Ken D. Little
Born Canyon, Texas, April 8, 1947
Education:
Education 1972 M.F.A. - University of Utah, Salt Lake City
1970 B.F.A. - Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Selected one-person exhibitions:
2007 Heavy Metal, Glow, Bucks and Dough, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX
2006 Ken Little, Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas
2005 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada
Untitled Artspace, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2004 Little Changes, traveling retrospective exhibition:
The Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana
The Nicolaysen Museum, Casper, Wyoming
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
The Desmond Lee Gallery, U. of Washington, St. Louis
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis California
2003 Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, Texas
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
2001 The Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas
Hotel Pupik 01, Schrattenberg, Austria
2000 The City Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
1999 Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1998 The Center for Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas
1997 The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
The Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, Texas
1996 ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
1994 Diverseworks, Houston, Texas
1990 Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California at Davis
Jennifer Pauls Gallery, Sacramento, California
1989 The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Southwest Texas State University Art Gallery, San Marcos, Texas
1987 Mabee Gerrer Museum, Shawnee, Oklahoma
1986 Blanden Memorial Art Center, Fort Dodge, Iowa
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon
1984 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
San Antonio Art Institute, Texas
Brown Lupton Gallery, T.C.U., Fort Worth, Texas
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas
1983 Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Hawaii
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
Art Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada
John M. Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York
1980 Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Selected group exhibitions:
2008 So these two artists meet in Texas, JAYJAY, Sacramento, CA
2007 Camp Marfa, TX
2006 BEAST, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, Texas
Around the Figure, CH’I Contemporary Fine Art, Brooklyn NY
2005 State of Texas – Clay, The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of
Art and Art History Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Urbanisms of Risk: Economies of Technology, War and World in Art, Architecture
and the City, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
“Rock, Paper, Scissors” Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
“Blue Star 20” Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
“Summer Heat: Summer Salon” Chi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2004 The Hunt: Ritual & Narritive, The Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
The Figurative Point of View, Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, California
Ready to Wear, The John M. Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Texas Uprising, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
Vibrant Vessels and Neon, Coastal Bend College, Beeville, Texas
Southern States Sculpture Exhibition, The Center for Contemporary Art,
Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
2003 The Halualoa Foundation, Halualoa, Hawaii
The Crocker Museum, Sacramento, California
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Art House, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin Texas
Figure Once Removed, University of Dallas Haggarty Gallery, Irving Texas
2002 Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, Colorado
The Field Museum, Chicago Illinois
The Johnson Atilier, Mercerville, New Jersey
The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Barry Whistler Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
3D Chicago/ Outdoor Sculpture at the Navy Pier
Visual Perspectives: 14 Years of the Virginia A. Groot Awards, Groot
Foundation Space, SOFA Chicago at Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
2001 BorderArt/GrensKunst, Gallery Klinger, Goerlitz, Germany
Hotel Pupik 01, Drawing Exhibition and Musical Performance
BorderArt/GrensKunst, The UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada
Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas Texas
Guten Tag, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
Creature (dis) Comforts, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
2000 Assistance League of Houston, Texas
Mazur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana
Stephen F. Austin University Gallery, Nachogdoches, Texas
Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada
Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California at Davis
Houston Sculpture 2000, Houston Texas
1999 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt lake City, Utah
1998 The Corpus Christi Art Museum, Texas
Landmark Arts Gallery, Lubbock, Texas
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
The Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, Texas
1997 The Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington
The Boise Museum of Art, Boise, Idadho
The Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama
1996 The John Micheal Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Horowitch Lewallen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1995 The Glassel School Gallery, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Texas
The Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
1994 The Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Dean Moniz Gallery, Sacramento, California
Mc Nay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1993 The Art Gallery, California State Univ. at San Bernadino
The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Cliff Michel Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Dean Moniz Gallery, Sacramento, California
Myra Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1992 Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Texas
1991 Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
Art Gallery, North Texas State University, Denton
1990 Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
San Antonio Art Institute, Texas
El Paso Museum of Art, Texas
1989 Hudson River Art Museum, Yonkers, New York
Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
John M. Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Amarillo Art Center, Texas
Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
1988 The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cliff Michel Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Braunstien/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cliff Michel Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Braunstien/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
1987 Anchorage Museum of Art, Alaska
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Bellevue Art Museum, Washington
1985 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
Tyler Museum of Art, Texas
Norman McKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
1984 De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Fort Worth Gallery, Texas
1983 Oklahoma Arts Center, Oklahoma City
Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, Alaska
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri
1982 Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1981 John M. Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Newport Harbor Art Museum, California
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Lawndale Annex, Houston, Texas
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho
Wyoming State Art Gallery, Cheyenne
1980 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
1979 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Nelson Gallery, University of California Davis
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York
1977 William Hayes Acklund Memorial Art Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Long Beach Museum of Art, California
Boise Art Gallery, Idaho
Henry Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1976 John M. Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Public commissions:
1988 Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Art Commission, Art in Public Places
Program, Seattle, Washington completed 1991
Selected fellowships, grants, etc.:
2002 Virginia Groot Award for Excellence in Sculpture
2001 BorderArt/GrensKunst Artist Residency Exchange Grant, Germany
Virginia Groot Foundation Award for Excellence in Sculpture
1998 Arts/Industry Residency Grant, Through the John M. Kohler Art Center and
the Cast Iron Foundry of the Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin
1994-1995 International Artist in Residency Program, Artpace, A Foundation for
Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
1991 Visual Artist's Fellowship, Penny McCall Foundation, New York
1988-89 Individual Artist's Fellowship (Major Award "Sculpture")
National Endowment for the Arts
1985 Sculpture Fellowship, Mid-America Art Alliance
1982-83 Individual Artist's Fellowship (Major Award "CraftsCategory"),
National Endowment for the Arts
Selected reviews and publications:
2004 The Sculpture Reference, by Arthur Williams, published by sculpturebooks.com; illustrations
“Regionalism Without Apology” article by Frances Colpitt for Artlies Magazine; Summer 2004, page 34-37, with photos
“The Buck Stops Here: a conversation with Ken Little” by Kathleen Whitney, Sculpture Magazine; December 2004, pages 50-55 /photos
2003 Little Changes, A Retrospective Catalog of the Artwork of Ken Little with essays by Dave Hickey and Kay Whitney, published by the Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, Texas
Dreaming Red, Creating ArtPace, with essays by Linda Pace, Jan Jarboe Russell, Elenor Heartney, and Kathryn Kanjo, published by ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
Navy Pier Walk 2002, the Chicago International Sculpture Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
Visual Perspectives: 14 Years of the Virginia Groot Awards, published by the Virginia Groot Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop Museum, Published by the Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 Trashformations: Recycled Materials in Contemporary Art, catalogue for four year touring exhibition under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1999 Goddard, Dan, Animal Instincts: Humor, Irony stalk exhibit. San Antonio Express News, Arts & Entertainment (p. 1G, 8G), photos
1998 “Ken Little: Native Son” by Glen Brown, review of Amarillo Art Museum Exhibition, New Art Examiner Magazine, January
“Ken Little: Meaning in Masquerade”” by Glen Brown, Focus article, Sculpture Magazine, vol. 17 no. 7, pg. 14-15
1993 Target: South Texas/Depth of Field, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, exhibition catalog, March –June
1992 Blue Star Seven (plus) 7, The Blue Star Art Space, exhibition catalog, July-August
1991 1991 Invitational Exhibition: Roswell Museum and Art Center, exhibition catalogue, essay by Laurie Rufe, September, (10 pgs)
“Pause to think” by Ruri Yapolsky, Seattle Arts 1991: a publication by Seattle Arts Commission: Vol.14 No. 9, September, (pg. 12-13)
“Ken Little” by Anthony Lee, Art of California Magazine, March, cover
1990 “What Makes us Tick: The tell Tale Heart at the WPA” review by Mike Welzenbach, The Washington Post, March 15.
“The Tell Tale Heart,” an exhibition catalogue and artist’s book published by the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. February.
1989 “Ken Little at the Blue Star Art Space” by Dan Goddard, Sculpture magazine; September, October; Vol. 8 No. 5
Blackburn, Geffet, Little, Mims, and Waters: Five Texas Installations, catalog published by the Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, 19 pages, reproductions, March
1988 “Second Hand: an exhibition of contemporary found object art,” catalog published by the John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 14 pages, reproductions, September
1987 The Eloquent Object, catalog accompanying touring exhibition, edited by Marcia and Tom Manhart of the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; University of Washington Press, Seattle (298 pgs.), photo and text p. 193 “Ken Dawson
Little: A Bestiary of Damaged Goods”, by Dave Hickey, Artspace Magazine, pp. 26-28 and cover illustration
1982-1985 Ken Dawson Little: Selected Sculpture, catalog published by the Bladen Memorial Art Center Fort Dodge, Iowa, and the Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington, essay by Dave Hickey, 20 pages, reproductions
1985 Space Invaders, catalog for group exhibition published by the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, February 1 – March 24, University of Regina Saskatchewan, Canada; essays by Sandy Nairne and Bruce Ferguson, 128 pages (photos)
“Tall Tales: Ken Little’s Portraits of the West”, by Ed Forde, American Ceramics Magazine, Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 18-25 (photograph)
1984 “Ken Little at the San Antonio Art Institute”, review by Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser, Artspace magazine, Vol. 8, no.3, Summer, p. 58 (photograph)
“Ken Little at Susan Caldwell, Inc.”, review by Rose Slivka, Art in America Magazine, Summer, p. 171 (photograph)
1983 “Ken Little’s Call of the Wild”, review by Dan Rubey, The Missoulian newspaper, September 9, Sec. A-5 (photographs)
Ken Little: Shattered Portraits and Unlikely Heros, Perspective series publication, John Michael Kohler Art Center, September 18 – November 13, 8 pages with essay by Joanne Cubbs
Southern Fictions, group exhibition catalog published by the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, text by William Fagly and Dr. Munrow Spears, Aug. 2- Sept. 4
“Ken Little at Quay Gallery”, review by Jeff Kelly, Vanguard magazine, May 1983, pages 34-35 (photographs)
Ken Dawson Little; Catalog of Works, published by Quay Gallery, San Francisco in conjunction with traveling exhibition, essay by Susan Havens Caldwell, 25 pages, reproductions
Permanent public collections:
Henry Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, Florida
Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
Contemporary Arts Foundation, Honolulu, Hawaii
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Best Corporation, Sidney Lewis
Daniel Jacobs, New York City
State of Oklahoma
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
State of Hawaii, Foundation on Culture & The Arts
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pa
McDonald's Corporation, Sacramento, California
Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
King County Federal Building, Seattle
Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California at Davis
Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico
Microsoft Corporation, Seattle Washington
McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas
Artpace, A foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
Amarillo Art Museum, Texas
The Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
The Jack Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas