More about Ken Kalman

Ken Kalman
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Detroit Michigan.
Nineteen hundred and fifty five.
The Motor City ruled the world.
Having been born in that magical time and place might suggest the source of the seeds that grew in Ken Kalman and compelled him to embrace the medium he has chosen.
But unlike the Motor City, Ken found his inspiration from seeing the harmony and the irony in the world around him. And unlike the Motor City, Ken has only gotten better and more prolific over the years.

Above: Ken Kalman, "Chrysler", 13.5 x 8.5 x 8.5, aluminum sheet, glass, rivets, screws, electrical cord/plug

Ken Kalman

Solo Exhibitions:

• Ken Kalman: Points of Interest, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2013
• Ken Kalman: Historical Narrative: A Survey Through Objects and Collectables, Dominican University of California – San Marco Gallery, San Rafael, CA  2012
• Ken Kalman, OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York 2012
• Ken Kalman, Metal, Wood, Paper, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009
• Animal, Insects and Mapworks, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA  2008
• Crockett Contemporary Art, Crockett, CA  2006
• Native ♦ Sculptures by Ken Kalman, Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Walnut Creek, CA  2002
• Transamerica Two, San Francisco, California 1995
• AirTouch Communications, Walnut Creek, California  1995
• Gensler and Associates Architects, San Francisco, California 1994
• Reed Whipple Cultural Center, Las Vegas, Nevada 1993
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Two and Three Person Exhibitions:

• Gary Dinnen, Ken Kalman, Maureen Hood, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento CA  2009
• Aluminum, Three Person Show, Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA  2004
• Two Person Show, Central California Art Center, Modesto, CA  1999
• Sculpture, Works by Kalman, Bui and Thrift, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994
• 4N3D, Works by Bui, Falk, Kalman and Matsumoto, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA  1993
• Constructure, Works by Robin Bernstein and Ken Kalman, College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield Campus, San Raphael, California 1993
• Ken Kalman and Michael Wells, New Ground Gallery, Montclair, California 1993
• Ken Kalman and Neil Hart, Modesto Junior College Art Gallery, Modesto, CA 1992
• Ken Hendrickson and Ken Kalman, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1991
• Independence / Interdependence, Paul Douglas and Ken Kalman, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990
• Mary Hatch and Ken Kalman,
• Ruth Volid Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1989

Group Exhibitions:

• Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012
• Art of Baseball 15th Annual Exhibition, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012
• One Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Indiana 2012
• A Selection of Very Nice Pictures, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011
• The Fine Art of Baseball: 14th Annual, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011
• Football Invitational, National Art Museum of Sport, Indianapolis, Indiana 2011
• Treasures from the Gallery Collection, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010
• Family Reunion, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA 2010
• Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katanoh, New York 2010
• Twisted, Chiseled, and Fired, Danville Art Gallery, Danville, CA 2010
• Summer Reading, George Krevsky Galery, San Francisco, CA 2010
• Rookies and Pros, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010
• Summer Exhibition, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009
• The 12th Annual Art of Baseball Exhibition, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009
• The Animal Within, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA 2009
• A Modern Day Drawings Cabinet, Bay Area Figurative Works, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009
• Marking Time: Omer Calendars by Community Artists, BJE Jewish Community Library, San Francisco, CA 2009
• Wild Thing!, The Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards. Yountville, CA 2008
• Building a Team, The 11th Annual Art of Baseball Exhibition, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA  2008
• Community Artists Look at Israel, BJE Jewish Community Library, San Francisco, CA  2008
• Small Treasures with a Special Twist, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA  2007
• Curtain Call, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA  2007
• Americana, The Main ARTery Gallery, Benicia, CA  2007
• Spring Training: The Art of Baseball, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA  2007
• All About Books: Artists’ Books, BJE Jewish Community Library, San Francisco, CA  2007
• A Closer Look, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA  2007
• Creatures of Magic and Myth, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA  2007
• 2006 Fall Exhibit, Perlow-Stevens Gallery, Columbia, Missouri, 2006
• Menagerie: Artists Look at Animals, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA  2006
• My America, George Krevsky Gallery,  San Francisco, CA  2006
• Baseball and Jazz, James Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA  2006
• Summer Exhibition, Claudia Chapline Gallery,  Stinson Beach, CA  2006
• Auberge du Soleil, I. Wolk Gallery,  Rutherford, CA  2006
• 12th Annual Ruth Bancroft Garden Sculpture Show, Walnut Creek, CA  2006
• Spring Green and Woven Things, Artscape, Walnut Creek, CA  2006
• Top of the Ninth, The Art of Baseball, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA  2006
• Works on Paper, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005
• Tiger in the House, Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005
• Sculpture: Then and Now, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA  2005
• Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA  2004
• Primates, Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA  2004
• Modesto Junior College Faculty Exhibition, Modesto, CA  2004
• Solomen Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA  2004
• Time, Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003
• Metal, Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA  2003
• Figurative Show, Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA  2002
• Modesto Junior College Faculty Exhibition, Modesto, CA  2001
• Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA  2001
• Inspired by Title, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA  2000
• Modesto Junior College Faculty Exhibition, Modesto, CA  1999
• Before the Fall, 5 Sculptors, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA  1999
• Boritzer, Gray, Hamano Gallery, Santa Monica, CA  1998
• Terrain Gallery,
• San Francisco, CA  1998
• Island Arts, Newport, Rhode Island  1998
• Yerba Buena Sculpture Walk ’98, San Francisco, CA  1998
• San Francisco Art Institue, Masters Thesis Exhibition, Herbst Pavillion Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA, 1998
• Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA  1997
• Lumina of New Mexico, Taos, New Mexico, 1997
• Yerba Buena Sculpture Walk ’97, San Francisco, CA 1997
• Posner Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan 1997
• Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA  1997
• Quietude Garden Gallery, East Brunswick, New Jersey, 1997
• Northern Telecommunications Corporation, Santa Clara, CA  1997
• Northern Telecommunications Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 1996
• Yerba Buena Sculpture Walk ’96, San Francisco, CA 1996
• Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996
• Joan Roebuck Gallery, Lafayette, CA 1996
• Joan Roebuck Gallery​, Lafayette, CA 1995
• Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA  1995
• Posner Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA  1994
• Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993
• Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993
• Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1992
• Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1991
• Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA 1991
• Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990
• Ruth Volid Gallery, Chicago, IL 1989
• Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1989
• Arden Gallery, Boston, MA 1988
• Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988
• Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA 1988
• Ruth Volid Gallery, Chicago, IL 1988
• Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1987
• Interart Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1986
• Djurovich Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1985
• Los Llanos Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1983
• GMB Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1983
• Navasaya Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1983
• Robert Taylor Galleries, Houston, TX 1982
• Images ll, Houston, TX 1982
• Ruth Volid Gallery, Chicago, IL 1982
• Performance Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1982
• Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham, MI 1978​

Catalogs, Television and Publications:

• Ken Kalman: “Points of Interest” at George Krevsky Gallery by Dewitt Cheng, Art.ltd, San Francisco, CA  Jan./Feb. 2014
• Ivan Karp Has Died at 86, by Christopher Conry,
• All Creative Products, N.Y., N.Y June 29, 2012
• Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge, Epressbooks, Inc. SF, CA  2012
• Lou’s Views: The Artists of Summer by Lou Harry 
• Indianapolis Business Journal, August 6, 2011
• Art exhibit captures the boys of summer by Don Sanchez
• ABC channel 7, KGO-TV, San Francisco, CA. Tuesday April 5, 2011
• The Fine Art of Baseball: Giants-tinged show – section E-1 by Steven Winn
• San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday April 6, 2011
• Travel Guide to Napa Valley
• Auberge du Soleil
• The New York Times, Tuesday January 25, 2011
• Cartographic Imagery in Contemporary Art, by Hwa Young Caruso and John Caruso Jr., Katonah Museum of Art.
• International Journal of Multicultural Education. Volume 12, No. 2, 2011
• Mapping, Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art.
• Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y. October 2010- January 2011
• Fine Art Meets Fine Wine in Napa Valley, by  Jaime Gross
• Auberge du Solei
• The New York Times, Travel section, October 4, 2009
• The 12th Annual Art of Baseball, Exhibition Catalogue
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2009
• Marking Time: Omer Calendars
• BJE Community Library Catalogue, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2009
•  East Bay sculptor hammers home a love of animals by Dan Pine
• Jewish Weekly, Feb. 6, 2009
• Public Art, Bay Area governments requiring developers to pay for creative works, by Jessica Saunders,
• East Bay Business Times, Friday April 25, 2008
• Community Artists Look at Israel
• BJE Community Library Catalogue, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2008
• Solomon Dubnick Gallery joins midtown’s burgeoning arts scene, by Dixie Reid
• Sacramento Bee, Ticket section, Sacramento, CA, Sunday  June 3, 2007
• American Style, page 43, Baltimore Maryland, June 2007,
• Guest Lecturer: Berkeley Kiwanis Club, Berkeley, CA  2007
• All About Books; Artists’ Books
• BJE Community Library Catalogue, San Francisco, CA  2007
• To some, baseball always will remain a work of art, by Dave Newhouse
• Oakland Tribune, Metro section, April 9, 2007
• Writing on the Wall by Joel Sager
• Perlow-Stevens Gallery News, Columbia, Missouri, October 28, 2006
• Previews by Debra Koppman
• Artweek July/August  2006
• Henry’s Garden (Garden sculpture)
• KRON 4 TV, August  2006
• ‘Top of the Ninth’ artwork catches attention, by Robert Taylor, Weekend Art
• Contra Costa Times,West County Times, East County Times, Valley Times, San Ramon Valley, April 6, 2006
• Top of the Ninth, The Art of Baseball Exhibition Catalogue
• George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA  2006
• Spotlight by Jennifer Modenessi
• Contra Costa Sunday Times, West County Times, East County Times, Valley Times, San Ramon Valley, January 8, 2006,
• Native, Lindsday Wildlife Museum
• San Francisco Bay Guardian, Critics Choice, May 29, 2002
• Emeryville News, December 2001, Emeryville, CA  2001
• The Modesto Bee, September 5, 2001, Modesto, California
• Exhibition Catalogue
• San Francisco Art Institute MFA, San Francisco, CA  1998
• 10th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition Catalogue, Emeryville, CA  1996
• The Modesto Bee, Sunday Arts Section, September 12, 1993,
• Las Vegas Review Journal, Page 17D, March 19, 1993
• Sculptures, Photos at MJC
• The Modesto Bee, September 6, 1992
• Juxtapositions
• Focus, Modesto, CA, September 3, 1992
• California Works Catalogue
• California Exposition, Sacramento, CA 1992
• The Carnation Collection Catalogue
• Nestle Corporation, Glendale, CA 1992
• American Artists, An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporaries
• American References Publishing Corporation, Chicago, IL 1990
• Art in Embassies, Department of State: Twenty Five Years at the US State Department, 1964-1989 by Douglas McCreary Greenwood, Published by Friends of Art and Preservation of Embassies, 1989
• Mary Hatch and Ken Kalman, Chicago Tribune, Sunday, April 16, 1989
• California Art Review
• American References Publishing Corporation, Chicago, IL 1989
• All California ’86 On a Small Scale Catalogue
• Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA 1986
• OCAA 20th Annual All Media Exhibition Catalogue, Brea, CA 1986
  

Corporate Collections:

• United States Department of State, Washington, D.C.
• Milwaukee Bucks, Milwaukee, WI
• Nestle’ Corporation, Glendale, CA
• Letterpower Institute, Chicago, IL
• Crawford/Wu Films, San Francisco, CA
• Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, Illinois
• Hewlett Packard Corp, San Diego, CA
• Hewlett Packard Corp, Atlanta, Georgia
• Kaiser Permanente Corporation, Rancho Cordova, CA
• Kaiser Permanente Corporation, San Francisco, CA
• Corp Art, Rockville, MD
• Tiffany and Company Jewelers, San Francisco, CA
• Intergroup Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
• Ruth Volid Gallery Inc., Chicago, IL
• Pensione International Hotel, San Francisco, CA
• Sheppard Pratt Health System, Baltimore, Maryland
• Jewish Community Library, San Francisco, CA

EDUCATION

• MFA in Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute,
  San Francisco, California  1998
• B.A., Fine Arts, University of New Mexico
  Albuquerque, NM 1981
• B.A., History, University of New Mexico
  Albuquerque, NM 1979
• Undergraduate Studies, Northern Michigan University
  Marquette, MI 1977-78
• College of Basic Studies, Boston University
  Boston, MA 1975-77

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