Grants & Awards

2006
Ballinglen Arts Foundation Residency, Ballycastle, Ireland.

2005
Bard Research Fund Award

2004
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH.

2003
Yaddo Colony Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY, (declined)

1999
Pratt Faculty Development Award

1994
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (Printmaking)

1987
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (Painting)
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

1983
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH.

1982
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.

1981
Ford Foundation Travel Grant (Italy)

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Lesley Heller Gallery, N. Y. C. Coral Series.

2004
Axel Raben Gallery, N.Y.C., New Work , 2001-2004.

2003
Painting Center: Project Room, N.Y.C. , Monotypes: 1999 -2002.

2002
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, Ken Buhler– Monotypes.
Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA, Recent Work.

2001
The Beach Museum, Manhattan, Kansas, Ken Buhler - Monotypes.
Rosefsky Art Gallery, SUNY Binghamton, NY, Paintings and Monotypes

1996
O’Hara Gallery , N.Y.C., Paintings and Monotypes, 1994-1996

1992
Michael Walls Gallery, N.Y.C., Paintings and Monotypes, 1990-1992

1991
Michael Walls Gallery, N.Y.C., Monotypes

1990
Michael Walls Gallery, N.Y.C., Paintings, 1988-1989

1983
Hudson Walker Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, The War is Over.
The Painting Center, N.Y.C., Thirteenth Anniversary Show.
Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, Benefit Show.

2005
International Center for Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France, Obsessions.
Garage Gallery, Pont-Aven, France. Un Petit Peu

2004
Heidi Cho Gallery, NYC, To Die For.

2003
The Workspace Gallery, N.Y.C., Resonance.
Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY, Merry III.
University of Florida Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL. Thinking In Line: A Survey of Contemporary Drawing.

2002
Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, All Drawing.
Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY. Small Drawings
Cathedral of Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Milestones for Peace.
Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY., Merry II.

2001
The International Artists Museum, Tel Aviv, Milestones for Peace
Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY, Merry.

2000
Kouros Gallery, N.Y.C, Gallery artists
Frederick Spratt Gallery in association with Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery,
San Fransisco,Painters/Painters
The Crest Hardware Show, Williamsburg, NY, Curated by Gene Pool.
Markel Fine Arts, N.Y.C., Small Things Come In Good Packages

1999
Korous Gallery, N.Y.C., Twelve Duets
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Former Fellows Show

1998
Robert Steele Gallery, N.Y.C., Five Artists in New York
McKee Gallery, N.Y.C., Absolut Secret.
Takara Gallery, Houston, Print.

1997
Robert Steele Gallery, N.Y.C., Intimate Universe (Revisited)
James Howe Fine Arts Gallery, Keane College, New Jersey, Intimate Universe.
Robert Gilson Fine Arts, The Art Exchange Show,N Y.C.

1996
The Threadwaxing Space, Scratch, N.Y.C.
Art Initiatives, N.Y.C., Ap-Praising Abstraction.

1995
E.S. Vandam, N.Y.C., East/West: Cross Cultural Influences in Painting.
O’Hara Gallery, N.Y.C., The Romantic Impulse.
The Workspace, N.Y.C., Down the Garden Path
Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA., Group Show

1994
Cynthia McCallister Gallery, N.Y.C., To enchant (blue)
Kohn, Pederson, Fox Gallery, N.Y.C., Abstract Expressionism, An Ongoing Legacy
Galerie Meilich-Bender, Munich, Spannungsfelder
On Crosby Street, N.Y.C., Isn’t It Romantic?

1993
Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA., Classical Abstraction
Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, N.Y.C., Structure
The Painting Center, N.Y.C., The Inaugural Show
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, The Intimate Universe

1992
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, N.Y.C., Contemporary Surfaces
Michael Walls Gallery, N.Y.C., Intimate Universe
Max Protecht Gallery, N.Y.C., A New American Flag
Tribeca 148 Gallery, N.Y.C., Beneath the Surface
Art in General, N.Y.C., Salon

1990
Michael Walls Gallery, N.Y.C., The Environs of Elegance

1989
Michael Walls Gallery, N.Y.C., Second Anniversary Exhibition
Michael Walls Gallery, N.Y.C., Five Painters

1988
Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, N.Y.C., New Talent
John Davis Gallery, N.Y.C.
Michael Walls Gallery, N.Y.C., Approaching Landscape
Aubes 395 Gallerie, Montreal, Canada, Living In New York

1987
A.I.R. Gallery, N.Y.C., Invitational

1986
P..S. 122 Gallery, N.Y.C., Wild Surmise
Exit Art, N.Y.C., Consensus
A.I.R. Gallery, N.Y.C., Invitational

1985
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie NY., Thirteen Painters
Exit Art, N.Y.C., Surplus

1984
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA., The Sioux City Connection

1983
Provincetown Fine Arts Association, Provincetown, MA., Young Artists Annual
Marisa Del Re Gallery, N.Y.C., Ten Fellowship Artists

1979
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA., 31st Annual Iowa Artists Exhibition

1978
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA., 30th Annual Iowa Artists Exhibition

Selected Bibliography

Wallentini, Joseph, Gallery Views/Chelsea “ Ken Buhler at Axel Raben Gallery”,
Abstract Art Online, September 2004.
Oakes, Julie, “We’re Not Looking” Canon: Arts, Ideas, Words, Spring 2004
Ron Janowich and Ron Moore, Catalog and essay, Thinking in Line, University of Fl.
Wallentini, Joseph, Gallery Views/Soho “ Ken Buhler at The Painting Center”, Abstract Art Online, January 2003.
Cook, Christopher, Essay for exhibition Interiors/Exteriors, Sioux City Art Center, 2003.
North, Bill, Text for the catalogue of Ken Buhler – Monotypes, 2001.
Egg: The Arts Show, episode 1, Art - Who Needs It? PBS/WNET,Jan. 13, 2000 .
Spratt, Frederick, Text for the catalogue of Painters/Painters, 1999. McGuinness, Sheila Sinead, Text for the catalogue Provincetown: 100 years an Arts Community, 1999.
Gould, Claudia, Smith, Valerie (editors), Twenty Five Years of Artists Space, 1999.
Chang, Danielle, Text for the catalogue of Scratch, 1996, The Threadwaxing Space.
Zimmer, William. “Abstract Expressionism Is Alive and Well,” The New York Times, Sunday, November 27, 1994.
Rubinstein, Meyer Raphael. Text for the catalogue of Isn’t It Romantic, 1994. Ostrow, Saul, “Empty Space and the Void,” essay for the exhibition East/West: Cross Cultural Influences in Painting.
Tuchman, Laura. “Less and More Vie for Attention,” San Jose Merchant News, September 19, 1993.
Licata, Elizabeth. “Small Wonders,” The Buffalo News, April 9, 1993.
Malloy Nancy. “Reviews: Ken Buhler at Michael Walls,” Art News, February 1993; with black- and white reproduction
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Ken Buhler,” New York Times, November 13, 1992.
Rubinstein, Meyer Raphael. Text for the catalogue of Beneath the Surface, 1992.
Reid, Calvin. Text for Manual, Art in General 1992 - 1993, pp.15, 20, & 66. 1993.
Bass, Ruth. “Reviews: Ken Buhler at Michael Walls,” Art News, May 1990; page 218.
black- and-white reproduction on page 218
Thompson, Walter. “Review of Exhibitions: Ken Buhler at Michael Walls,” Art in America, May 1990; page 242, with a color reproduction on page 242.
Rubinstein, Meyer Raphael. Text for the catalogue of Living in New York, 1988.
Pollock-Krasner Annual Report, list of award recipients with reproduction, 1987.
White, Patrick. “The Sioux City Connection: An Alumni Show,” New Art Examiner, February 1984.
Butler, Tom. “The Sioux City Connection,” Artifact, January - February 1984.
Yau, John. “Ten Fellowship Artists from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown,” Arts Magazine, April 1984, page 125
Baldwin, Nick. “Iowa’s Best,” Des Moines Sunday Register, page 5B, May 21, 1978

Selected Collections

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
IBM
John and Pat Magliocco
The Maslow Collection
McCrory Corporation
Prudential
John and Judi Hannan
The Boston Company
Screen Actors Guild
Joan Snyder
Marine Midland
Michael Walls
Paul and Helene Cantor
The Beach Museum, Manhattan Kansas.
The Sioux City Art Center
Argossy Partners
Peerless Imports
many other private and corporate collections