Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
M.F.A. - Painting (Karl Benjamin Painting Fellowship)
1986
San Francisco State University, California
M.A. - Painting
1982
Midland College, Fremont, Nebraska
B.A. - Fine Arts
1982
Arizona State University, Tempe
1981
University of Colorado, Boulder
Teaching Experience
2012
Guest lecturer, Otis
College of Art and Design
2011
Guest Lecturer,
Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, California
2008
Visiting Professor, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (Undergraduate and Post-Graduate students), Shenyang, China
Guest Lecturer, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
Guest Lecturer, Fudan University - Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Shanghai, China
Guest Lecturer, Petterson Museum of Intercultural Arts, Claremont, California
2007
Guest Lecturer, The Attached Secondary Art School of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
(650 students), Shenyang, China
Visiting Artist, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (Undergraduate and Post-Graduate students), Shenyang, China
Guest Lecturer, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, China
2006
Visiting Artist, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (Post-Graduate students), Shenyang, China
2005
Guest Lecturer, Phoenix Art Organization, Long Beach, California /
Art Professor, Italian Study Abroad Program (Ferrara, Italy), Mt. San Antonio College /
Guest Lecturer, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport
2002
Guest Lecturer, Art Forum, Santa Ana College, California
2000
Guest Lecturer, Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, California
1998-present
Professor of Art, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California
(Chair 2002- 2006 / Co-Chair 2000-2001)
1997-1998
Adjunct Professor, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California
1996-1998
Adjunct Professor, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California
1996
Guest Lecturer, University of Akron, Ohio
1991
Visiting Artist, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Visiting Artist, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln
1985
Instructor, A.S.U.C. Studio, University of California, Berkeley
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2013
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asia,
Lucie Foundation, MOPLA, Los Angeles
2011
Kirk Pedersen: Urban
Asian Series,
Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Kirk Pedersen:
Urban Art, Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, California
2009
Kirk Pedersen: Urban
Paintings and Photographs,
Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Do Not
Enter,
Cal Poly Pomona Downtown Center, Pomona, California
Kirk
Pedersen: Urban Asia,
Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
2008
Kirk
Pedersen: Urban Paintings and Photographs:
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Art
Gallery at
Luxun Academy of Fine Arts,
Shenyang, China
Ucity Art
Museum, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
Kirk
Pedersen, Art of the City, GeFeng Contemporary Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Japan
Juxtaposed - Modern Images: Photographs by Kirk Pedersen
(Tokyo Images), The Gallery at
Penn College,
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Urban Asia Photographs,
Petterson Museum of Intercultural Arts, Claremont, California
2006
Eine Ausstellung IM Deutsch-Amerikanischen Zentrum -
James-F.-Byrnes-Institute E.V., Stuttgart, Germany / Urban Landscapes, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA / Urbanscapes, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
2005
Urban, Pennsylvania
College of Technology, Williamsport / Italia:
Paintings of Urban Italy, The Asylum Gallery, Pomona, California
2000
Convergence, Atrium Gallery,
St. Louis / Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, California / Haydon
Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
1998
The Urban Series, Atrium Gallery,
St. Louis / Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
1997
The Urban Series, Riverside Art Museum,
California
1996
New Work: From
Darkness To Light, David Jacobs Fine Art, Santa Monica / Recent Paintings, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis / In Collaboration,
Akron, Ohio
1995
Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica / Haydon Gallery,
Lincoln, Nebraska
1994
Contemporary Urban
Still Life, In Collaboration, Santa Monica / Urban Series: 1989-1994, Harris Gallery, Houston / Napa Valley
College, Napa, California
1993
Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco / Universal
Studios, Burbank, California
1992
Desert Ruins/Road
Relics, Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin / Ventura
College, Ventura, California / Shaklee Corporation, San Francisco
1991
Desert Ruins/Road
Relics, University of California, Riverside / Road Relics and Urban Fountains, Harris Gallery, Houston /
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
1990
Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland / Francine Ellman Gallery, Los
Angeles
1989
The Urban Series, Mitchell Museum,
Mount Vernon, Illinois / Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria,
Illinois / Infrastructure,
Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Pasadena, California / Neville-Sargent Gallery, Chicago
1988
Harris Gallery, Houston / City Gallery, Sacramento
(two-person)
Stanford University, California / Harris Gallery, Houston
1985
Imprimatur Gallery, Minneapolis
1984
Hoover Gallery, San Francisco
1983
Beuret Gallery, Honolulu
1982
Leslie Levy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
U.S.
Embassy Bangkok ‘180 Years of Friendship’ Photography Exhibition,
CentralWorld, Bangkok, Thailand / Central Airport Plaza, Chiang Mai, Thailand
/ Arts and Cultural Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok /
CentralPlaza, Suratthani, Thailand
2012
Abstract
Expressionism,
Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, California
2011
Art Chicago,
Atrium Gallery, Chicago
2010
Art Chicago,
Atrium Gallery, Chicago
Four Current
Perspectives, Renmin University, Beijing
2009
ArtChicago,
Atrium Gallery, Chicago
Renmin
University, Beijing, China
2008
Abstraction,
Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2007
Kunst 07 Zurich 13th
International Art Fair,
Walter Bischoff Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Tromp L'Oeil: The Art of
Illusion, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
Art Auction 12, Long
Beach Museum of Art, California
2006
Los Angeles City College (three-person) / Paper, Paper, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis / Selections, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
2005
California
Landscape, Long Beach Museum of Art / California Visions: Art Auction XI, Long Beach Museum of Art / Relative Truths, Orange County Center
for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California (three-person) / Philharmonic
House of Design, Lemon Heights (Orange County), California / With Spirit, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
2004
CITIRAMA, St. Louis
2003
Postcard
Exhibition, Los Angeles City College
2002
Community College
Invitational Mentor and Mente Art Exhibition, California State
University, Los Angeles / Scale it,
Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
2001
Painting and Sculpture
Exhibition, California State University, Los Angeles / Double Overhead, Don O'Melveny
Gallery, West Hollywood / Sequence Two,
Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California
2000
L.A.bstractionists, INMO Gallery, Los
Angeles (Curated by Peter Frank) / Dreamhouse, Miller Durazo Contemporary
Artists Projects, Los Angeles / Recycled
Paper Three, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
1999
Selections from
the Sweeney Collection, University of California, Riverside / Recycled Paper Two, Atrium Gallery,
St. Louis
1998
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
1997
Abstraction, Atrium Gallery,
St. Louis, Missouri / RoundRobin,
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
1996
Watermarks:
Contemporary Watercolors, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, KS / Watermarks, Mt. San Antonio College,
Walnut, CA
1995
New Talent, Allan Stone
Gallery, New York / Watercolors:
Connoisseurship, Technique and Exploration, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of
Art, St. Joseph, Missouri
1994
City Art, Millard Sheets
Gallery, Pomona, California / Works on
Paper, Longview Art Museum, Longview, Texas
1993
State of the Art
1993,
The New England Fine Art Institute, Boston / Recent Acquisitions, University Art Museum, University of California,
Santa Barbara
1992
One Square Foot, Gensler and
Associates, Santa Monica / Four
Watercolorists, Mondavi Center, Costa Mesa, California
1990
Allan Stone Gallery, New York / 54th Annual National Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of
American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1987
Three Abstract
Painters, Nimbus Gallery, Dallas /
First Prints Biennial Expo Campinas 1987, Sao Paulo, Brazil / Contemporary American Watercolors from the
Collection of the Springfield Art Museum, University of Missouri,
Columbia / Watercolor Now,
Springfield Art Museum, Missouri / Landscapes
Near and Far, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney
1986
The Monumental
Image,
Springfield Art Museum, Missouri / Watercolors,
Cedar Rapids Art Museum, Iowa / Driven
to Abstraction, Moss/Chumley Gallery, Dallas / 12th International Print Exhibition, Kanagawa Perfectural
Gallery, Yokohama, Japan / Gallery
Artists, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1985
Five Views, San Francisco
State University / 11th International
Print Exhibition, Kanagawa Perfectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan / Bay Arts 1985 Current Directions in the
Visual Arts, Arts Council of San Mateo, Belmont, California
1984
All
California 1984, Lauguna Beach Museum of Art, California / Fish: An Exhibition, Hockaday Center
for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana / Aqueous
1984, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington
Selected Bibliography
One-Person Exhibition Catalogues / Books:
Brouws,
Jeff.
"The Realization of a
Possibility: The Urban Asia Photographs of Kirk Pedersen." Urban
Asia.
ZERO+ Publishing, Inc., 2009. (hardcover book: 160 pages / 83 color images)
Chattopadhyay, Collette.
"Kirk Pedersen: Images of
Transience and Change." Kirk Pedersen: Urban Paintings and
Photographs." Shenyang, China: Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, 2008.
(48 pages / 30 color
reproductions)
_____.
"Kirk Pedersen: Images of Transience and Change." Kirk Pedersen: Urban Paintings
and
Photographs.
Beijing, China: Today Art Museum / Shenyang: Luxun Academy of Fine Arts / Guangzhou:
Ucity Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts / Shanghai: Shanghai
Duolun Museum of Modern Art, 2008. (84 pages / 55 color images)
Doe, Donald Bartlett.
"Memories of 10th Street: The Recent
Paintings of Kirk Pedersen." Kirk
Pedersen: The Urban Series. Mt Vernon, Illinois: Mitchell Museum /
Peoria, Illinois: Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1989.
(32 pages / 16 color reproductions)
_____.
"The Process of Landscape: The
Paintings of Kirk Pedersen." Kirk
Pedersen. Dallas: Moss/Chumley Gallery, 1987.
(12 pages / 3 color repro. / 3 B&W repro.)
Frank, Peter.
"Citiness: Kirk Pedersen's Veristic
Abstractions" Kirk Pedersen: Urban
Landscapes, Walnut, California: Mt. San Antonio College, 2006.
(56 pages / 43 color repro.)
_____.
"Kirk Pedersen: An Abstraction So
Real." The Urban Series.
Riverside, California: Riverside Art Museum, 1997.
(20 pages / 9 color repro.)
Pagel,
David.
"Just Passing By, Intimately
and Unforgettably." (See Brouws for complete information)
Reed, Jim.
"Night as a Metaphor." Kirk Pedersen: From Darkness to Light.
Santa Monica: David Jacobs Fine Art. 1996. (16 pages
/ 9 color repro.)
Shao, Da Zhen.
Significant Cultural
Meaning from Ordinary Images.Insert for Kirk Pedersen: Urban Paintings
and
Photographs.
Beijing: Today Art Museum, 2008.
Warren, Katherine.
"Kirk Pedesen: Desert Ruins/Road
Relics." Kirk Pedersen: Desert
Ruins/Road Relics. Manitowoc, Wisconsin: Rahr-West Art Museum /
Riverside, California: University of California, 1991. (36 pages / 20 color repro.)
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asia Photos. Diamond Bar, California, 2007. (36 pages / 33 color reproductions)
"CARTWHEEL Interview with Kirk Pedersen of ZERO+ Publishing." CARTWHEEL,
(Los Angeles), January 16, 2013.
(18 color repro.)
2012
Junker, Eric.
"Kirk
Pedersen: No Map Required." Fabrik (photography issue), Issue 16,
(Los Angeles), 88 - 91.
(4 color repro.)
Reevo, Jay.
"Urban
Asia & Tradeoffs - Kirk Pedersen." Ektopia.co.uk, Suffolk,
England. (7 color
repro.)
2010
"Kirk Pedersen: City Impression
- Beijing." Designdb.com, (Seoul,
Korea). (16 color
repro.)
2009
Brouws,Jeff;
Pagel, David;
Chattopadhyay, Collette.
City
Impression: Kirk Pedersen Urban Painting and Photograph Exhibitions in China.
Finance: Oriental Art. (Beijing, China), January 2009, 22-25. (5 color
repro.)
Liu, Vivian.
Art
and Design Magazine
(Beijing, China), March 2009.
Lieber,
Katherine R.
Art
Chicago 2009 Review, Artscope.net, May 1 (one color image).
Sieloff, Alison.
"Oh, the Urbanity."
Riverfront Times (St. Louis), September 10-16, Volume 33, Number 37,
20-21. (repro)
Yang, Nan.
City Impressions by Kirk
Pedersen in Beijing.www.china.com.cn (Beijing, China), January 16,
2009. (3 color images)
Yang, Shen.
City
Impression: American Artist Kirk Pedersen Painting and Photography Show Opens
in Beijing.Vision Union
(Beijing, China), January 10, 2009. (5 color images)
Zhong, Hui Min.
American Artist Kirk
Pedersen China Exhibition in Beijing.www.cnci.gov.cn (Beijing,
China), January 16, 2009. (color image)
Zhu, Xiao Jun.
Kirk Pedersen: City
Impressions.
China Culture Daily
(Beijing), January 11, 2009, 2. (repro.)
Television Interview.
(Beijing, China), January
11, 2009.
_____.
Urban
Impression Solo Exhibition of Kirk Pedersen.Today Art Museum Newsletter
(Beijing, China), January March 2009, 6-7. (color repro.)
2008
Alexander, Amanda.
At the
Galleries, SunGazette.com, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, July 24.
Chen, Meng Zhe.
See
the City Through His Eyes.Shanghai Weekly (Shanghai, China), December
16, 2008, A8-9. (10 color repro.)
Hwang, Jessie.
Exhibition Review, City Impressions Paintings and Photographs by US Kirk
Pedersen.www.lifeofguangzhoz.com (Guangzhou, China), October, 18,
2008. (2 photos)
Lee, Bonnie.
Television Interview. Discover Guangzhou,
GZTV - Guangzhou English Channel
(China), October 17, 2008.
Liu, Giong.
The City Impression.
Shenzhen Economic Daily (Shenzhen, China), November 16, 2008, A9.
Liu, Hai-sha.
Interview with American Artist Kirk Pedersen.MEIYUAN -
Journal of
Luxun Academy
of Fine Arts
(Shenyang,
China), 2008 - 6, 40-44. (9 color repro. including back cover)
Liu, Sha Sha.
City Impressions by Kirk
Pedersen.Shenzhen Daily (China), November 16, 2008.
Que, Zheng Gang.
American Artist Kirk Pedersen China Exhibition Opens in Guangzhou.
www.99ys.com " (Guangzhou, China), October 24, 2008. (4 color images)
Sheng, Xiao Lin.
From
the Details the World Can Be Seen.GuangzhouDaily (Guangzhou, China),
October 16, 2008, B6. (color repro.)
"A Man of Fashion." Lincoln Journal Star (Lincoln,
Nebraska), October 8, 2000, 12M. (color repro.)
Wright, John.
"The Shape of the World." The Riverfront Times (St. Louis,
Missouri), Number 983, August 6-12, 1997, 79.
Articles without listed author:
Japan
Juxtaposed: Traditional Textiles/Modern Images.The Gallery at
Penn College Newsletter,
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, 2008. 2009, 3. (color
repro.)
The Colorado Collection.
CU Art Museum Newsletter, University of Colorado, Boulder, Volume V,
2008, 11. (color repro.)
