KENNETH WILKES
Lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Berlin Rememory, Gallery Japonesque, San Francisco, CA
2008 Desert/Installation, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
2006 Night Desert Photography, Bazar Cafe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Cushendall Tower Installation, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2002 Desert/Installation, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1998 Death and Dying in America, Taipei Photo Gallery International, Taiwan
1984 American Perspectives, Taipei Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan
1984 Art in Space/Installation, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1983 Night Desert Photography, ASUC STUDIO, University of California, Berkeley
1981 The Richard Avedon Portfolio Critique Award/Exhibition
The Berkeley Art Museum
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 FINDING COMMON GROUND: Sowing the Seeds of Community & Collaboration
2021 An Exhibition at San Francisco Center for the Book
2019 THE SUPER DUPERS, Buzz Factory, YUKI-SIS Gallery
Tokyo, Japan
2018 MUSUBU, Book Art: Tokyo-California
The American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco, CA
2018 Book Arts Lecture and Exhibition
San Francisco Public LIbrary, San Francisco, CA
2018 The Moving Image and Sound Play
Video and Artist Books, San Francisco Public LIbrary, SF, CA
2017 MUSUBU, Book Art: Tokyo-California
Urawa Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Book Art as Mural: Marin MOCA, California
2015 Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age
The Language of War Installation, ROOT DIVISION, San Francisco, CA
2014 The Homunculus Book, BookWorks 2014, Pacific Center for the Book Arts
San Francisco Skylight Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Resonant Imaging Installation, The Future Imagined: What's Next?
Zero 1 Biennial, PAI, San Francisco, CA
2012 Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance, A Thought Moment/Installation
SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA
2012 Left to Chance:The Accidental Book, Sumi Ink on Sandpaper Books
San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2011 Water Music/Installation, H20: A Survey of Works About Water
Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2009 Book Arts: Inspired by the Masters, Marin MOCA, CA
2009 [After}Life: A Visual Aide Exhibition, Online
2008 Discarded Polaroid Negative Book Series/Murals
Blow-Up, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 It's Photography II, National Juried Exhibition, MMOCA, CA
2006 Night Desert Photography, ArtOberfest Installation,
Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Mural Book Installation, Artfully RELCLAIMED, MMOCA, CA
2006 PHOTOBOOKSNOW, San Francisco Center for the Book, CA
2006 The Polaroid Negative, BookWorks 2006, Pacific Center for the Book Arts
San Francisco Skylight Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Purgatorio, Unfolded: The Accordion Wall Book
The Drawing Works Press, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Cushendall Tower Installation, In You We Trust
Artist-In-Residency, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2000 Anatomical Photographs, Revealing Bodies
The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
1996 Life's Final Passage/Installation, Belmont Passages
Montreux, Switzerland
1994 Bodies and Souls: An Installation
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1994 Night Landscape Photography
Sunrise Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Self Portrait 1993, Center For The Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
1989 The Accordion Wall Book, 3 Visions: A Photographic Installation
Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA
1988 Bloodline: Portraits of Plasma Donors, PHOTOACTIVE
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Self-Portraits, Ohlone College Art Gallery, Freemont, CA
1985 PHOTO/FLOW International Exhibition
University of Texas Art Museum, Arlington, TX
1983 Anatomical Series, 20 x 20 Photography Collective, SF, CA
1982 The Dorothea Lange Fellowship Award/Exhibition
University of California, Berkeley, CA
1981 ZETETIC: Searching for Surrealism
Somersault Studios, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Representation
YUKI-SIS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Japonesque, San Francisco, CA
Lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Berlin Rememory, Gallery Japonesque, San Francisco, CA
2008 Desert/Installation, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
2006 Night Desert Photography, Bazar Cafe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Cushendall Tower Installation, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2002 Desert/Installation, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1998 Death and Dying in America, Taipei Photo Gallery International, Taiwan
1984 American Perspectives, Taipei Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan
1984 Art in Space/Installation, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1983 Night Desert Photography, ASUC STUDIO, University of California, Berkeley
1981 The Richard Avedon Portfolio Critique Award/Exhibition
The Berkeley Art Museum
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 FINDING COMMON GROUND: Sowing the Seeds of Community & Collaboration
2021 An Exhibition at San Francisco Center for the Book
2019 THE SUPER DUPERS, Buzz Factory, YUKI-SIS Gallery
Tokyo, Japan
2018 MUSUBU, Book Art: Tokyo-California
The American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco, CA
2018 Book Arts Lecture and Exhibition
San Francisco Public LIbrary, San Francisco, CA
2018 The Moving Image and Sound Play
Video and Artist Books, San Francisco Public LIbrary, SF, CA
2017 MUSUBU, Book Art: Tokyo-California
Urawa Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Book Art as Mural: Marin MOCA, California
2015 Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age
The Language of War Installation, ROOT DIVISION, San Francisco, CA
2014 The Homunculus Book, BookWorks 2014, Pacific Center for the Book Arts
San Francisco Skylight Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Resonant Imaging Installation, The Future Imagined: What's Next?
Zero 1 Biennial, PAI, San Francisco, CA
2012 Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance, A Thought Moment/Installation
SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA
2012 Left to Chance:The Accidental Book, Sumi Ink on Sandpaper Books
San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2011 Water Music/Installation, H20: A Survey of Works About Water
Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2009 Book Arts: Inspired by the Masters, Marin MOCA, CA
2009 [After}Life: A Visual Aide Exhibition, Online
2008 Discarded Polaroid Negative Book Series/Murals
Blow-Up, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 It's Photography II, National Juried Exhibition, MMOCA, CA
2006 Night Desert Photography, ArtOberfest Installation,
Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Mural Book Installation, Artfully RELCLAIMED, MMOCA, CA
2006 PHOTOBOOKSNOW, San Francisco Center for the Book, CA
2006 The Polaroid Negative, BookWorks 2006, Pacific Center for the Book Arts
San Francisco Skylight Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Purgatorio, Unfolded: The Accordion Wall Book
The Drawing Works Press, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Cushendall Tower Installation, In You We Trust
Artist-In-Residency, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2000 Anatomical Photographs, Revealing Bodies
The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
1996 Life's Final Passage/Installation, Belmont Passages
Montreux, Switzerland
1994 Bodies and Souls: An Installation
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1994 Night Landscape Photography
Sunrise Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Self Portrait 1993, Center For The Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
1989 The Accordion Wall Book, 3 Visions: A Photographic Installation
Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA
1988 Bloodline: Portraits of Plasma Donors, PHOTOACTIVE
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Self-Portraits, Ohlone College Art Gallery, Freemont, CA
1985 PHOTO/FLOW International Exhibition
University of Texas Art Museum, Arlington, TX
1983 Anatomical Series, 20 x 20 Photography Collective, SF, CA
1982 The Dorothea Lange Fellowship Award/Exhibition
University of California, Berkeley, CA
1981 ZETETIC: Searching for Surrealism
Somersault Studios, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Representation
YUKI-SIS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Japonesque, San Francisco, CA
