About - Ken Kalman

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.

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

Teaching Experience

Basic Drawing, Advanced Drawing and Gallery Management
1999-2006, Modesto Junior College

Artists in Literacy Program, Sculpture Instructor
1998 (summer semester), City of Oakland

Beginning Sculpture 1, Structure and Concept
Teaching Assistant for John Roloff
1998 (spring semester), San Francisco Art Institute

Beginning Sculpture 1, Structure and Concept
Teaching assistant for John Roloff
1997 (fall semester), San Francisco Art Institute

Two Basic Drawing classes
1996 (spring semester), Modesto Junior College

Basic Drawing and Gallery Management
1993 (fall semester), Modesto Junior CollegeBorn
1955, Detroit, Michigan

Awards

Award of Merit
Sanchez Art Center, Left Coast Annual, Pacifica, CA 2023

Purchase Award, City of Emeryville, (Emeryville Celebration for the Arts), Emeryville, CA. 2022

Award of Merit
California Works, Sacramento, California 1992

Honorable Mention
5th Annual All Sculpture Exhibit
Golden State Sculptor’s Association, Agoura, CA 1991

Honorable Mention
4th Annual All Sculpture Exhibit
Golden State Sculptor’s Association, Agoura, CA 1990

2nd Place, 3D Show
Teaching Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1981

Catalogues, Television, & 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 KalmanChicago 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