kenseth armstead  :  kenseth@kensetharmstead.com  :  www.kensetharmstead.com

 

education

 

2005

Polytechnic University, Integrated Digital Media Institute (MS)

 

1991

Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program

 

1990

Corcoran College of Art and Design (BFA)

 

1989

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

 

awards

 

2008

Film / Media Grant, Creative Capital Foundation

 

2008

Digital Matrix Commission, Longwood Arts Project / Bronx Council on the Arts

 

2007

Individual Artist Grant, Film & Media / New Technical Production, NYSCA

 

2006

Artist in Residence, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace

 

2006

Artist in Residence, Harvestworks

 

2006

Artist in Residence, Trebesice Castle, Trebesice, Czech Republic

 

2005

Excellence in Integrated Digital Media Award (Full-tuition Scholarship,) Polytechnic University

 

2003

Woodstock Artist in Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock

 

2003

Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts

 

2002

Viewing Program, The Drawing Center

 

2000

Sculpture Purchase Prize Award, African American Museum

 

1999

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

 

1997

Funded Artist in Residence, Sculpture Space, Inc

 

1996

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

 

1996

U.S. Representative of Arts and Technology, Global Youth Exchange Grant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

 

1989

Camille Hanks Cosby Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

 

exhibition selections (* catalog available upon request)

 

2008

Unnamable Name, Tompkins County Library, Ithaca, NY*

 

2007

Late Empire, Roebling Hall, New York, NY

 

2007

ART PARTY Silent Auction, a benefit for the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY

 

2007

The Downtown Dinner Silent Auction, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY

 

2007

LMCC Workspace Open Studios, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY

 

2006

MEMORIA:  invisible_cities:  i_prague_2 (from trebesice), FUTURA centre for contemporary art, Prague, Czech Republic*

 

2006

Open Studio Trebesice Castle, Trebesice, Czech Republic

 

2006

CinemaScope:  Perpetual Art Machine, (Curated by Lee Wells,) Scope Art Fair, NY*

 

2006

Made in Woodstock III, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY

 

2005

MULTIPLEX, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

 

2005

BROOKLinVIDEO, FUTURA centre for contemporary art, Prague, Czech Republic

 

2005

Arco International Art fair: Video Archive, Gigantic Artspace, Madrid, Spain

 

2004

20th Gala Ball Auction, African American Museum, Dallas, TX

 

2004

F|r|a|m|e analysis of movement, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY

 

2004

Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY*

 

2004

Tactical Action, Gigantic Artspace, New York, NY*

 

2004

Hope:  War Child Auction, Christie’s, London, England*

 

2003

AIM 23, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY *

 

2003

Veni Vidi Video, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

 

2001

300 Years of African American Art, African American Museum (Included by curator Phillip Collins,) Dallas, TX

 

2000

Biennial: 19th Carroll Harris Simms, National Black Art Competition and Exhibition, African American Museum, Dallas, TX

 

1999

I am poem, film broadcast on Nickelodeon & Noggin

 

1998

Fiction, Washington Projects for the Arts/Corcoran, Washington, DC *

 

1996

NYFA Video Fellowship Winners 1996, 530 Lines of Resolution, Den of Thieves, New York, NY

 

1995

Long Wood Arts Project Benefit Exhibition, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY

 

1993

Miahaus, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY

 

1992

Dusk til Dawn, Dooley Le Capellaine Gallery, New York, NY

       

 

collaborative exhibition selections (as a member of the four-person collaborative art band X-Prz)

solo

 

1995

No sell out... i wnt 2 b th ultimate commodity/machine (Malcolm X Part II,) Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC *

 

1994

Video installations VideoFest 1994, (Podewil) East Berlin, Germany *

 

1993

Dn't worry bout th gvrmnt, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

 

1993

Jst bcz ur paranoid dn’t thnk thyr nt aftr u (Malcolm X Part 1,) Alternative Museum, New York, NY *

Exhibition traveled to:  Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA, Spaces, Cleveland, OH, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN

group

 

2002

Politics of resistance and musical cultures, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain

 

2001

Race in Digital Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

Exhibition traveled to:  Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

 

2001

Take Two: Contemporary Work by 13 International Artists, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada

 

2000

Sounding Snow, Centre Pour L'Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland

 

1999

Frames of Reference:  Reflections on Media, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

 

1997

Translocations, Photographers Gallery, London, England *

 

1996

No Doubt: African-American Art of the 90s, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT *

 

1994

Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY *

Exhibition traveled to:  Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

 

1994

West Publishing Art and the Law Exhibition, West Publishing Company, Seattle, WA *

Exhibition traveled to:  Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, Art Institute, Canton, OH, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO, Tyler Art Gallery, Oswego, NY

 

1993

Malcolm X: On the Subject, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

 

 

press selections

 

2006

Three Takes on Memory, Tony Ozuna, The Prague Post

 

2006

Memoria, Lucie Ernstova, Atelier

 

2006

Memoria, Lada H. Vacková, Art and Antiques

 

2006

Residency program offers artists immersion in work 'Made in Woodstock' exhibit shows depth, Kathleen Murray, Poughkeepsie Journal

 

2006

New exhibits at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Babette Fasolino, Pulse

 

2005

Fast tracks, New American works capture the frenetic pace of modern living, Lizzy Le Quesne, The Prague Post

 

2004

In Geometric Forms, Bending Nature at Will, D. Dominick Lombardi, The New York Times

 

2004

Framing movement:  Show opens activities at Photography Center, Paul Smart, Woodstock Times

 

2004

Extra Open: A conversation with Charlotta Kotik, Dread Scott, and Bill Scan, Horace Brockington, New York Arts Magazine

 

2004

Tactical Action, Broadcast Aired 05.10.2004, Stephanie Simon, New York 1

 

2004

Voice Choice, Editor's Pick, Village Voice

 

2004

Brooklyn Museum Set To Reopen After Multi-Million Dollar Facelift, Stephanie Simon, New York 1

 

2004

Local Color:  The Brooklyn Museum opens its doors to the borough‘s best artists, Howard Halle, BKLYN

 

2003

Lineup For "Working In Brooklyn", N.F. Karlins, Artnet News

 

2003

Market Share Statements & Strategies:  Young Artists Negotiate Their Entry Into the Gallery Scene, Karen Rosenberg, V. Voice

 

2003

A Mix of Works in the Bronx, Ken Johnson, The New York Times

 

2003

Art Review:  Don’t Miss…  ”Aim 23”, Sarah Schmerler, Time Out New York

 

2003

Multimedia:  Opening, AIM 23: Artist in the Marketplace, Paul Laster, Flavorpill

 

2002

Art Stars Dress Up, Kay Itoi, Artnet Magazine

 

2000

Black and beyond, Exhibit embraces more than African-American themes, Mike Daniel, The Dallas Morning News

 

2000

Dallas museum sponsors a singular art event, Tom Sime, The Dallas Morning News

 

2000

Competition encourages black artists, Susan Parrot, The Arlington Morning News, Associated Press

 

1999

Arts Beat, Exhibition of Black Art opens, Tom Sime, The Dallas Morning News

 

1999

Dallas museum Showcases art by African Americans, Susan Parrot, Austin American-statesman

 

1999

African American Museum of Art announces winner of national black art competition, Calvin Verret Carter, The Weekly

 

1996

They Turn Teens Into Teachers, Michael Ryan, The Washington Post, Parade Magazine

 

1996

In Connecticut, Old Meets the New, Roberta Smith, The New York Times

 

1995

A Very Different Picture, Tom Patterson, The Charlotte Observer

 

1995

Art About Town, Community Pride Magazine, Charlotte, NC

 

1995

Provocative Art: Black Male, Laura Accinelli, L.A. Daily Breeze

 

1995

Black Male: Reframing Race in America, Susan L. Taylor, World Art Magazine

 

1994

1993 in review Alternative Spaces, Art in America

 

1994

Black Studies, Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

 

1994

Visible Man, Elizabeth Hess, Village Voice

 

1994

Voice Choice, Kim Levin, Village Voice

 

1994

Arriva L'uomo Nero, Marco De Martino, Panaroma

 

1994

Black Like Them?, Mark Stevens, New York Magazine

 

1993

Heroes, Hypocrisy & Malcolm X, Dennis Freeland, The Memphis Flyer

 

1993

Voice Choice, Kim Levin, Village Voice

 

1993

DeCordova Scores a Perfect 11, Christine Temin, Boston Globe

 

funding

public

·       The National Endowment for the Arts (X-Prz)

·       The New York State Council on the Arts (X-Prz)

·       The New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs (X-Prz)

·       The North Carolina Arts Council (X-Prz)

·       The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg (X-Prz)

private

·       Scharff Weisberg Inc.

·       Martin Marietta Projection & Display Products (X-Prz)

·       Sculpture Space

·       The Jerome Foundation (X-Prz)

·       Media Play (X-Prz)

·       Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Media Program (X-Prz)

·       US Air (X-Prz)

·       Duncan Parnell Inc. (X-Prz)

·       Borders Books and Music (X-Prz)

·       Video Systems of the Carolinas (X-Prz)

·       Mediopolis Berlin e.V. (X-Prz)

·       The Peter Norton Foundation (X-Prz)

·       The Weatherhead Foundation (X-Prz)

 

collections

·       African American Museum, Dallas, TX

·       Center for Photography at Woodstock at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

·       Centre Pompidou (X-Prz)

·       Cinemedia, Melbourne, Australia (X-Prz)

·       William Cosby, New York, NY

·       Charlene Engelhard, Boston, MA (X-Prz)

·       Elizabeth Bigham-Hotson & David Hotson, New York, NY

·       Kaywon School of Art & Design, South Korea (X-Prz)

·       The Ottawa Art Gallery (X-Prz)

·       Richard Schebairo, New York, NY

 

publications

 

2007

30 years of Sculpture Space, Sculpture Space

 

2005

On location, Aspect Magazine, Volume 6

 

2004

Video Art, Michael Rush, Thames & Hudson  (X-Prz)

 

2004

Photography Quarterly, Center for Photography at Woodstock

 

2004

NYFA Artist of the Week, NYFA Interactive

 

2003

New York Portraits, Barney’s New York, Men’s Fall catalog

 

2000

Millennium Report, The Pollack-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

 

1998

Surface tensions, Art Journal Fall 1998

 

1996

Visual Arts and Technology in the Twenty-first Century, Global Youth Exchange, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

 

1995

Black Male: Reframing Race in America, Susan L. Taylor, World Art Magazine (X-Prz)

 

1995

No sell out... i wnt 2 b th ultimate commodity/machine (Malcolm X Part II), Catalog, Spirit Square Center for the Arts (X-Prz)

 

1993

Y/X?, Jst Bcz U R Paranoid Exhibition Catalog, Alternative Museum (X-Prz)

 

1991

Whitney Independent Study Program 1990 - 1991 Journal, Whitney Museum of American Art


lectures and talks

 

2007

Spook Experiments:  A Dialog, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, NY

 

2007

Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ

 

2007

Pace University Fine Arts Public Lecture Series 2007, Pace University, New York, NY

 

2003

Artist Talk:  in_authentic_b, video and digital printing, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

 

1998

Visiting Artist Talk, MFA Program Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

 

1996

Visual Arts and Technology in the Twenty-first Century, United Nations University, Global Youth Exchange, Tokyo, Japan

 

1995

Artist Talk, No Sell Out (Malcolm X part 2,) Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC (X-Prz)

 

1994

Kunstler Strategien (Artist Strategies), Berlin Video festival, Berlin, Germany (X-Prz)

 

1994

Artist Talk, Jst Bcz U R Paranoid, Spaces, Cleveland, OH (X-Prz)

 

1994

Artist Talk, Jst Bcz U R Paranoid, Anderson Gallery at VCU, Richmond, VA (X-Prz)

 

1993

Artist Talk, Jst Bcz U R Paranoid, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN (X-Prz)

 

other accomplishments

 

1996

Managing Editor, Rhizome Internet (currently rhizome.org)

 

1991

Co-Founded the art band X-Prz with Tony Cokes, Doug Anderson and Mark Pierson