
Nature, Sculpture, Abstraction, and Clay: 100 Years of American Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2014
Ken Price Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Ken Price, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA(solo exhibition)
Large Sculptures, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)(solo exhibition)
Specimen Rocks, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)(solo exhibition)
Inside/Outside, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA(solo exhibition)
Ken Price and Harvey Mudd: The Plain of Smokes, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ(solo exhibition)
Color Shift, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
2013
Ken Price Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works on Paper, 1962-2010, The Drawing Center, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Traveled to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY and The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM (catalogue)(solo exhibition)
Zoo, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
The Artist and the Poet, Art Institute of Chicago
72 Degrees: LA Art from the Collection, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Inaugural Exhibition, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
2012
Ken Price Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Bulgogi, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA(solo exhibition)
Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA(solo exhibition)
Night (1947 to 2015), The Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT(solo exhibition)
EST-3: Southern California in New York, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, NY
Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Highlights from The Harwood Museum of Art’s Collection of Contemporary Art, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
California Landscape into Abstraction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2011
Ken Price Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Ken Price, "Death Shrine I" From "Happy's Curios", The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, N. Mexico(solo exhibition)
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Venice in Venice, 54th Venice Biennale
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California, The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Clay's Tectonic Shift: John Mason, Ken Price and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1950-1980, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Common Ground: Ceramics in Southern California 1945-1975, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
2010
Ken Price Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Josef Albers/Ken Price, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Ken Price, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Ken Price, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Ken Price, Nyehaus, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Primary Atmospheres: Works from California, 1960 to 1970, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Houseguest: Frances Stark Selects from the Grunwald Collection, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Dichromatic, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
Josef Albers / Ken Price, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
2009
"Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968", Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
2008
"Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968", Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Clay Into Art: Selections from the Collection of Contemp. Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY
1998 - 1999
Franklin Parrasch Gallery New York, NY