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KEN D. LITTLE
ADDRESS: P.O. Box 830085 San Antonio, Texas 78283-0085 (210) 229-9994 Home/Studio (210) 458-4615 UTSA/Sculpture (T-Th)
EMAIL: kdlittle@sbcglobal.net WEBSITE: kenlittle.com BORN: Canyon, Texas, April 8, 1947 EDUCATION: 1972 M.F.A. – University of Utah, Salt Lake City 1970 B.F.A. Texas Tech University, Lubbock
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, ETC.: 2009 City of San Antonio, Office of Cultural Affairs Supplemental Artist’s Grant, for “It’s Not Nine One One” Artpace’s Window Works Exhibition 2006 XYZ2 International Artists Symposium and Residency, The Griffnerhaus, Griffner, Austria 2002 Virginia Groot Foundation National Award for Excellence in Sculpture 2nd Place 2001 Virginia Groot Foundation National Award for Excellence in Sculpture 2nd Place 2001 BorderArt/GrensKunst International Artist Residency, Germany, Poland, Chechoslovakia 1998 Artist/Industry Residency Grant, through the John M. Kohler Art Center at the Cast Iron Foundry of the Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisc. 1995-6 International Artist in Residence Fellowship, Art Pace, 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 1988 Artist/Industry Residency Grant, through the John M. Kohler Art Center at the Cast Iron Foundry of the Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin 1985 Sculpture Fellowship, Mid-America Art Alliance 1982-83 Individual Artist’s Fellowship (Major Award “Crafts Category”), National Endowment for the Arts 1977 Individual Craftsman’s Fellowship, Western States Arts Foundation
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS: 1986 “Mesa,” Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Art Commission, Art in Public Places Program, Seattle, Washington (Completed 1991) 2004 “Drill” a bronze commission for the City of Cheyenne Wyoming (completed July 2005) 2006 “Homeland Security” The GriffnerHaus; Griffner, Austria 2009 “Homeland Security” Austin Art in Public Places Program; The Texas Biennial, Austin, Texas 2010 “Homeland Security” Artpace and Public Art San Antonio, Hemisfair Park, San Antonio, Texas 2010 “Tooter” bronze sculpture, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming 2012 “Belting it Out” on the Boardwalk Trail around Lady Bird Johnson Lake: The Austin Art In Public Places Program; Austin, Texas
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 1987 (to present) Professor of Art, University of Texas at San Antonio, Tenured 1992; Graduate Adviser of Record and Chair MFA program 1990-2008 1986-88 Self-employed Sculptor/Artist with studio in Norman, Oklahoma 1985-86Self-employed Sculptor/Artist in New York City 1980-85Associate Professor of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Tenured 1983 1974-80Associate Professor of Art, University of Montana, Missoula, Tenured 1978; Chairman 1979-80 1972-74 Instructor of Art, University of South Florida, Tampa
MEMBERSHIPS, APPOINTMENTS: Founder/Owner of “Rrose Amarillo” Exhibition Space and “Blue Moon Studios” (an 11,000 sq. ft. facility) for artists in downtown San Antonio Board Member, Program Co-Chair, Contemporary Art for San Antonio, “The Blue Star Art Space,”1989-95 Founding Board Member, The UTSA Satellite Space, an exhibition space at the Blue Star Complex Public Art Commission, UTSA (Chair, University Center Public Art Project Committee) Board of Directors; Sculpture Network of Texas 2005-6 Board of Directors; Artpace 2010
PERMANENT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York City Henry Gallery, Seattle, Washington Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, Florida Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana Salt Lake Art Center, Utah Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City State of Oklahoma Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin State of Hawaii, Foundation on Culture & The Arts The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pa Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle King County Federal Building, Seattle The University of California at Davis, Nelson Gallery The Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico Microsoft Corporation, Seattle Washington McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas ArtPace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California at Davis The Blood & Tissue Center, San Antonio, Texas The Jack Blanton Museum of Art, Austin Texas The San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas The Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana Persis Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii Missoula Museum Of the Arts, Missoula, Montana Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, California Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 1972 Masters Thesis Exhibition, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah 1972 “Fairtree Gallery” Group Show, New York, NY One Man Show, University of South Florida, Tampa One Man Show, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida 1974 One Man Show, Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado “Clay Image,” National Ceramic Invitational, California State University at Los Angeles 1975 Purchase Award, “Ceramic Conjunction Juried Exhibition,” Brandt Library Art Center, Glendale, California* “Scripps Invitational Exhibition,” Lang Art Galleries, Claremont, California “Rising Stars,” Invitational Exhibition, Carborundum Museum, Niagara Falls, New York One Man Show, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
1976 “Art of Craft: The American View 1976,” Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal* “Concept: Clay,” National Invitational, Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant “Clay:The Medium and the Method,” Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara* ” Ceramic Conjunction,” Long Beach Museum of Art, California “Land,” Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin One Man Show, Art Galleries, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 1977 “Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture,” William Hayes Acklund Memorial Art Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina* “Ceramic Conjunction ’77,” Invitational Section, Long Beach Museum of Art, California* One Man Show, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho 1978 “Contemporary Crafts,” Traveling Exhibition of Western States Arts Foundation Fellowship Winners (2 yr. Tour) “Ken Little/Jack Earl,” Two Man Show, University of Akron, Ohio One Man Show, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff 1979 “Masterworks Exhibit,” N.C.E.C.A./Supermud Conference, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania “Caprock” 45 minute performance, N.C.E.C.A./Supermud Conference, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania “100 Years of American Ceramics,” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York* “Large-Scale Ceramic Sculpture,” Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis* “Clay Attitudes,” The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York* 1980 “New Clay Forms,” The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond One Man Show, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California “The Mask as Metaphor,” Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California* “Ken Little and Mary Warner,” Jennifer Paul’s Gallery, Roseville, California 1981 “Paint on Clay,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin* “Inside/Out: The Self Beyond Likeness,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California* “Animal Images,” Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.* “National Clay,” Invitational Exhibition, University of Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CN. “Contemporary Ceramics, From J. Mannheimer Collection,” The University of Iowa, Museum of Art, Iowa City* “Northern Rockies Clay 1981,” Touring to Hockaday Art Center, Kalispel, Montana Sun Valley Center Gallery, Idaho; Fine Arts Gallery, Bozeman Montana; Jackson Hole Center for the Wyoming, Wyoming State Art Gallery, Cheyenne JUROR’S CASH AWARD, “O.D.C. Tri-State Exhibition 1981,” Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma “Wind and Dust,” University of Houston’s Lawndale Annex, Texas “The Image of the House in Contemporary Art,” University of Houston Lawndale Annex, Texas* 1982 “Pets & Beasts,” Trans America Pyramid Building, San Francisco, California “Sculpture, Sacramento,” Alta Gallery, Sacramento, California “First Annual Wild West Show,” Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada JUROR CASH AWARD, “The Lawndale Competition,” Lawndale Annex Gallery, The University of Houston, Texas Group Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1983 “Winterworks,” Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma* Invitational Group Exhibition, Patrick Gallery, 4th Texas Sculpture Symposium, Austin, Texas One Man Show, Quay Gallery, San Francisco* Traveling to: Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Hawaii Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana Gallery of Art, University of Montana, Missoula Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary Alberta, Canada* 1983 “Clay in New Mexico ’83,” Invitational Section, Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque “Caprock Too!,” performance commissioned for Clay AZ Art conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (45 min.) also performed:Meacham Auditorium, University of Oklahoma, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada (Video tape is available 3/4 “color) One Man Show, “Ken Little: Shattered Portraits and Unlikely Heros,” John M. Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin* “The Raw Edge: Ceramics of the 80’s” Invitational Exhibition Hillwood Gallery, C.W. Post College, New York City* “Southern Fictions,” Invitational Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas* 1984 “Fleming, Mariscol, Warashina, Little” Invitational Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute Gallery, Missouri “The House That Art Built,” Invitational Exhibition, Gallery of Art California State University, Fullerton* One Man Show, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York City, New York One Man Show, San Antonio Art Institute, Texas “Painting and Sculpture Today 1984,” Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, Indiana “Ken Little, John Hadley,” Two-Person Show, Gallery Karl Oskar, Kansas City, Kansas One Man Show, Brown Lupton Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas One Man Show, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas 1985 “Space Invaders,” Invitational traveling exhibition through June 1986, originating at the Norm MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Canada* “Body and Soul: Recent Figurative Sculpture,” Invitational exhibition touring through June 1987; originating at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio* One Man Show, Fort Worth Gallery, Texas Best of Show (cash award), “Lenexa National Juried Art Exhibition”, Legler Barn Museum, Lenexa, Kansas “Texas Fantasies,” Invitational Exhibition, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas 13th Chunichi Shimbun International Ceramics Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan* 1986 One Man Show, “Ken Dawson Little: Selected Sculpture 1982 – 1985,” Traveling to Blanden Memorial Art Center, Fort Dodge, Iowa; Cheney Cowles Memorial Art Museum, Spokane, Washington “Voyages,” invitational exhibition, J.M. Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin “Couples: A Party of Two,” invitational exhibition, Chico State University Art Gallery, California “Ken Little – John Roloff,” two person show, Maryland Institute, College of Art Galleries Baltimore, Maryland One Man Show, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon 1987 One Man Show – Mabee Gerrer Museum, Shawnee, Oklahoma “Sculpture: Looking into Three Dimensions,” invitational exhibition, Anchorage Museum of Art, Alaska 1987 “The Eloquent Object,” touring through August 1989, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia* “Animals,” Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California 1988 “Lost and Found,” Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “Dog Show,” Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California “Sculptural Assemlage,” Cliff Michel Gallery, Seattle, Washington “Mary Warner – Ken Little,” Art Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas “Second Hand,” J. M. Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin* Juror’s Cash Award, “Dimensions ’88,” Lenexa National Art Exhibition Kansas 1989 One Man Show “Elements of Progress,” The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1989 “A Century of Sculpture in Texas, 1889-1989,” Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, traveling to the Amarillo Art Center and the San Antonio Museum of Art* “The Nature of the Beast,” The Hudson River Art Museum, Yonkers, New York “Five Texas Installations: Blackburn, Geffert, Little, Mims & Waters,” The Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas* One Man Show, “Elements of Progress: Dreams Escape,” Art Gallery, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 1990 One Man Show, Nelson Gallery of Art University of California at Davis One Man Show, Jennifer Pauls Gallery, Sacramento, California “Tell Tale Heart,” an installation of “Elements of Progress: Dreams Escape,” Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.* “The Politics of Cloth: Selections from the Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia”, The Craft Gallery, Ontario Crafts Council “Working With Harry,” Invitational group exhibition, Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas “Let’s Play House,” Group Exhibition, curated by Ruth Fine, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “1991 Invitational Exhibition,” Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico 1991 “Robert Pfannebecker Contemporary American Crafts Exhibition,” Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania 1992 One Man Show, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas “Blue Star VII” Exhibition curated by Betty Moody and Barry Whistler, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas 1993 “The Scenic Loop: Ken Little and Henry Stein,” A collaborative installation, The Art Gallery California State University at San Bernardino “Target South Texas: Depth of field” Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas 1994 “Beyond the Personal: Ken Little and Patti Warashina” Invitational exhibition, Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces One Man Show Dean Moniz Gallery, Sacramento, California “Texas Dialogues: Houston/San Antonio” curated by Caroline Huber, The Blue Star Art Space San Antonio, Texas 1995 “Made in San Antonio,” Invitational exhibition, Dowd Fine Arts Center, State University of New York at Cortland, New York “Soaring – the Rule of Engagement,” New Works 95.4 an exhibition of the International Artist inResidency Program, ArtPace, a foundation for contemporary art, San Antonio “Distinguished Fires: A Survey of Montana Ceramics,” Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana 1996 One Man Exhibition, “Rrose Amarillo: The San Antonio Works,” at Laramie County Community College Art Gallery, Cheyenne, Wyoming, November “Casts of Character,” National Invitational Exhibition works from the Arts Industry Program of the J.M. Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin One Man Exhibition, Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio “Obres Sobre Papel,” Instituto Peruano Norte Americano, Lima, Peru 1997 One Man Show, “Ken Little: Rrose Amarillo,” The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri Cecil Casebier Memorial Award” 67th Annual San Antonio Art League Juried Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas TRASHFORMATIONS:RecycledMaterials in Contemporary American Art andDesign,” Touring Through 2001 Invitational Exhibition organized by the Smithsonian; Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington; The Boise Museum of Art, Boise, Idaho; The Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama One Man Show “Ken Little: Native Son,” Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, Texas 1998 “OSO Bay Biennial X” invitational sculpture exhibition, held jointly at Corpus Art Museum and The Art Galleries at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi “Transformation” inaugural group invitational exhibition, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, Texas* One Man Exhibition “Adult Dilemmas” The Center for Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas 1999 One Man Exhibition “Ken Little: New Bronzes” The Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas “ART2KpaSA ?” a survey of San Antonio Artists, at the San Antonio International Airport 2000 “Houston Sculpture 2000” Central Texas Exhibition at the International Sculpture Conference Houston, Texas ‘The Really Big Shoe Show” The City Museum, St. Louis, Missouri “Selected Recent Acquisitions: in Memory of Price Amerson” Richard Nelson Gallery, Univ. Of California at Davis “Celebrating Texas Art” Houston Assistance League, Houston, Texas Jurors Prize “27th Annual Juried Competition” Mazur Museum of Art, Monroe, La. Jurors Prize “Texas National” juried exhibition, Stephen F. Austin University Art Gallery, Nachodoches, Texas 2001 “BorderArt/GrensKunst” group invitational exhibition, Galerie Klinger, Goerlitz, Germany “Guten Tag” group invitational exhibition, UTSA Satelitte Space, San Antonio “Hotel Pupik 01” group invitational exhibition, and musical performance, Schrattenberg, Austria One Man Exhibition “Singing on the Range”, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas 2002 “Ken Little, Chris Ramsey, Takeshi Takara” group invitational exhibition, Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, Indiana One Man Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, Colorado “3D Chicago Outdoor Sculpture Invitational Exhibition” curated by Dave Hickey, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois “Red Hot: Cast Iron in the 21st Century” national invitational group exhibition, The Grounds forSculpture at the Johnson Atilier, Mercerville, New Jersey “Visual Perspectives: 14 Years of the Virginia Groot Foundation Awards” Invitational at the 215 Superior Gallery and The SOFA Navy Pier International Art Exhibition, Chicago, Ill. “Up and Down: Ken Little and Jesse Amado” The Art Gallery of the University of Texas at San Antonio 2003 “Beyond the Academy: Encouraging New Talent in Texas” Invitational Exhibition at the Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas; traveling to The Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas; The Abraham Gallery, Wayland Baptist University, Plainview, Texas 25th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, The Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, Pa. One Man Retrospective Exhibition “Little Changes”; originating at The Southwest School of Art and Craft traveling to The Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 2004 One Man Retrospective Exhibition “Little Changes” traveling to: The Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana The Nicolaysen Museum, Casper, Wyoming The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska The Desmond Lee Art Gallery of the University of Washington, St. Louis, Missouri One Man Exhibition John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis California “Texas Uprising” invitational group exhibition, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas “Southern States Sculpture Exhibition” group invitational exhibition, The Center for Contemporary Art, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, La. 2005 One Man Show , “The Buck Stops Here” Untitled Art Space, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma One Man Show ,Stremmell Gallery, Reno, Nevada “Rock, Paper, Scissors” Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, Arlington Museum of Art, Tx. “Blue Star 20” curated group exhibition, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas 2006 “Homeland Security” sculpture commissioned by the Griffnerhaus, Griffen Austria, for the XYZ Artists residency and Symposium” 2006 “Oso Bay Biennial Invitational Sculpture Exhibition” The Art Galleries, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas One Man Show “Ken Little” Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas “Blurring Boundaries: Musicians Who Create and Artists Who Play” Group Invitational Exhibition Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa Texas “ART4ALL” Group Exhibition; Permanent Collection and Grand Opening of the Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana “Collectors X 3” curated group Exhibition, The Houston Art League, Houston, Texas “Around the Figure” Group Inivitational Exhibition, Ch’i Gallery, Brooklyn, New York “Sculpture Now” Curated Group Exhibition, The Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas “Beast” curated Group Exhibition, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, Texas “Bridge Art Fair: Miami ‘06” Ch’i Gallery, Miami, Florida “The Texas Sculpture Symposium,” Members Group Exhibition, Texas Tech University, Junction Campus, Junction, Texas 2007 One Man Show “Heavy Metal, Glow, Bucks, and Dough: New Work by Ken Little” Finesilver Gallery, Houston, Texas “Amistad: Texas Art in Peru” curated invitational group exhibition; The National Museum of Peru, Lima; and traveling to the Museum of Modern Art, Truillo, Peru “Yoko Ono Cut Piece” Performance; The Alla Canaria; UTSA Downtown Campus, San Antonio, Texas “Pulse London Art Fair” Finesilver Gallery booth, London, England “Camp Marfa” Curated Group Invitational Exhibition; Women’s Pavilion, Marfa, Texas “Ken Little: Artist of the Year” honoree and exhibition at the Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas “Arte Fiera” Art Fair, Finesilver Gallery booth, Bologna, Italy 2008 “Shell Games: the work of Ken Little” One Person Exhibition at the Dupree Art Center of Hope College, Holland Michigan “Texas Chair Project” Group Invitational Exhibition organized by Damion Priour and the Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas ( catalog published and traveling exhiobition) “OK, Two Artist’s meet in Texas…” Two person exhibition at Jay Jay Gallery, Sacramento California “Art Guys Hear No Evil Silver Jubilee Tribute Album and Variety Show” Discovery Green, Houston Texas (Group show and CD published) Second Prize “The 78th Annual Juried Art Exhibition” at the San Antonio Art League Juror: Toby Kamps, chief curator of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts “New Art/ Arte Nuevo” Juried Group Exhibition at the UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas catalog published “Grand Opening of the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center Permanent Art Collection” Group Exhibition, San Antonio Texas 2009 “Homeland Security” The Long Center; Austin Art in Public Places: The Texas Biennial “The Great Texas Sculpture Roundup” Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas; traveling to the Art Car Museum, Houston,Texas “New Art” Group Exhibition, Jay Jay Gallery; Sacramento, California “Simple America” CD release performance; Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas 2010 One Person Exhibition “It’s Not Nine One One” Artpace Window Works, San Antonio, Texas One Person Exhibition “Homeland Security” Hemisfair Park, San Antonio, Texas; sponsored by Artpace and Public Art San Antonio 2011 “Texas Uprising: Part 2” Group Exhibition, curated by Lily Wei, The Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas “Chico Monoprint Workshop Group Exhibition” James Snidle Fine Arts Gallery, Chico, California “Contempo Benefit Group Exhibition” The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii “Art on The Green” Outdoor Sculpture Invitational Group Exhibition, Grounds of the Kemp Center for the Visual Arts, Wichita Falls, Texas “Musicians Who Make Art” Group Invitational exhibition, The Art Car Museum, Houston, Texas 2011 “Home in San Antone: Artists in Academics, San Antonio” Group Invitational Exhibition, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas “Go West: Group Invitational Exhibition of French and American Artists” the UNESCO Center Paris, France “Lookout!” an outdoor group Exhibition curated by Dave Hickey, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois 2012 ” Worth 1000 Words: Ricky Armendariz, Ken Little, and Gary Sweeney” Red Arrow Contemporary Art Gallery; Dallas Texas ” Pledge” and installation in a public window on Houston Street sponsored by Public Art in San Antonio, Texas ” Victory and Defeat” public installation of sculpture at the University of Texas at Tyler “Go West: Group Invitational Exhibition of French and American Artists” Travis Towers, Houston, Texas SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS: 2001 BorderArt/GrensKunst; a catalog of an International exchange Residency/ Exhibition in Goerlitz Germany; artists Ken Little, Chuck Ramirez, and Roland Rodriguez A Creative Legacy: a History of the N.E.A. Visual Arts Fellowship Program; Jennifer Dowley and The National Endowment for the Arts 2002 “Visual Perspectives: 14 Years of the Virginia Groot Foundation Awards”; Exhibition catalog with essays by Margaret Carney and Candice Groot; published by the Groot Foundation, Chicago, Illinois 2002 “Outside Art” by Dan Goddard; for the Express News San Antonio, Texas; August 14, 2002; Section G, pages 1&10G (photo) Navy Pier Walk: The Chicago International Sculpture Exhibition; curator: Dave Hickey: catalog published by Navy Pier and 3-D Chicago; May 10-November 10, 2002 The Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art; by John Fitzgibbons, for the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; page 118-119 with photo; 2002 2003 Beyond the Academy: Encouraging New Talent from Texas; exhibition Catalog published by the Art House at the Jones Center, Austin Texas, 2003 Ken Little: Little Changes; a Survey Exhibition and New Works Catalog with essays by Dave Hickey and Kay Whitney; published by the Southwest School for Art and Craft, San Antonio, Texas; 2003; 64 pages; ISBN 0-9742914-0-4 Dreaming Red: Creating Artpace; by Linda Pace, Jan Jarboe Russell, Elenor Heartney, and Kathryn Kanjo; Published by Artpace, a Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, 2001 Photo page 253 New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum; by Marion Bolton Stroud; copublished by the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003; page 18&20 “Little Changes: Ken Little at the Southwest School for Art and Craft” Sculpture Magazine; July- August 2003; vol. 22 no. 6; page18 “Head to Head: Vincent Valdez and Ken Little” conversation excerpted by Laura Fries; The San Antonio Current; July 10-16, 2003; page12 “A Lot of Little” review by Dan Goddard for the Express News, San Antonio, Texas; August 3, 2003; section J, pages 1&3J “Origin of a Species” review by Anjali Gupta for the San Antonio Current Magazine; July 31- Aug. 6, 2003; page “Little Changes: Ken Little Retrospective” a review by Christopher French for Glass Tire: Texas Visual Arts on Line at glasstire.com; July 2003 “Little Goes a Long Way” a review by Mary Brown Malouf, The Salt Lake City Tribune; Oct. 26, 2003; section D, page 12 “Hollow Man” by Jenny Thomas, Salt Lake City Weekly, November 20, 2003, pg. 27 “Ken Little: Little Changes” San Antonio Review, by Anjali Gupta, Artlies Magazine; Fall 2003, pg. 72 2004 “The Surreal World/ Ken Little: Little Changes” review by Sherry Jones; The Missoulian, Jan.29, 2004: section E, page 18 with photos 2004 “Sculpture show full, even jarring” reviewby Dan Goddard, San Antonio Express News: Feb. 15, 2004, section J, page 1 and 3 “Texas Uprising: Indoor and Outdoor Sculpture” San Antonio Review by Retha Oliver for Artlies Magazine; Spring 2004, page 102 “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 2005 “As Good as Anywhere” by Elaine Wolff, for the San Antonio Current; April 28, 2005; pg. 18 “Sculptures That Surprise” by Janet Kutner, Dallas Morning News; Nov.8, 2005; sec. G, pg.1 “AMA’s Sculpture Could Use Some Elbow Room” by Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, Fort Worth Star Telegram; November 13, 2005 The Sculpture Reference Illustrated by Arthur Williams; Sculpture Books Publishing; 2005 Sculpturebooks.com; photograph pg. 216 “A Stellar Achievement” by Dan Goddard; San Antonio Express News; June 26, 2005; Sec J; pg.1-6 “A Raucous Reunion” by Dan Goddard; The San Antonio Express News; July 20, 2005; Sec. G; pg1-3 “Strange Plastics Unify Trio” by Dan Goddard The San Antonio Express News, July 11, 2005; Sec. C; pg1 “The Art Capades” by Catherine Walworth; San Antonio Current; July 7, 2005; pg 18 Voices of Art Magazine; Cover Photo; Volume 13; issue 2 2006 Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900; edited by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi and Kelly Baum; published by the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas Press; 2006; pages 176-77 (photograph/essay) “Tasty Tread: Downtown Stops” by Sean Carroll, Review of “Beast” Exhibition; Glasstire; Texas Visual Arts Online “Beast” Exhibition Review by Bill Davenport; Glasstire: Texas Visual Arts Online XYZ2, GriffnerHaus Symposium 06, catalog published by the Griffnerhaus, Griffen, Austria pg. 5,26-29 (photographs and text) 2007 “Footwear Make the Statement” by Patricia Johnson, The Houston Chronicle; Oct 27, 2007, Photo; pages 1-3 “Heavy Metal, Glow, Bucks, and Dough” The Houston Press; Nov 1-7; pg 41 Amistad: Texas Art in Peru; Exhibition Catalog; The Museo de la Nacion; photo pg. 25 Amistad: Texas Art in Peru; Exhibition Catalog; The Museo de Arte Moderno, Trujillo, Peru “The Big World of Ken Little” by Randy Lankford; Ovations Magazine; College of Liberal and Fine Arts, UTSA; winter 2007 “Ken Little, Houston” review by Christopher French; Dec 2007; pg 57-8 photos 2008 Art at Your Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists; edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson; Trinity University Press, San Antonio, Texas “Artists Ken Little and Kim Squaglia: One Student, One Teacher, One Exhibit at Jay Jay Gallery” D’ Art Section; Sacramento News and Review; cover photo, review “Shell Games: the work of Ken Little” One Person Exhibition at the Dupree Art Center of Hope College, Holland Michigan Chair: The Texas Chair Project by Damian Priour; Exhibition Catalog; text by Dana Fris-Hansen and Damian Priour The Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas “Art Snot” Art Guys Hear No Evil Silver Jubilee Tribute Album CD published New Art/ Arte Nuevo: A juried Competetion Group Exhibition Catalog; text by Benito Huerta and Kathy Vargas; published by the UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas 2009 “Austin: The Texas Biennial, Multiple Venues” review by Frances Colpitt, Art in America magazine “Ken Little: Docubloggers, life in central Texas” a PBS short documentary produced by Dominique Bellavia, KLRU, Austin, Texas http://www.klru.org/docubloggers/?p=877 2009 “2009 Texas Biennial Catalog” Austin Art in Public Places, Austin, Texas 2010 “Insecure at Home” by Elaine Wolff, The San Antonio Current; May 26-June 1, pg. 23 “No way into artist’s Homeland” by Steve Bennett, San Antonio Express News, July 4, 2010; pg. 3K Ken Little: a short documentary showing the artist casting a bronze sculpture; http://www.youtube.com/user/walleyfilms#p/a/u/0/1dzncg2AGfw
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