KEN PRICE
Born: Los Angeles, 1935
Died: Taos, NM, 2012
Education: New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 1959
Los Angeles County Art Institute, 1957
University of Southern California, B.F.A., 1956
Studied at Otis College of Art and Design (formerly the Los Angeles County Art Institute), Los Angeles
Selected One-Person Exhibitions:
2013
Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works on Paper, 1962-2010, The Drawing Center, New York. Will travel to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo and The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
2012
Bulgogi, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Traveled to Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. Traveled to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Night (1947 to 2015), The Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT
2011
“Death Shrine I” from “Happy’s Curios”, The Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos
2010
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2008
Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles
2007
New Work, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
2006
Sculpture and Drawing 1962-2006, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
2005
Sculpture from 2004, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Works on Paper, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
2004
Sculpture and Drawings 1994–2004, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
Works on Paper, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
2003
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2002
Small Is Beautiful, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA (catalogue)
Talking Pictures, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
New Work, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
2001
Parazette + Price Material Morph, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
New Work, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1999
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1997
New Work, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS
1996
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
1995
Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA (catalogue)
1994
Ceramic Sculpture & Drawings, Harwood Foundation Museum of the University of New Mexico, Taos
Recent Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1992
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Menil Collection, Houston (catalogue)
1991
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
1990
Sena West Gallery, Santa Fe
1989
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis. Traveled to Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco and Georges Lavrov Gallery, Paris (catalogue)
1987
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
1986
Willard Gallery, New York
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
1985
Willard Gallery, New York
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1983
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1982
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Willard Gallery, New York
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
1981
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1980
Visual Arts Museum, New York
Texas Gallery, Houston
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
1979
Texas Gallery, Houston
Hansen, Fuller, Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
Willard Gallery, New York
1978
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue)
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, NM
1976
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
1974
Felicity Samuel Gallery, London
Willard Gallery, New York
1973
Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
1972
Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
1971
David Whitney Gallery, New York. Traveled to Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Neuendorf, Cologne; and Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg
1970
Kasmin Gallery, London
Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (catalogue)
1969
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2013
The Artist and the Poet, Art Institute of Chicago
2012
EST-3: Southern California in New York, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Highlights from The Harwood Museum of Art’s Collection of Contemporary Art, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
2011
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
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950 – 1970, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1950 – 1980, Getty Research Institute, Getty Center, Los Angeles
Common Ground: Ceramics in Southern California 1945-1975, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
2010
Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Houseguest: Frances Stark Selects from the Grunwald Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Josef Albers / Ken Price, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
2009
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Hopper at the Harwood, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
2008
Las Vegas Collects Contemporary, Las Vegas Art Museum
Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (catalogue)
2007
The David Whitney Bequest, Menil Collection, Houston
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s From LACMA's Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives
Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, University of California, Los Angeles
One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2006
Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden,
Ken Price, Charles Ray, Terry Winters: Recent Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Los Angeles 1955–85, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2004
A Secret History of Clay: From Gauguin to Gormley, Tate Liverpool (catalogue)
Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (catalogue)
2003
Rebels in Clay: Peter Voulkos and the Otis Group, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
Materials, Metaphor & Narratives: Work by Six Contemporary Artists, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Contemporary Art/Taos, Harwood Museum, Taos, NM (catalogue)
2002
Summer 2002, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Smile, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Something, Anything, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (catalogue)
Lateral Thinking: The Art of the 1990’s, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA (catalogue)
2001
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, SITE Santa Fe Fourth International Biennial, Santa FE
2000
Made in California: Art, Image, Identity 1900–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Sixties: 1960–69, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1999
Contemporary Ceramics, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1998
Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A. 1960–1997, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, University of California, Los Angeles
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, American Academy of Art and Letters, New York
The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art
Homemade Champagne, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. Traveled to Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy
Clay into Art: Selections from the Collection of Contemporary Ceramics in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1997
Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A. 1960–1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
1995
A California Collection, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
1994
New Sculpture, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
1993
Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH. Traveled to St. Louis Art Museum
5 x 7, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY (catalogue)
1991
Shigaraki Museum of Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
California Finish Fetish, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1990
Putting Pottery into Perspective: Past, Present and Future, Rockford College, Rockford, IL (catalogue)
1989
Kansas City Collects Contemporary Ceramics, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (catalogue)
1988
L.A. Hot and Cool: Pioneers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Big/Little Sculpture, Williams College of Art, Williamstown, MA (catalogue)
1987
Tomaya Now, Museum of Modern Art, Tomaya, Japan (catalogue)
Inaugural Exhibition, Menil Collection, Houston (catalogue)
Clay Revision: Cup, Plate, Vase, Seattle Art Museum (catalogue)
1986
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945–1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Material and Metaphor: Contemporary American Sculpture, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center (catalogue)
Poetry of the Physical-Craft Today, American Craft Museum, New York (catalogue)
1985
American/European Painting and Sculpture, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
1984
A Different Climate, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
1983
American Accents, United States Embassy, Ottawa (catalogue)
Opening Exhibition, Temporary Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1982
Painting and Sculpture Today 1982, Indianapolis Museum of Art
One Hundred Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1981
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
California, The State of Landscape, 1872–1981, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue)
Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue)
Betty Asher’s Cups, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport, CA
Artist’s Quilts, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
1980
Los Angeles Prints, 1883–1980, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue)
1979
One Hundred Years of American Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (catalogue)
Contemporary Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
West Coast Ceramics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
West Coast/Three Visions, Museum of Art, History and Science, Albuquerque (catalogue)
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
1978
Nine West Coast Clay Sculptors, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1977
Miniature, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Tamarind Suite 15, University of Missouri, Kansas City. Traveled to University of California, Los Angeles and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Small Objects, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Watercolors and Related Media by Contemporary Californians, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)
1976
200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
30 Years of American Printmaking, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Ferus 1957–1966, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue)
1975
Sculpture: American Directions, 1945–1975, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1974
Clay, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
1972
West Coast, USA, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (catalogue)
20th Century Sculpture from Southern California Collections, University of California, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Silkscreen, A Historical Review, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Contemporary American Art: Los Angeles, Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Forth Worth, TX
Joe Goode, Kenneth Price, Ed Ruscha, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1971
Contemporary Ceramic Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
11 Los Angeles Artists, Hayward Gallery, London. Traveled to Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels and Akademie der Künste, Berlin (catalogue)
Gemini: Technics and Creativity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Gemini: Experiments in Graphics, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (catalogue)
1970
Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Nine Print Portfolios, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
7th Annual National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)
International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (catalogue)
Kompas 4: West Coast USA, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (catalogue)
1969
Tamarind: Homage of Lithography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Contemporary Drawing Show, Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Forth Worth, TX (catalogue)
California, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)
1967
Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue)
1966
Robert Irwin/Kenneth Price, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue)
Ten from Los Angeles, Seattle Art Museum (catalogue)
Five Los Angeles Sculptors and Sculptors' Drawings, University of California, Irvine (catalogue)
Abstract Expressionist Ceramics, Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine (catalogue)
1964
New American Sculpture, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)
1963
Sculpture of California, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1962
Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)