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 InstallationThe 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 ExhibitionMMOCA, 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 2006Pacific 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