CURRICULUM VITAE
2024
Joseph Kinnebrew
Born: 1942, Tacoma Washington
www.josephkinnebrew.com
DEALER/GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Tau Finne Art, Sun Valley Idaho
Cassara Galleries, NYC, Stanwood WA, LaConner WA, Vancouver, BC
The Harbor Gallery, Kanuela, Hawaii
Fineartamerica.com
Life Designee of the Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea
EDUCATION:
Post Graduate study: Institute for Study of Instructional Development and Technology, 1969 – 1970
Graduate study: MA/M.F.A. – Michigan State University, 1970
Post Graduate study: University of Michigan, 1968
Undergraduate study: B.A. – Syracuse University, 1964
EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Allied Arts
2024 WAVE
2021-22 Tau Fine Art
2020 Cassara Gallery
2019 Aberdeen Art Gallery
2018 5th Annual Abstract Catalyst Exhibition, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, Or.
Art Miami
Art Chicago (SOFA)
Art Toronto
2013 Annual Stanford Sculpture Exhibition
2013 Wickiser Gallery
2012 International Fine Art Painting Competition, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.
Valour Art Juried Exhibition 2012
Walter Wickiser Gallery Summer 2012
Art Toronto 2011
Walter Wickiser Gallery summer 2011
Art Chicago 2011
Art Miami 2010
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York 2007, 2009, 2010
Harbor Gallery 2008
City/County Everett Washington
Marziart Internationale Galerie, Hamburg, Germany, 2007
The Main Contemporary Gallery, Dallas, 2007
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, 2007 winter and summer shows
The Main Contemporary Gallery, Dallas, 2006
Four Star Gallery, Indianapolis, 2006
Palm Beach International Biennale, 2006
Energy Gallery, Toronto, 2005
Upstream People 7th Annual Painting, Drawing and Print International Online Juried Art Exhibition” 2005
Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea 2003 (Florence, Italy)
Westcott Bay Reserve Outdoor Sculpture Invitational 2003, Roche Harbor, San Juan Islands, WA
La Conner Public Art Exhibition, 2003, LaConner, WA
Everett Center For The Arts, one-man show, Jan/Feb 2003, Everett, WA
Issaquah Washington Invitational 2003-2004, Issaquah, WA
Sculpture 2000, Bellingham, WA
12th Annual Juried Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Lawrence, KS 1999
Meijer Botanical and Sculpture Gardens, Grand Rapids, MI, August – October 1997
The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, August – October 1997
Mercer Island Sculpture Garden, Mercer Island, WA, 1997 – 1999
Virtuosity, Art Communication International, New York, NY, 1996
Pinson Fine Art, Sun Valley, ID, “The Real, the Unreal and The Surreal”, 1995
QE2 Cruise, New York, South Hampton, Lisbon, Azores, Canary Islands, – Celebrity Artist,
“Joseph Kinnebrew – A Selection of Paintings, 1993
International Art Exposition, Osaka, Japan 1992
The Architectural Institute of B. C., Vancouver, BC, Joseph Kinnebrew, 1987
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI,
Selections from Detroit Hospital Art Collection, 1984
American Institute of Architects, Lansing, Michigan,
50 Most Significant Structures in Michigan, 1982
more complete list available on request
RECENT SPECIAL PROJECTS:
Feature length movie. Major Studio in production
Blaine Arts Council, formation, Blaine Washington
Extreme Creative Genius Study, Univ Iowa, 2017 (Human subject #12, most intensive brain study ever undertaken on creativity, 20 vetted subjects)
Google Robotics, paper, 2015
Movie, Down in the Valley, artistic director, 2015-2017, IMDB listed
Artistic Director, Studio One @ Seabrook
Salon Discussions
BOOKS AUTHORED BY KINNEBREW:
TRUTH nonfiction (coming in 2024)
2024 The Orchard (fiction)
2023 Diva, (fiction)
2023 Little boys, Big Dreams and the Hobo War (memoir, nonfiction)
2019 Before the Sun, (aesthetics)
2018 To Die For, (a treatise on death and life)
2018 Human Beings, being (a treatise on conscious awareness)
2018 ADSUM, How, What and Why and Artist Thinks, ISBN 9781980844525
2018 Vengeance is Mine, (fiction) ISBN 9781983264801
2017 Tick Tock (Intervals), ISBN 0989406423
2013 The Yerkes Project, (fiction) ISBN 978-0-9894064-1-3
2013 Digital Collage ISBN 978-0-9894064-0-6
2013 Neil Armstrong Space Exploration Monument, prepared for NASA
2013 Destination Yerkes, prepared for NASA & Univ of Chicago
COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Modern Art (NY)
National Collection of Fine Arts
The Art Institute of Chicago
Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN)
Guggenheim Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Library of Congress
Brooklyn Museum
Eccles Museum of Fine Art (Logan, UT)
Grand Valley State University Museum (Allendale, MI)
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Detroit Institute of Art
The Museum of Fine Arts – Houston
The Houghton Library – Harvard University
Arizona State University
New Orleans Museum of Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Honolulu Academy of Arts
The University of Texas
Michigan State University
Grand Rapids Art Museum (Grand Rapids, MI)
Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Atkins Museum of Fine Arts – Kansas City
Cranbrook Arts Academy (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
Steelcase Corporation (Grand Rapids, MI)
Amway Corporation (Ada, MI)
Swedish Hospital – Seattle, WA
Frederik Meijer Botanical and Sculpture Gardens, (Grand Rapids, MI)
Whitbred International, London, UK)
Coopers and Lybrand (Castries, St. Lucia, W.I.)
Private collections available upon request
AWARDS:
Arts Communications International “Finest Artists at End of Millennium” 1996
Selected participant in American Cancer Society’s major fundraising event, October 1993
State of the Art ’93 invited participant (largest and most competitive juried exhibition in U.S.) (New York)
Celebrity Artist and Guest Lecturer aboard QE2 cruise, November 1993
Soho International Competition 1992 (New York)
Invited Participant in International Art Exposition, Osaka, Japan 1992
Invited Participant in Smithsonian Archives of American Art Auction 1992
(150 leading American artist invitees) (Washington DC & Detroit Michigan)
Grand Rapids Fish Ladder selected by Michigan Society of Architects
“50 Most Significant Structures in Michigan”, 1984
Michigan Society of Landscape Architecture, First Honor Award, 1983
Salon International D’Art, International Art Poster Exhibition (Israel)
Industrial Design Society of America, National Design Award, 1980 (Washington DC)
Michigan Governors’ Award (first recipient in sculpture) (Lansing Michigan)
1982 National Street Furniture Design Competition (2nd prize) (HUD, Washington DC)
“Awards “77”, National Design Award, Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (Washington DC)
Michigan Product of the Year, 1979 (transit shelter)
Addy Award “76 for Grand River Sculpture graphics (Midwest region)
Addy Award “78 for Grand Rapids city parking system logo and signage (Midwest region)
National Community Art Competition — HUD (Washington DC)
COMMISSIONS:
Burlington Public Library
Skagit Valley Hospital
St. Mary’s Hospital, Lacks Cancer Treatment Center
Ford Motor Company (Detroit Michigan)
International Telephone and Telegraph
Harris Bank and Trust Company – Chicago
Interlochen National Arts Academy
Detroit Receiving Hospital/University Health Center
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company
Dyer Ives Foundation (inner city pocket parks)
Grand Rapids Forging and Steel (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Tucson Opera Association (3 years of set design) (Tucson Arizona)
Michigan Dental Association (Lansing Michigan)
University of San Francisco (San Francisco, California)
Knape and Vogt Company (Grand Rapids Michigan)
Grand Haven Wastewater Treatment Authority (Grand Haven, Michigan)
Phoenix Corporation (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
University Liggett School (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan)
Wigand Corporation (Iowa)
Suite 35, Serigraphs for Public Television (Allendale Michigan)
Butterworth Hospital (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Howard Miller Clock Company Corporate Headquarters, Zeeland, Michigan)
architectural, interior and landscape design
Cities of: Grand Rapids, MI; Lansing, MI; Grand Haven, MI;
Winfield, IL; Janesville, WI; Pittston, PA
St. Luke’s Hospital – Sun Valley, Idaho
private collection commission list available upon request
WORKS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
The Public Face of Architecture, Nathen Glazer/Mark Lilla
Architecture and You Caudill, Pena, Dannon, 1978
Water in Landscape Architecture Campbell, 1979
Art in Business Hunter, 1979
“Issues in the Visual Arts” Detroit Institute of Art, 1977
Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institute
“50 Most Significant Structures in Michigan” Michigan AIA
Urban Encounters: Art and Architecture
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
Artists in Michigan of the 20th Century
Outdoor Sculpture in Grand Rapids, Hendry
Who’s Who in the West
Sun Valley (Idaho) Celebrity Cookbook
WORKS PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES:
Fortune Magazine Horizon In-Flight Magazine
Art Forum Elevation Magazine
Saturday Review Sun Valley Art Magazine
GEO Magazine Skagit Valley Business Journal
AIA Journal (cover story)
Progressive Architecture Esquire
Architectural Record Nation’s Cities
Interior Design (cover story) Florida Builder
The Valley Magazine Perfect Home
Sports Illustrated Mass Transit Magazine
Popular Science Michigan Art Journal
Art Business News Luxe Magazine 2008
MISC. SPECIAL PROJECTS AND TEACHING:
Lecturer Microsoft Corporation
Syracuse University visiting artist
Seminars on Intuition
Art Theory classes Sun Valley Id, (project director, teach)
National Endowment for the Arts/Artist in Residence (teach)
National Endowment for the Arts/Statewide coordinator 1973/ Artist in Residence
Michigan State University School of Packaging (teach)
Michigan State University School of Human Ecology (teach)
Michigan Council for the Arts
Chairman, Aid to Individual Artists Panel
Co-Chairman, Visual Arts Advisory Panel
Co-Chairman, Visual Arts Advisory Michigan State Bi-Centennial
Field Coordinator Artists in the Schools Program
Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities (painting instruction)
Juror for various shows and competitions
Patent #s 248776, 258765, 263523, 262755, 268058 (design, technical, mathematics)
Varitec, laser
carpet design: Scott Group USA; Hugh Mackay UK
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
Body and Soul, Tucson AZ, 2012
Microsoft Corporation 2011
Trafagar Endowed Lectures delivered abord the QE2
Syracuse University
Endowed Lecturer Grand Valley State University
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Cranbrook School of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Institute of Business Designers, Lansing, MI
Michigan State University
Syracuse University Alumni Association, Syracuse, NY
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
University of Idaho Alumni Association
Western Michigan University
American Institute of Architects, Detroit, Lansing, Kalamazoo, MI
University of Michigan
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Kendall School of Design (commencement address), Grand Rapids, MI
QE2 Cruise, guest celebrity artist
Seminar on Arts in the Schools – New Orleans, LA
Michigan Art Educators Association – annual meeting 1973, 1974, 1983 (keynote address)
Idaho Arts Alliance (1989 keynote address)
GRANTS:
National Endowment for the Arts, 1975, 76
Dexter Charitable Trust, 1976
Michigan Council for the Arts, 1970
Dyer-Ives Foundation 1974
Wisconsin State Arts Council, 1970
Thomas Erler Seidman Foundation 1976
Associated Truck Lines Foundation 1975-76
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Joseph Kinnebrew Contact:
joseph@josephkinnebrew.com . www.josephkinnebrew.com
4294 Birch Bay Lynden Rd, Blaine, Wa 98230
reviewed 9.4.2023