Kingsley Parker

I am very concerned about the environment. I have done solo exhibits on our Oceans (Oceans Apart), Over fishing (Living in Harm’s Way) Struggling forests (A World of Hurt), rampant land development at the expense of open land (Trouble in the Terroir) and Rising flood waters (Salt). I use a variety of media and materials. I enjoy reading and learning about issues and creating my visual responses to bring these issues forward, pertinent, and undeniable. I use humor often to blunt the topics and let viewers decide for themselves.

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Education:
Northfield Mount Hermon School, 1962-1966 Middlebury College, American Literature, BA, 1970 University of Hartford Art School, Sculpture, 1971-72
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Print Making, etching and lithography Hunter College, New York City, NY, Fine Arts, 1974-77, MA. 1977
(honored with an award for outstanding graduate work)
On-going courses to keep current in materials and techniques in areas of computer graphics, book binding, letterpress, ceramics, woodworking, and sculpture.

Solo Exhibitions:

2022 Lake George Projects, Lake George, NY, Living in Harms Way, (January 26-February 26)
2022 Albany International Airport, NY, Wood Works, (February-July)
2022 Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY, Trouble in the Terroir (July 16-August 16)
2020 Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, A World of Hurt, into the Dark, (December), brochure
2017 Walnut Hill Fine Art, Hudson, NY, UpRiver, my journey home, (August-September)
2016 Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, OceansApart, (January-March) catalog
2011 Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY, UpRiver installation, (Nov-December
2010 Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY., Diminishing Expectations, (September-October)
2005 Maurice Flecker Memorial Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY, (March-April)
1996 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY., Sculpture (April-May) catalog
1994 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY, Mapping (January) catalog
Etherington Fine Arts, Martha’s Vineyard, MA, A Survey of Sculptures and Prints, (May)
1993 Islip Museum, East Islip, NY, The Shipyard, installation (December-January)
1991 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY sculpture and the installation Train Robbers
1989 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY, paintings and the installation Itinerant Relics (March-April)
1987 Ellen Erpf Miller Fine Art, Waban, MA, Recent Prints and Paintings (March)
Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY, New Work, (September-October)
1985 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York,NY, Prints (October)
1984 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York,NY, Paintings and Prints, (January-February)
1983 Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Handmade Paper/Prints (February-March)
1980 J. Fields Gallery, New York, NY, Sofa Paintings (May-June)

Selective Group Exhibitions:

2023 Private Public Gallery, The Disaster Show, Hudson, NY,
2023 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Paintings from my A World of Hurt Series, Hudson, NY 2023 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. Museum, Trees (yet to be titled) November

2021 Albany Center Gallery, selections from the recent Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, (May-June)
I was one of three artists chosen to ‘exhibit in greater depth’
2020 ReInstitute, Millerton, NY, Together in Isolation (Covid 19), Over 70 artists made art inside sealed
uniform plastic vitrines that were then buried in the ground, with the transparent lid at ground level
aided with a small solar light to give visability to the art inside. The ‘exhibit’ was outside, viewed at night
for small gatherings of people. The art was scattered around a large barn and pond. The pieces glowed
in the darkness bringing a very somber, poignant moment to the collective responses to covid.
2020 Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region (Sept- Dec)
2019 Kentler International Drawing Space Benefit, Red Hook, NY. Invitation to participate (May)
ReInstitute, Millerton, NY, Threads, (June-July)
2019 Time and Space Limited, Hudson, NY., Protest Art, (September-October)
Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, 4 Artists’ Work on Paper, (October-November)
New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, Maps are Everywhere, (October-November)
Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY., Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, (October-November)
Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, en masse, (December-January)
2018 Albany International Airport, Albany, NY. Upon the ground, Below the Water, (March-September)
2017 Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY., en masse, (November-December)
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY. New Views (March)
Kentler International Drawing Space Benefit, Red Hook, NY. Invitation to participate (May)
2016 Kentler International Drawing Space Benefit, Red Hook, NY. Invitation to participate (May)
2015 Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, en masse, (November-December)
Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY. To Each Their Own, (July-August)
2013 Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY. (September- October)
2012 Lauren Clark Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA, Print Making Show, (October-November)
2010 Manhattan Graphics, Reunion for Scholarship Residents, (September-October)
2009 Bloomsbury Auctions, Manhattan Graphics Benefit Auction, (October-November)
Fashion Institute of Technology, Metal Transfigured, (November-December)
2008 Maude Kerns Art Center, Letterpress Broadsides, Eugene, OR, (January-February)
2007 A.G.A.S.T. Brooklyn, NY, Annual Gowanus Artist Studio Tour, (October)
2007 Ed Schmidt’s Dumbolio, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. (April)
2006 A.G.A.S.T. Brooklyn, NY, Annual Gowanus Artist Studio Tour, (October)
2005 International Print Center New York, NY, New Prints Autumn/2005, (November-December)
Exhibit travels to A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL., (January-February)
2005 Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ. Modern Stories: Narrative Prints from the Rutgers Archives for Print Making Studios
2005 Organization of Independent Artists, New York Law School, New York, NY. (March)
2005 India Show, 2 year traveling print exhibition throughout India
2004 Contemporary Australian and New York Prints
New York, National Arts Club, NY, NY (June)
Melbourne, Gallery 101, (December)
1998 artetindustrie, New York, NY, sculpture show (June-August)
1997 artetindustrie, New York, NY, installation Clearcut, (June-July)
Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ. Glass Weekend
Selected Fellows Exhibition (June-July)
1996 Blue River Gallery, Jackson, FL., Prints (March)
Artwalk, open studio auction for The Coalition for the Homeless, New York, NY., (May)
1995 Tendencias Contemoranes, Traveling print show, Mexico City, Mexico & Bogatá, Columbia