George Billis Gallery | Los Angeles & Connecticut
gallery@georgebillis.com
LA@georgebillis.com
  • Fairfield, CT Artists
    • Artists - Fairfield CT >
      • All Artists - Fairfield, CT
      • Realism
      • Abstract
      • Sculpture
    • Exhibitions - Fairfield, CT
    • Corporate Projects
    • Residential Projects
    • About
  • CT: Currently on View Fairfield
  • Los Angeles
    • Artists - Los Angeles
    • Exhibitions - Los Angeles
    • News
    • About / Contact
    • Residential Art Consulting
    • Corporate Art Consulting
    • LA Gallery Space Rental
  • LA: Currently on View
KENNY HARRIS
American, Born 1974, Palo Alto, CA                                                                                                                                                                                              
Solo Exhibitions

2020    Ireland, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY  
2018    Interior Worlds, Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA   
2016    Recent Paintings, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY          
2015    New Paintings, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
2014    Recent Paintings, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY          
2013    Kenny Harris & Judy Nimtz: Terra di Sienna—Paintings of Southern Tuscany,
            Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA          
2012    How We See: The Process of Observation to Realization (two Person show
            with Judy Nimtz), Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA 
2012    Tuscany, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2012    China, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
2011    Normandy, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY        
2010    Istanbul, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA        
2008    Tales from the Road, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2008    Recent Paintings, Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA        
2007    Buenos Aires & South America, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA        
2006    Images from the Old World, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY                   
2006    Transitional Light, Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA        
2005    La Habana, Cuba, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA     
2005    Sacred Light/Common Space, Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2004    Kenny Harris, Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2003    Terrence Rogers Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
 
2019    Perennial, Koplin Del Rio, Los Angeles, CA
2018    Gesture, Prographica/KDR Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018    The Cityscape Show VIII, George Billis LA, Culver City, CA               
2017    Liberty, Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA               
2017    Intuitive Realities II, Q Art Salon, Santa Ana, CA                     
2016    Identity-Method: Degrees of Separation, Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA                        
2015    Observing Observing (a white cup), Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA                       
2015    New to Seattle, Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013    In the City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2013    Wunderkammer, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA                   
2012    Still Life: The Painted Image, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts,
            Hagerstown, MD        
2012    Sublime, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA        
2012    City Streets, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY                              
2011    The Buildings of New York, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY                                
2010    En Plein Air, Kings Art Center, Hanford, CA               
2009    Memories of the LA Billboard, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA           
2009    Summer in the City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY                               
2006    Artists For the New Century, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT           
2005    In the City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY                                 
2004    California New Old Masters, curated by Donald Kuspit (catalogue), Gallery C,
            Hermosa Beach, CA  
2003    Urban Anatomy, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
 
 
Education

2015-2017       Laguna College of Art + Design, MFA in Painting
1992-1996       Colorado College, BA in Fine Art, Cum Laude
1998                Art Students League, New York, under Frank Mason
1994                Charles Cecil Studios, Florence, Italy

 
Residencies
 
2015                Borgo Finocchieto, Artist in Residence, Buonconvento, Italy
2013                Borgo Finocchieto, Artist in Residence, Buonconvento, Italy
2012                Monteverdi Tuscany, Artist in Residence, Castiglioncello del Trinoro, Italy
2012                Borgo Finocchieto, Artist in Residence, Buonconvento, Italy
2011                Borgo Finocchieto, Artist in Residence, Buonconvento, Italy
 
 
Teaching

2018 -              Assistant Professor of Paintng & Drawing, Laguna College of Art & Design
2006 – 18         Painting Instructor and MFA Mentor, Laguna College of Art & Design
                                   
 
Grants
 
2016                Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
2015-2017       Albert K. Murray Grants
 
 
Press

American Art Collector, Mar. 2020, “A Look Inside” by John O’Hern
American Art Collector, Feb. 2017, “Place and Time”
American Art Collector, Dec. 2014, “Trapped Light”
Milieu Magazine, Fall 2014, “A painter’s eye: An inside look” by Donna Wilkinson
Epoch Times, Oct. 7, 2014, “Kenny Harris: Cityscapes with Current Context”
            by Wim Van Aalst
Fine Art Connoisseur, July 2013, “The Interior Worlds of Kenny Harris” by David Masello
ArtWeek LA, Oct. 21, 2013, “Kenny Harris and Judy Nimtz: Terra di Sienna—Paintings from Southern Tuscany”
American Art Collector, Oct. 2012, “A Fresh and Honest Look” by Joshua Rose
American Art Collector, Jan. 2011, “Le Quesnoy”
Poets and Artists, Oct. 2010, “Portals and Spaces at the Gloaming” by Grady Harp
American Art Collector, Nov. 2008, “The Art of the Roadtrip”
Whitehot Magazine, March 2008, “Kenny Harris” by Shana Nys Dambrot
Artweek, March 2006, "Kenny Harris at Gallery C" by Shana Nys Dambrot
Southwest Art, Oct. 2005,  "Chasing the Light" by Bonnie Gangelhoff
Angeleno, May 2004, "Domestic Scene" by Bettie Goodwin
Southwest Art, Sept. 2003, "Emerging Artists Issue: 21 under 31"

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.