Ken Schles
Born: Brooklyn, NY 1960
Solo Exhibits
2009 Noorderlict Gallery, Groningen, NL
2005 Lucas Schoormans Gallery, NYC
2002 C/O Gallery, Berlin
2002 Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln
2002 New School for Social Research, NYC
1996 Jan Kesner Gallery, LA
1992 Christine Burgin Gallery, NYC
1989 The Photography Center, NYC
1985 and 1987 Greathouse Gallery, NYC
Selected Group Exhibits
2010 Photo-Book Works, Whitman College, Walla Walla WA
2009 Les Rencontres d'Arles Photographie, Contemporary Book Award Finalist, Arles, France
2007 Cityscapes: From Metropolism To Micropolism Foto-Expositie USVA Galerie (NL)
2005 Traces and Omens, Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
2005 Promised Land, Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
2005 Marks of Honour: A Striking Library, FOAM, and Galerie Van Zoetendaal Amsterdam
1999 Wonderland, Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
1999 Under/Exposed, (site specific) Stockholm
1994 Downtown, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rottedam
1993 Disorderly Conduct, PPOW, NYC
1992 More Than One Photography, MoMA
1989 Fifteen Photographers for the Next 150 Years, Tempo, Hamburg
1988 100 Years: A Tradition of Social and Political Art on the Lower East Side, PPOW
Bibliography
Books by Ken Schles
2008 A New History Of Photography: The World Outside And The Pictures In Our Heads, White Press
2001 The Geometry of Innocence, Hatje Cantz
1988 Invisible City: Photographs By Ken Schles, Twelvetrees Press
Books and Catalogs Containing Work by Ken Schles
2007 802 Photo Books from the M.+M. Auer Collection (Auer#676)
2005 Traces and Omens, Stichting Aurora Borealis
2004 Promised Land, Stichting Aurora Borealis
2004 FOAM Issue #5 Near
2002 Here is New York: a democracy of photographs, Scalo
2001 Sense of Space, Stichting Aurora Borealis
1999 Wonderland, Published by Stichting Aurora Borealis, edited by Wim Melis and Machiel Botman
Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, USA
The Cleveland Museum Of Art, Cleveland, USA
Library at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, USA
The Brooklyn Museum, NYC, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Corcoran Museum of Art, Wash. D.C., USA
SFMoMA Architecture and Design Permanent Collection, SF, USA
The Manfred Heiting Collection, Los Angeles, USA
Education
Studied with Len Jenshel, William Gedney and Larry Fink at Cooper Union receiving a BFA in 1982. Also studied with Lisette Model at the New School for Social Research
Talks and Guest Lectures
Harvard, International Center of Photography, New York University, The New School for Social Research, Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts. Also have given studio talks to visiting students from Rhode Island School of Design and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Teaching
International Center of Photography, New York (adjunct)
Founder of The Pacific Street Photographic Workshops
Awards
Les Rencontres d'Arles Photographie, Contemporary Book Award Finalist (short-list), Arles, France 2009 for A New History of Photography
5b4: Best of Year Photography Book List (2008 for A New History of Photography)
ADC Silver Award
Addy's Best of Show
AIGA (for Invisible City)
American Photography
Black Book AR 100
Communication Arts
Critique Magazine's The Big Crit
IPA (Photographer of the Year for Culture, 2003)
New York Times Notable Book of the Year (1988 for Invisible City)
PDN
Photo-Eye: Best of Year Photography Book List (on 2 lists for 2008 for A New History of Photography)
Print Run: Best of Year Photography Book List (#2 2008 for A New History of Photography)
Show South
Society of Magazine Designers
Gold Award, Viewbook, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
Gold Award, “In Our Community” diversity booklet, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
Ken Schles is a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellow