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KEVIN BERNSTEIN

EDUCATION

2003-2005 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Master of Fine Arts - Seattle, WA

1995-1999 RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN (RISD), Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors - Providence, RI

1997-1998 PALAZETTO CENCI, RISD European Honors Program - Rome, Italy

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON

2012Solo Exhibition, Dickinson State University - Dickinson, ND - Mar

2010"Formation," Solo Exhibition, Kansas Wesleyan University - Salina, KS - Feb

2009"Accumulation," Kahmeyer Lecture Series Exhibition, Mingenback Gallery, Bethany College, Invitational Solo Exhibition - Lindsborg, KS - Sep to Oct

2008"Lt. Governor's Art Council Exhibition," Solo Exhibition - Olympia, WA - Sept to Nov

2007 "Recent Works," Bellevue College, Solo Exhibition - Bellevue, WA - Apr to May

"Nature in Forms," West-Eleven Art Gallery, Two-Person Exhibition - London, United Kingdom - Jul

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012"International Painting NYC," Jeffrey Leder Gallery - New York City, NY – Jan – Feb JEFFREY LEDER, Gallery Director, Jeffrey Leder Gallery.(Jeffrey Leder, juror)

2011"Miami University Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award Exhibition,"
Hiestand Galleries Miami University - Oxford, OH – Dec – Feb 2012 IRENE HOFMANN, Phillips Director & Chief Curator, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico. Formerly the Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum, in Baltimore, Hofmann curated Bearing Witness, a multi-venue survey of the artist duo Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry. She also curated Cell Phone, the first museum survey of artworks created using cell phone technologies. She has also held positions as curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach and at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.(Irene Hofmann, juror)

"Art Faculty Biennial," Beach Museum, Kansas State University, Group Exhibition - Manhattan, KS - Nov to Mar 2012

Two British and Two American Universities - Book Arts Exhibition, (traveling exhibition), Oregon College of Art and Craft
Kansas State University, The University of the West of England (Bristol), UWE Library Gallery
West Wales School of the Arts, Oriel Thomas Gallery - Manhattan, KS, Portland, Oregon, Carmarthen, Wales, Bristol, England - Sep to Nov

"Tarfest 2011," KCCLA Gallery - Los Angeles, CA - Sep NANCY MEYER, Curatorial Assistant of Contemporary Art, LACMA(Nancy Meyer, juror)

"Brand 40: Fortieth Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper," Brand Library Galleries - Glendale, CA - Sep to Oct PETER FRANK is art critic for the Huffington Post and Adjunct Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum. He is past critic for Angeleno magazine and the L. A. Weekly and was Editor for THEmagazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly. Frank was born in New York, where he served as art critic for The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News, and moved to Los Angeles in 1988. Frank contributes articles to numerous publications and has organized numerous theme and survey shows, most notably "19 Artists – Emergent Americans," the 1981 Exxon National Exhibition mounted at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. McPherson & Co. Documentext published his Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography in 1983. A cycle of poems, The Travelogues, was issued by Sun & Moon Press in 1982. Abbeville Press released New, Used & Improved, an overview of the New York art scene co-written with Michael McKenzie, in 1987.(Peter Frank, juror)

"Enegry," International Exhibition, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) - Santa Ana, CA - Aug to Sep, 2011 HOWARD N. FOX is Curator Emeritus of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. At LACMA, beginning in 1985, he organized numerous major exhibitions and authored their catalogues, including Avant-Garde in the Eighties (1987), A Primal Spirit: Ten Contemporary Japanese Sculptors (1990), Lari Pittman (1996), and Eleanor Antin (1999). He was a collaborating curator and contributing author for Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000 and for Tim Hawkinson, co-organized by LACMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

He wrote a principal essay for the catalogue accompanying the 2006 exhibition Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital, organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and was co-curator of the recent LACMA exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement (2008). In 2010 he organized a 20-year survey exhibition of Los Angeles-based media artist Steve Roden for the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.

Often focusing on issues of content and meaning in contemporary art, Fox has published and lectured widely. He was previously a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., where he organized some of that museum's first large-scale exhibitions of contemporary art. From 2000 to 2004 he was a member of the History / Theory / Humanities Faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
(Howard N. Fox, juror)

"54th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art," Strohl Art Center Chautauqua Institution - Chautauqua, NY - Jun to Jul Jim Kempner of Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York City's Chelsea Art District
Bernstein received the Ellie Wilder Award from juror Jim KempnerMuseum
(Jim Kempner, juror)

"Sioux City Art Center's 62nd Juried Exhibition," Sioux City Art Center - Sioux City, IA - Jul to Sep Gilbert Vicario is the Curator at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa, and is the former Assistant Curator of Latin American Art and Latino Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum(Gilbert Vicario, juror)

"Academy of Fine Arts, 2011 Juried Art Exhibition," Academy of Fine Arts - Lynchburg, VA - April (George Billis, juror)

"PaperWorks 2011," The Art Gallery (TAG), University of West Florida - Pensacola, FL - Jan to Feb (Mia Kaplan, juror)

2010"Flux," Three Person Invitational Exhibition, Naked City Art Gallery - Wichita, KS - Nov to Dec

"Tarfest 2010," KCCLA Gallery - Los Angeles, CA - Sep to Oct (Edward Robinson, juror)

"(SICA) Seventh Annual International," The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts (SICA) - Long Branch, NJ - Sep to Nov (Mary Birmingham, juror)

"Macro/Micro," The Gallery at Marygrove, Marygrove College - Detroit, MI - Feb to Mar

"Der Zeitgenosse: A National Exhibition of Contemporary Art," Eastern Washington State University - Cheney, WA - Feb to Apr

"Creative Adaptation in the Visual Arts, 2010 Kreft Juried Group Exhibition," Concordia University - Ann Arbor, MI - Feb to Mar (Rebecca Hart, juror)

2009"Renewal:Art Faculty Biennial," Beach Museum, Kansas State University, Group Exhibition - Manhattan, KS - Sep to Jan (Saralyn Reece Hardy, juror)

"The Halpert Biennial 2009," Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Juried Group Exhibition - Boone, NC - May to Aug 2009 (Jeffrey Grove, juror)

"HAC: 40th Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibition," Juried Group Exhibition - Hays, KS - Apr - Jun (Jan Schall, juror)

"Forces and Formations," Soil Gallery, Group Exhibition - Seattle, WA - April to May

2008"Ad Astra Per Aspera," Kansas State & Kansas City Art & Design Faculty Exhibit, Art & Design Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition - Lawrence, KS - Nov

Chapman Gallery, Kansas State University, Group Exhibition - Manhattan, KS - Nov

2007"Expressions West," Coos Museum of Art, juried painting exhibition - Coos Bay, OR Apr to Jun 2007 (Amy Pence-Brown, juror)

University of Puget Sound , Group Exhibition - Tacoma, WA - Feb

2006"Non-Non Referential Painting," Crawl Space Gallery, Group Exhibition - Seattle, WA - Feb

2005"MFA Thesis Exhibition, "Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington - Seattle, WA - May

2004Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Group Exhibition - Seattle, WA - Sep

2002-2001Nancy Lincoln Gallery, Group Exhibition - Chestnut Hill, MA - Sep & Sep

2000 Fuller Museum, Faculty Exhibition - Brockton, MA - Jul

1999"Savlanut," Hillel, Brown University, Group Exhibition - Providence, RI - Jun

Woods Gerry Gallery, Illustration Juried Departmental Exhibition - Providence, RI - May

RISD, Senior Group Exhibition - Providence, RI - May

Boston Printmakers, Arches First Annual Juried Student Print Exhibition - Boston, MA - Mar

1998-1997 Palazetto Cenci, Fall and Spring Exhibitions - Rome, Italy - December & May

AWARDS, GRANTS, COLLECTIONS

2010North Cascades National Park Permanent Art Collection - Sedro Woolley, WA

School of Leadership, Kansas State University, Permanent Art Collection - Manhattan, KS

The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Permanent Art Collection - Manhattan, KS

2009Chapman, Research Grant - Manhattan, KS

USRG, Research Grant, Kansas State University - Manhattan, KS - 2009

2005HUB Permanent Art Collection, University of Washington, Director's Purchase Award - Seattle, WA - 2005

Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Awards Nominee - Seattle, WA - 2005

2004University of Washington Graduate Recruitment Assistantship - Seattle, WA - 2004

RESIDENCES

2009Artists Trust / Centrum Residency, Recipient Russell Jaqua Award for Artistic Excellence - Port Townsend, WA - May to Jun

2007Artist-in-Residence North Cascades National Park - Newhalem, WA - Apr to May

LECTURES

2010KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Artist Lecture - Salina, KS - Feb

2009BETHANY COLLEGE, Kahmeyer Lecture Series, Artist Lecture - Lindsborg, KS - Nov

BEACH MUSEUM OF ART, Lecture Panelist - Manhattan, KS - Nov

WEST WALES SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, Artist Lecture - Carmarthen, Wales - Mar

2007NORTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARK, Artist Lecture - Sedro-Woolley, WA - Jul

BELLEVUE COLLEGE, Artist Lecture - Bellevue, WA - Apr

PUBLICATIONS

2011Studio Visit Magazine, Fall Edition, Ian Berry, juror, Open Press Studios, Boston, MA: Fall 2011. (Ian Berry, juror)

Creative Quarterly Magazine, CQ24 Online Gallery, 3x3 Publishing, New York, NY: Fall 2011.

Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 14, Beth Venn, juror, Open Press Studios, Boston, MA: Spring 2011. (Beth Venn, juror)

Creative Quarterly Magazine, CQ22 Online Gallery, 3x3 Publishing, New York, NY: March 2011.

2010"Kevin Bernstein: Pattern and Process," feature article by Matthew Clagg, Naked City Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 11, Green Tangerine Publishing, KS: 2010.

2007Kryger, August, "Visions from the Wild,"Courier-Times, Sedro-Woolley, WA: Vol. 115, Number 38 July 18, 2007, p. 1 & 4. (images)

Jaksich, Natasha, "Faculty Art on Display at UPS," Tacoma Weekly, Tacoma, WA: Mar 1, 2007, C4.

2005Engelson, Andrew, Seattle Weekly - "Henry Art Gallery Thesis Exhibition," exhibit announcement - selected as standout
by editor, Seattle, WA: Jun 8-14, 2005.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2008-PresentKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY - Manhattan, KS
Assistant Professor of Art (2D Foundations Coordinator & Graduate Faculty in Drawing and Painting) - August 2008 - Present
Acting Area Head Painting Spring Semester 2011

 

2008UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND - Tacoma, WA
Adjunct Faculty - spring semester - 2008
Beginning Printmaking/Art 282
Experimental Printmaking/Art 382

2007-2006Adjunct Faculty - fall semester
2D Foundations/Art 101

 

2005UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - Seattle, WA
Visiting Lecturer - summer term - 2005
Introduction to Drawing/Art 190

2004Instructor of Record - spring, summer, and fall terms - 2004
Introduction to Drawing/Art 190

2004Mentorship - winter term - 2004
Introduction to Drawing/Art 190

2003Mentorship - fall term - 2003
Introduction to Painting/Art 292

 

2003-2000BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL - Chestnut Hill, MA
Art Department Faculty Member - 2000 to 2003


2002RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Providence, RI
Department of Continuing Education Faculty Member - spring term - 2002


2000THE FULLER MUSEUM - Brockton, MA
Art Education Faculty - spring - 2000

STOPOVER SERVICES sponsored by the NEWPORT ART MUSEUM - Newport, RI
Drawing and Painting Teacher - 2000

 

VALLEY COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL - Pawtucket, RI
Visual Arts Teacher - 2000

 

2000-1999PROVIDENCE CITY ARTS FOR YOUTH - Providence, RI
Drawing and Printmaking Teacher - 1999 to 2000

 

2000-1999PROVIDENCE RENAISSANCE CENTERS PROGRAM - Providence, RI
Visual Arts Teacher - 1999 to 2000

 

1999-1998RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN - Division of Foundation Studies - Providence, RI
Teaching Assistant - 1998 to 1999

 

1999LANDFALL PRESS - Chicago, IL

Intern - winter - 1999