Ken Schles
Brooklyn, NY 1960
Solo Exhibits
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
2005 Traces and Omens, Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL) 2005 Promised Land, Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL) 2005 Marks of Honour: A Striking Library, FOAM, 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
2004 Promised Land, Stichting Aurora Borealis, Groningen, NL 2002 Here is New York: a democracy of photographs, Scalo 2001 The Geometry of Innocence, Ken Schles, Hatje Cantz 1999 Wonderland, Published by Stichting Aurora Borealis, edited by Wim Melis and Machiel Botman 1988 Invisible City: Photographs By Ken Schles, Twelvetrees Press
Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 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
Education Studied with Len Jenshel, 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 has given studio talks to visiting students from Rhode Island School of Design and the Rochester Institute of Technology.