KenDixonart
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Education:  University of Arkansas MFA 1968;  Missouri State 1965-66
( post-graduate work 30 hours);  Drury College BA 1965

Travel:  England, France 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980; Spain, Italy, Greece, Crete 1970; Italy,
Sicily, Spain, Mallorca, Jamaica 1973; Netherlands, Belgium 1980; Hawaiian Islands 1996;
Spain, Mexico 2007

Awards:  National Endowment For the Arts Fellowship (Texas Award in Painting, Prints
& Drawing 1 of 6 artists awarded)1986;  Outstanding Emerging Artists Award, Galveston
Art Center, TX  1984

Selected Public Collections In Which My Work Appears:
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
U. S. Department of the Treasury, Kansas City, MO
Museum of Modern Art, Miami, FL
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Citicorp
San Angelo Museum of Art, TX
Public Art Collection, Texas Tech University
Museum of Texas Tech University
Wichita Falls Museum of Art, TX
Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Southwestern Bell Telephone, Fort Worth, TX
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Neuman Foundation, Case-Western University, Cleveland, OH
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY
Verizon  Corporation
Amarillo  Art Center, TX
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO
                                            
Selected Exhibitions:
New Acquisitions/40th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi TX  2013
One-Person Exhibition, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX  2013
Ken Dixon & Ryder Richards, Abilene Contemporary Art Center, TX  2012
One-Person Exhibition, “IBO Project”, Underwood Center, Lubbock, TX;  (preview of work
executed for the Idaho Bird Observatory in Boise, ID)  2010
Color Print USA Retrospective, Museum of Texas Tech, curator, Dr. Peter Briggs 2010 catalog
One-Person Exhibition, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX  2010
Group Exhibition, Robert Hughes Gallery, San Antonio, TX  2010
Wlm Campbell Contemporary Art @ Santa Fe International Art Expo, NM  2009
Anniversary Retrospective, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX  2009  catalog
One-Person Exhibition, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX  2008
Camp Marfa,  Invitational, Chinati Annual Foundation Conference, Marfa, TX 2007 catalog
Amistad, Curated Invitational Exhibition of Texas Art, National Museum of Art, Lima, Peru
September 2007;  traveled to the Museum of Modern Art, Trujillo, Peru 2007  catalog
Now & Then,  Invitational, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX  2007  catalog
Group Exhibition, Robert Hughes Gallery, San Antonio, TX  2007
One-Person Exhibition, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center,  Lubbock, TX  2007
"Sacred Landscapes:  Ken Dixon, Michael Collins, Jim Woodson, Museum of South Texas, Corpus
Christi, TX   2006  catalog
One-Person Exhibition, Collins Gallery, Houston, TX  2004                                       
25thAnniversary Exhibition, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX  2004
Group Exhibition,  Invitational, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX  2003  For the Birds, Invitational, Galveston Art Center, TX  2003 Group Exhibition, Davis Gallery, Austin, TX  2002 One-Person Exhibition, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX  2002 Made  in Texas, Invitational Group Exhibition, Art Center of Waco, TX  2001
Two-Person Exhibition,  Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, TX  2001
New American Paintings , Juried Exhibition in Print, No. 30, Wellesley, MA  October  2000
New Works, Davis Gallery, Austin, TX,  2000
Texas Invitational , Amarillo Art Center,  2000
One - Person Exhibition,  Department of Art, McMurray University, Abilene, TX  1999  
Recent Acquisitions, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX  1999
One-Person Exhibition, Museum of the Horse, Ruidoso, NM  1998
One-Person Exhibition, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX 1997
One-Person Exhibition, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Ft Worth, TX 1997
One-Person Exhibition, Installation, Order & Disorder --- Famous Horses of West Texas”, 
The Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX  1996
One-Person Exhibition, "Order and Disorder---the Puzzle Series," Lubbock Fine Arts Center,
TX, April 1994 (sponsored and organized by the LubbockArts Center with help from the Texas
Art Commission;  exhibition traveled to 3 sites:  Galveston Art Center, TX  1994;  Midland, TX  1994; 
and The Old Jail Art Center , Albany, TX  1995)  catalog
Texas Select, Invitational,  (15 Texas Printmakers) Wichita Falls Art Center, Wichita Falls,
1993  catalog
New Texas Art,  Invitational,  (20 artists) Curated by Jim Edwards, Curator, San Antonio
Museum of Art)  Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA,  October.  Exhibition also
traveled to Boise, ID, Museum of Art,  January 1993  catalog
Four-Person Invitational,  Installations of four Texas, New Mexico Artists,  Curated by
Connie Gibbons, Director, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, TX  1992  catalog
Printmaking In Texas,  (40 artists) Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX  Curated by James
Fisher, Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX  (from permanent collection of the Fort
Worth Museum of Modern Art)  1992  catalog
"Great Enigmas and Personal Myths," Invitational,  Curated by Willard Brown and Helen
Kwaitkowski,  Cultural Arts Center, Temple, TX  1992  catalog
Group Exhibition,  Campbell Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX  1991
Group Exhibition,  Patrick Gallery, Austin, TX  1991
Group Exhibition,  Locus Gallery, San Antonio, TX  1991
Forty Texas Printmakers, Invitational,  Curated by E.A. Carmean, Marla Price, James
Fisher, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX   November 1990  catalog
One-Person Exhibition,  Department of Art, U of Kentucky, Lexington, KY  1990
Two-Person Exhibition with Emily Jennings,  Center For Research in Contemporary Art,
The University of Texas, Arlington,  1990
Ninth Anniversary Exhibition,  Patrick Gallery, Austin, TX  1990
"The Artist's Eye." Invitational,  Kimball Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX
 (An exhibition of my recent work as topic for discussion in a public forum,  1990)
"Painted Stories,"  Invitational,  (15 Texas Artists Selected)  Laguna Gloria Art Museum,
Austin, TX,   1990
One-Person Exhibition,  Locus Gallery, San Antonio, TX   1990
"Another Reality," National -All-Media, Hooks Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
(This exhibition traveled to:  The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, October 1989, 
and the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX)   1989  catalog
"Forrest Avenue Farewell,"  National Invitational Exhibition,  Curated by Dan Talley,
Director, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA  1989  catalog
One-Person Exhibition,  Lockhaven State University, Lockhaven, PA  1989
Group Exhibition,  "Rattlesnake Canyon,"  International Rock Art Symposium,  Witte
Museum, San Antonio, TX   Curated by the Witte Museum  April  1989
New Acquisitions,  San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX   1989
Greater Mid-West International,  Warrensburg, MO  Juried by  Richard Koshalek,
Director, Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA  1989  catalog
One-Person Exhibition,  Park College, Kansas City, MO  1988
Group Invitational,  Curated by Jerry Schfcek, Director, Amarillo Art Center, TX  1988
Comment,  National Invitational, Curated by Dan Talley, Director, Nexus Contemporary
Art Center, Atlanta, GA  1988  catalog
Four-Person National Invitational, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Curated by Stuart Downs, Gallery Director, James Madison,  1988
One-Person Exhibition, Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, TX  1987
Line and Form-"Contemporary Texas Figurative Drawing," Invitational,  Curated by Lynn
Nelson-Mayson, Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX   1987
Montana Centennial Exhibition, Invitational,  Curated by Laurie Rufe, Curator, Musuem of
Art, Roswell, NM  Custer County Museum, Miles City, MT   1987
International Invitational, Maastrict, Holland,  Curated by Richard Monson,  Central
Missouri State, Warrensburg, MO  1987  catalog
Miami International Print Biennial Revisited, Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gables, FLA
(Award winning works 1973-1986 in the permanent collection of the Miami Museum of
Modern Art)   1987  catalog
Greater Midwest International,  Juried by Anne Healy, Artist, Los Angeles, CA, Central
Mo St, Warrensburg, MO  1987  catalog
One-Person Exhibition,  Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX,  1987
One-Person Exhibition,  San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX  1986
One-Person Exhibition.  Batz-Lawrence Gallery, Kansas City, MO.  May 1986
One-Person Exhibition,  Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX  1986
Tenth National Invitational Drawing Exhibition,  Curated by William Shannon, Director,
Eppink Gallery, Emporia State University, KS  1986
Texas Visions,  Art League of Houston, Transco Towers, Houston  1985
Texas Currents,  Texas Invitational, (sixteen artists)  Curated by Howard Smagula, Dean
San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX  1985  catalog
"Mythmakers and Storytellers,"  Group Invitational, Patrick Gallery, Austin, TX   1985
Group Exhibition,  Batz-Lawrence Gallery, Kansas City, MO  1985
Two-Person Exhibition  (Ken Dixon, Ken Hale)  Curated by
James Edwards, Director,  The Nave Museum, Victoria, TX  1985
Two-Person Exhibition  (Ken Dixon, Jack Boynton)  Gallery One, Fort Worth, TX  1985
"Word Images,"  Invitational Exhibition, Curated by Howard Smagula, Dean, San Antonio
Art Institute, San Antonio, TX  1984  catalog
"Scenarios."  Three-Person Show at the Patrick Gallery, Austin, TX  1984
"Works on Paper,"  Five-Person Invitational,  Curated by Patrick McCracken, Director,
Waco Art Center, Waco,TX   1984
"Urban Narratives," Exhibition Series for Outstanding Emerging Artists, (twenty-two artists
selected)  Galveston Arts Center, Juried by Nancy Drysdale, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery,
Houston;  Jim Edwards, Curator, Museum of South Texas;  James Weaver, Director,
Tyler, TX., Museum of Art;  Marvin Watson, Watson/de Nagy Gallery, 1984  catalog
Texas Fine Art Association National,  Curated by Henry Hopkins, Director, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art,  Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX   (Work selected
by Juror Hopkins to tour with this exhibition in the 1984-85 season)  catalog
Rutgers National "Works on Paper," Camden, NJ,  Juried by Nancy Graves, Artist, New
York; Barbara Haskell, Curator, Whitney Museum of Art, New York  1984  catalog
26thAnnual Delta 8-State,  The Arkansas Art Center,  Curated by Henry Hopkins,
Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  1983  catalog
16thAnnual Print, Drawing, Craft 8-State, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK,  Juried
by Michael Heller, Heller Gallery, New York   1983  catalog
"New Figurative Drawing In Texas,"  Invitational,  Curated by George Parrino, Dean, San
Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX  1983
The Lawndale Competition  University of Houston, TX,  Juried by Ron Gleason, Director,
Arco Art Center, Dallas   1982  catalog
"Texas Only."  Dougherty Fine Arts Center, Austin, TX  Juried by Sue Graze, Curator,
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts   1982
10th Annual National,  "Works On Paper,"  Charlottesville, VA,  Juried by David Tannous
New York Art Critic,  1982  catalog
North Dakota Print & Drawing Annual National,  Grand Forks, ND,  Juried by Ophelia
Garcia, Director, Print Club of Philadelphia  1982  catalog
New Photographics 1982  National Invitational,  Ellensburg, WA  1982  catalog
Alternatives '82,  National,  Seigfred Gallery, Ohio University,  Juried by Duane Michals,
California Artist   1982  catalog
(toured To: University of Pittsburg, March; YoungstownState, April; Ohio State.  May;
University of Michigan,  September)
11th National Print & Drawing,  Minot State, ND,  Juried by H.T. Day, Curator, Joslyn
Museum Art, Omaha  1982  catalog
27th Annual Drawing, Sculpture National  Ball State University, IN  Juried by Addison
Page, Director, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY  1981  catalog
21st National Painting Exhibition,  El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX,  Juried by Charles
Elderedge, Director Spencer Museum, Lawrence, KS  1981  catalog
One-Person Exhibition.  Museum of Art, U of Oklahoma, Norman, OK  1980
"Works On Paper,"  Group Exhibition U of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB  1980
XII W & J National Painting Competition,  Washington and Jefferson College, PA,  Juried
by Paul Branch, New York Artist  1980  catalog

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