KEN KEWLEY
Born April 20, 1953
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS (a selection)
2016
New Works. Gross McCleaf Gallery. Philadelphia, PA
Ken Kewley - A Survey: Painting, Drawings, Collages. Kentucky School of Art and Design, Louisville, KY
2015
Twenty-Five Works. Paintings, Drawing, Collages. Central Pennsylvania Community College, Lebanon, PA
Recent Collages. Brick + Mortar. Easton, PA
Ken Kewley: New Studio Paintings. Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ken Kewley: Twenty New Things. Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2014
Ken Kewley: Painting, Drawings, Collages. University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2013
Washington Studio School, Washington, DC
Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas
Recent Landscapes, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI
2012
Paintings and Collages, Present and Past, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv
Recent Dressing Room Paintings and Drawings, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI
Twenty One Works 1997 - 2012 - Paintings and Collages. Third Floor, Outside CE Office, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Ken Kewley: Paintings and Collages, Kunst 11 Zurich
Ken Kewley: Paintings and Collages 2000-2010, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 very small and very recent paintings, LaDuca Gallery, Easton, PA Ken Kewley, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, AR
2008 Ken Kewley: Very New Landscapes of Easton, PA, Jerusalem Studio School, Israel
2007
Ken Kewley: Collage & Painting, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
2005
Collages, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
1999
Barton-Ryan Gallery, Boston, MA
One Hundred Figure Paintings, Ansonia Window Show, New York
1997
Scott White Gallery (a.k.a. SOMA Gallery), La Jolla
1995
Hackett/Freedman Gallery (a.k.a. Contemporary Realist Gallery), San Francisco, CA
Scott White Gallery (a.k.a. SOMA Gallery), Project Room, San Diego, CA
1976 State Street Paintings, Collage of Creative Studies, University of California at
Santa Barbara, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Presence: Encounters with the Figure. Five Points Gallery. Torrington, CT
REFIGURED Glass. Paper. Thread. Jolie Stahl, Ken Kewley, Rosemarie Beck. Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY.
2017
Ken Kewley & Clara Kewley. People & Places. Connexion Gallery, Easton, PA
Drawing Invitational curated by Mark Andres. Gallery 114, Portland, Oregon
Art at Kings Oaks. Kings Oaks Farm, Newtown, PA
Ying Li - Ken Kewley. Selected Works. Truro Center for the Arts, Truro , MA
Clara Kewley & Ken Kewley. Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI
Ken Kewley + Michael Kondel. Brick + Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA
2016
Figures: Ken Kewley, Brian Kreydatus, Sterling Shaw, Mickayel Thurin. Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
50 Shades of Red. Herter Gallery. University of Massachusetts Amherst. MA
2015
Shape Play. Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Bettina Nelson & Ken Kewley. Washington Studio School, Washington, DC
Lilies, Figs and Follies: Contemporary Still Life. Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
A Fine Arrangement: The Art of Still Life. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Boom. Easton, PA
Black and White, Photographs and Drawings: Bill Schwab and Ken Kewley, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI (June 2014).
Women in Interiors, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Gorgeous Nothings, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI
Paper Works, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
Color: Imagined and Observed, Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary
2013
Certain Densities, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, MO
Edge vs. Line, Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College
Stuart Shils & Ken Kewley, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
Small is Big, Five Painters, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, Katonah Museum of Art, NY, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, PA
2012
Rothschild Fine Arts, Kunst12Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Social Friends, Thomas Dean Fine Arts, Atlanta, Georgia
Bound/Unbound, Fairleigh Dickinson, New Jersey
Five New Dressing Room Paintings, SHFAP, New York, NY
meta-decorative, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, Scope - New York
The Annual 2012, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Search the Surface (four abstract artist), Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2011 Pennsylvania Seen – Southeast Landscapes, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Shipped and Shaped, Andrews Gallery, The College of William and Mary, VA
Flirting with Abstraction, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Collage Perspectives (5 collage artists), List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA
2008 Ken Kewley / John Goodrich, Armstrong – Hipkins Center for the Arts, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
Inaugural Exhibition, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Culture of Collage, Zoller Gallery, Penn State, State College, PA
Genova Meets Easton, Genova, Italy
2007
Anniversary: Ten Years of Gallery Art and Artists, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
Three Artist: Raphael Soyer, William Gothhard, Ken Kewley, eDavid gallery, Bethlehem, PA In Context collage + abstraction, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
2006
Just Desserts – Ken Kewley/Lori Larusso, Brickwalk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
After Images: Ken Kewley/Isadore LaDuca, Connexion Gallery, Easton, PA
2004-05
Tabletop Arenas, Zeuxis: An Association of Still Life Painters, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; traveled to: Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York; The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA; Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2004
Intimate Purlieus: The Diminutive Landscape and Contemporary Art, The Palmer Museum, University Park, PA
2002
Five in Collage, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
2001
Power of the Seen: Eleven Painters Work From Life, The Painting Center, New York
2000
Hackett-Freedman Gallery Artists, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
1998
National Academy of Design, New York, 173rd Annual Exhibition
1997
Landscapes, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, Still Lifes, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996
The History of Yosemite Park in Paintings, Yosemite Museum, CA
1994
New Bay Area Painting, Hackett/Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
Summer/Landscapes, The Gallery, Three Zero, New York
People II, The Gallery, Three Zero, New York
1992
New Generation, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
National Academy of Design, New York, 167th Annual Exhibition
Bibliography
Kennedy, Tim. Ken Kewley - Life Composed. The Artist’s Magazine. December 2017.
Newhall, Edith. Painterly Collages. The Inquirer, Philadelphia, November 27, 2011
Meier, Philipp. Review of Kunst 11 Zurich, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, November 17, 2011
Burg, Avital. Interview, Haaretz (Tel Aviv), January 16, 2011.
Grossman, Ruth. Review, Haaretz (Tel Aviv), March 1, 2011
Thornton, John R. Collage Perspective Goldfine, Gil. “The Challenge of Realism,” The Jerusalem Press: July 31, 2008 Mullarkey, Maureen. “On Board,” The New York Sun, July 19, 2007
Mullarkey, Maureen. “Abstract Jewels of Modernism,” The New York Sun, June 7, 2007
Lima, Jackie. Collage and Painting, (essay on the Lafayette exhibition, published on my website) 2007 Gehman, Geoff. The Morning Call (review) February 2007
Gelber, Eric. ArtCritical.com (review), October 2005
Naves, Mario. “Renoir Redeemed,” The New York Observer, October 17, 2005
Smith, Roberta. The New York Times (review), April 8, 2005
Mullarkey, Maureen. The New York Sun, September 15, 2005
Haggerty, Gerard. Artnews (review), December, 2005
Mullarkey, Maureen. “Gallery Going,” The New York Sun, April 29, 2004
Naves, Mario. “Still-life Association Zeuxis Communes With the Inanimate,” The New York Observer, July 19, 2004
Collischan, Judith. ARTnews (review), May, 2002
Siegel, Lee. “Five in Collage” (catalog essay) 2002
TEACHING AND LECTURING
William & Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia
Winslow Art Center, Bainbridge Island, WA
Northeast Artist Workshops, Gloucester, ME
SCAPE, Sounthern California Artists for the Protection of the Envirnoment, Santa Barbara, CA
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, AR
Connexion Gallery, Easton, PA
Concord Arts, Concord, MA
Warehouse 521, Nashville, TN
Flint Museum of Art, Flint, MI
Portland Community College at Rock Creek, Portland, OR
Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD
Kentucky School of Art and Design. Louisville, PA
Art Workshops Boulder, Boulder, CO
Stoughton School District K-12 Art Teachers, Stoughton, MA
Blueway Art Alliance, Northampton, MA
Pennsylvania Community College, Harrisburg, PA
Central Pennsylvania Community College, Lebanon, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Tulsa University, Tulsa, OK
Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT
Mount Gretna School of Art, Mount Gretna, PA
Washington Studio School, Washington, DC
Hendrix College, Arkansas
University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, Fort Smith, AR
Three Pines Studios, Cross Village, PA
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
Art Armory Center, West Palm Beach, FL
MICA, Baltimore, Maryland
Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Jerusalem Studio School, Jerusalem, Israel
Jerusalem Studio School Summer Italy Program
Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Regional Art Museum of Fort Smith, AR
Warren County Library, New Jersey
Pratt Art Institute, New York , NY
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
AWARDS
2012 Artist of the Year, Artist Community of Easton (ACE), Easton, PA
Artist-in-Residency 1988, Yosemite National Park, CA
COLLECTIONS
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
International Collage Center, Milton, PA/New York, NY
Portland Community College at Rock Creek, Portland, OR
San Francisco Arts Commission
Yosemite National Parks Museum, Yosemite, CA
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, PA
University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, AR
Hendrix College, Conway, AR
EDUCATION
Night watch, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (1981-1991)
University of California at Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, B.A. in Art 1976
Born April 20, 1953
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS (a selection)
2016
New Works. Gross McCleaf Gallery. Philadelphia, PA
Ken Kewley - A Survey: Painting, Drawings, Collages. Kentucky School of Art and Design, Louisville, KY
2015
Twenty-Five Works. Paintings, Drawing, Collages. Central Pennsylvania Community College, Lebanon, PA
Recent Collages. Brick + Mortar. Easton, PA
Ken Kewley: New Studio Paintings. Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ken Kewley: Twenty New Things. Portland Community College, Portland, OR
2014
Ken Kewley: Painting, Drawings, Collages. University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2013
Washington Studio School, Washington, DC
Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas
Recent Landscapes, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI
2012
Paintings and Collages, Present and Past, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv
Recent Dressing Room Paintings and Drawings, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI
Twenty One Works 1997 - 2012 - Paintings and Collages. Third Floor, Outside CE Office, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Ken Kewley: Paintings and Collages, Kunst 11 Zurich
Ken Kewley: Paintings and Collages 2000-2010, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 very small and very recent paintings, LaDuca Gallery, Easton, PA Ken Kewley, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, AR
2008 Ken Kewley: Very New Landscapes of Easton, PA, Jerusalem Studio School, Israel
2007
Ken Kewley: Collage & Painting, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
2005
Collages, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
1999
Barton-Ryan Gallery, Boston, MA
One Hundred Figure Paintings, Ansonia Window Show, New York
1997
Scott White Gallery (a.k.a. SOMA Gallery), La Jolla
1995
Hackett/Freedman Gallery (a.k.a. Contemporary Realist Gallery), San Francisco, CA
Scott White Gallery (a.k.a. SOMA Gallery), Project Room, San Diego, CA
1976 State Street Paintings, Collage of Creative Studies, University of California at
Santa Barbara, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Presence: Encounters with the Figure. Five Points Gallery. Torrington, CT
REFIGURED Glass. Paper. Thread. Jolie Stahl, Ken Kewley, Rosemarie Beck. Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY.
2017
Ken Kewley & Clara Kewley. People & Places. Connexion Gallery, Easton, PA
Drawing Invitational curated by Mark Andres. Gallery 114, Portland, Oregon
Art at Kings Oaks. Kings Oaks Farm, Newtown, PA
Ying Li - Ken Kewley. Selected Works. Truro Center for the Arts, Truro , MA
Clara Kewley & Ken Kewley. Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI
Ken Kewley + Michael Kondel. Brick + Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA
2016
Figures: Ken Kewley, Brian Kreydatus, Sterling Shaw, Mickayel Thurin. Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
50 Shades of Red. Herter Gallery. University of Massachusetts Amherst. MA
2015
Shape Play. Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Bettina Nelson & Ken Kewley. Washington Studio School, Washington, DC
Lilies, Figs and Follies: Contemporary Still Life. Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
A Fine Arrangement: The Art of Still Life. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Boom. Easton, PA
Black and White, Photographs and Drawings: Bill Schwab and Ken Kewley, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI (June 2014).
Women in Interiors, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Gorgeous Nothings, Three Pines Studio, Cross Village, MI
Paper Works, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
Color: Imagined and Observed, Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary
2013
Certain Densities, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, MO
Edge vs. Line, Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College
Stuart Shils & Ken Kewley, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
Small is Big, Five Painters, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, Katonah Museum of Art, NY, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, PA
2012
Rothschild Fine Arts, Kunst12Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Social Friends, Thomas Dean Fine Arts, Atlanta, Georgia
Bound/Unbound, Fairleigh Dickinson, New Jersey
Five New Dressing Room Paintings, SHFAP, New York, NY
meta-decorative, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, Scope - New York
The Annual 2012, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Search the Surface (four abstract artist), Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2011 Pennsylvania Seen – Southeast Landscapes, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
Shipped and Shaped, Andrews Gallery, The College of William and Mary, VA
Flirting with Abstraction, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Collage Perspectives (5 collage artists), List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA
2008 Ken Kewley / John Goodrich, Armstrong – Hipkins Center for the Arts, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
Inaugural Exhibition, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Culture of Collage, Zoller Gallery, Penn State, State College, PA
Genova Meets Easton, Genova, Italy
2007
Anniversary: Ten Years of Gallery Art and Artists, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
Three Artist: Raphael Soyer, William Gothhard, Ken Kewley, eDavid gallery, Bethlehem, PA In Context collage + abstraction, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
2006
Just Desserts – Ken Kewley/Lori Larusso, Brickwalk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
After Images: Ken Kewley/Isadore LaDuca, Connexion Gallery, Easton, PA
2004-05
Tabletop Arenas, Zeuxis: An Association of Still Life Painters, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; traveled to: Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York; The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA; Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2004
Intimate Purlieus: The Diminutive Landscape and Contemporary Art, The Palmer Museum, University Park, PA
2002
Five in Collage, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
2001
Power of the Seen: Eleven Painters Work From Life, The Painting Center, New York
2000
Hackett-Freedman Gallery Artists, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
1998
National Academy of Design, New York, 173rd Annual Exhibition
1997
Landscapes, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, Still Lifes, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996
The History of Yosemite Park in Paintings, Yosemite Museum, CA
1994
New Bay Area Painting, Hackett/Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
Summer/Landscapes, The Gallery, Three Zero, New York
People II, The Gallery, Three Zero, New York
1992
New Generation, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
National Academy of Design, New York, 167th Annual Exhibition
Bibliography
Kennedy, Tim. Ken Kewley - Life Composed. The Artist’s Magazine. December 2017.
Newhall, Edith. Painterly Collages. The Inquirer, Philadelphia, November 27, 2011
Meier, Philipp. Review of Kunst 11 Zurich, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, November 17, 2011
Burg, Avital. Interview, Haaretz (Tel Aviv), January 16, 2011.
Grossman, Ruth. Review, Haaretz (Tel Aviv), March 1, 2011
Thornton, John R. Collage Perspective Goldfine, Gil. “The Challenge of Realism,” The Jerusalem Press: July 31, 2008 Mullarkey, Maureen. “On Board,” The New York Sun, July 19, 2007
Mullarkey, Maureen. “Abstract Jewels of Modernism,” The New York Sun, June 7, 2007
Lima, Jackie. Collage and Painting, (essay on the Lafayette exhibition, published on my website) 2007 Gehman, Geoff. The Morning Call (review) February 2007
Gelber, Eric. ArtCritical.com (review), October 2005
Naves, Mario. “Renoir Redeemed,” The New York Observer, October 17, 2005
Smith, Roberta. The New York Times (review), April 8, 2005
Mullarkey, Maureen. The New York Sun, September 15, 2005
Haggerty, Gerard. Artnews (review), December, 2005
Mullarkey, Maureen. “Gallery Going,” The New York Sun, April 29, 2004
Naves, Mario. “Still-life Association Zeuxis Communes With the Inanimate,” The New York Observer, July 19, 2004
Collischan, Judith. ARTnews (review), May, 2002
Siegel, Lee. “Five in Collage” (catalog essay) 2002
TEACHING AND LECTURING
William & Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia
Winslow Art Center, Bainbridge Island, WA
Northeast Artist Workshops, Gloucester, ME
SCAPE, Sounthern California Artists for the Protection of the Envirnoment, Santa Barbara, CA
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, AR
Connexion Gallery, Easton, PA
Concord Arts, Concord, MA
Warehouse 521, Nashville, TN
Flint Museum of Art, Flint, MI
Portland Community College at Rock Creek, Portland, OR
Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD
Kentucky School of Art and Design. Louisville, PA
Art Workshops Boulder, Boulder, CO
Stoughton School District K-12 Art Teachers, Stoughton, MA
Blueway Art Alliance, Northampton, MA
Pennsylvania Community College, Harrisburg, PA
Central Pennsylvania Community College, Lebanon, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Tulsa University, Tulsa, OK
Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT
Mount Gretna School of Art, Mount Gretna, PA
Washington Studio School, Washington, DC
Hendrix College, Arkansas
University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, Fort Smith, AR
Three Pines Studios, Cross Village, PA
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA
University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
Art Armory Center, West Palm Beach, FL
MICA, Baltimore, Maryland
Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Jerusalem Studio School, Jerusalem, Israel
Jerusalem Studio School Summer Italy Program
Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Regional Art Museum of Fort Smith, AR
Warren County Library, New Jersey
Pratt Art Institute, New York , NY
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
AWARDS
2012 Artist of the Year, Artist Community of Easton (ACE), Easton, PA
Artist-in-Residency 1988, Yosemite National Park, CA
COLLECTIONS
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
International Collage Center, Milton, PA/New York, NY
Portland Community College at Rock Creek, Portland, OR
San Francisco Arts Commission
Yosemite National Parks Museum, Yosemite, CA
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, PA
University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, AR
Hendrix College, Conway, AR
EDUCATION
Night watch, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (1981-1991)
University of California at Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, B.A. in Art 1976
