About The Artist

JOSEPH KINNEBREW COLLECTIONS: The Art Institute of Chicago National Collection of Fine Arts Walker Art Center Library of Congress The Guggenheim Museum Brooklyn Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Houghton Library - Harvard University The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Arizona State University Detroit Institute of Art New Orleans Museum of Art The Museum of Fine Arts - Houston Honolulu Academy of Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art The University of Texas Atkins Museum of Fine Arts - Kansas City Michigan State University Swedish Hospital - Seattle The Grand Rapids Art Museum Utah State University Cranbrook Steelcase Corporation Coopers and Lybrand COMMISSIONS: Ford Motor Company Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Detroit Receiving Hospital/University Health Center Harris Bank and Trust Company - Chicago Howard Miller Clock Company Butterworth Hospital Corporate Headquarters Cities of: Grand Rapids, MI; Lansing, MI; Frederick Meijer Botanical Gardens Grand Haven, MI; Winfield, IL; Janesville, WI University of San Francisco Grand Valley State University International Telephone and Telegraph Interlochen National Arts Academy EXHIBITIONS: Art Miami 2011 Art Chicago 2011 Art Toronto 2011 Wickieser show May 2011 Wickieser gallery group show summer (s) 2008. 2009, 2010, 2011 Marziart Internationale Galerie, Hamburg Germany 2007 The Main Contemporary Gallery, Dallas 2007 Walter Wickeiser Gallery, New York 2007 Four Star Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, 2006 Palm Beach International Biennale, 2006 Energy Gallery, Toronto, 2005 Upstream People 7th Annual Painting, Drawing and Print International Online Juried Art Exhibition” 2005 Stamford Sculpture Invitational (CT) 2005 Carillon Point Invitational Exhibition (sculpture and paintings) 2004 Maryhill Museum of Art Invitational 2004 Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea 2003 (Florence, Italy) Issaquah Invitational 2003/2004/2005 Westcott Bay Reserve Outdoor Sculpture Invitational 2003/2004 La Conner Public Art Exhibition, 2003 Everett Center For The Arts, one man show Jan/Feb 2003 Sculpture 2000, Bellingham, Washington, 1999 12th Annual Juried Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Lawrence, Kansas 1999 Meijer Botanical and Sculpture Gardens, August - October 1997 The Grand Rapids Art Museum, August - October, 1967, 1997 Mercer Island Sculpture Garden, 1996 - 1998 Virtuosity, Art Communication International, 1996 Pinson Fine Art, "The Real, The Unreal and The Surreal", 1995 QE2 cruise - Celebrity Artist, "Joseph Kinnebrew, "A Selection of Paintings", 1993 International Art Exposition, Osaka, Japan 1992 The Architectural Institute of B.C., "Joseph Kinnebrew", 1987 Detroit Institute of Arts, selections from Detroit Hospital Art Collection, 1984 American Institute of Architects, Lansing, Michigan "50 Most Significant Structures in Michigan", 1982 AWARDS: Michigan Governors' Award (first recipient in sculpture) National Endowment for the Arts, (largest grant to individual artist), 1973 & 1974 Upstream People 7th Annual Painting, Drawing and Print International, “Special Recognition” Merit Award Arts Communications International - CD “Finest Artists at End of Millennium” 1996 Guest Lecturer aboard QE2 cruises (3), November 1993 Invited Participant, Smithsonian Archives of American Art Auction 1992 Salon International D'Art, International Art Poster Exhibition MISC: Lecturer: Many Museums, Universities and various cultural institutions Microsoft Corp National Art Educators Conference AIA, IDSA Sun Valley Center for the Arts Additional list upon request BORN: October 12, 1942 Tacoma, Washington EDUCATION: Post Graduate study: Institute for Study of Instructional Technology Development and Technology, University of Michigan 1969-1970 Graduate study: M. F. A. - Michigan State University, 1970 Undergraduate study: B. A. - Syracuse University, 1964