Kenneth Price

1935 Born in Los Angeles, California, United States of America; as a child becomes fascinated with Mexican folk pottery and Oriental ceramic art

1956 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; attends Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles to study with Peter Voulkos

1959 Masters of Fine Arts, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University

1962 Included in exhibition, Fifty Californian artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York; travels to Japan to study Japanese ceramic methods

1968 Makes first prints at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles

1969 Solo exhibition, at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

1970 Included in exhibitions: Contemporary American sculpture, Whitney Museum of Art; Nine print portfolios, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; completes Figurine cup series at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

1971 Included in exhibitions, Contemporary ceramic art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Technics and creativity: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; moves to Taos, New Mexico; renews interest in Indian and Mexican folk pottery; completes Interior series at Gemini G.E.L.

1972 Included in exhibition, Contemporary American art: Los Angeles, Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Texas

1974 Included in exhibition, Clay, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

1975 Included in exhibitions: Sculpture: American directions 1945–1975, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; 30 years of American printmaking, Brooklyn Museum, New York City; completes editions of Frog cup and Mediterranean lizard cup

1976 Included in exhibition, 200 years of American sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

1979 Included in exhibitions: Contemporary sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; A century of ceramics in the United States: 1878–1978, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

1981 Included in exhibition, Ceramic sculpture: six artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

1984 Included in exhibition, An international survey of recent painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York City

1986 Included in exhibitions: Individuals: a selected history of contemporary art 1945–1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Poetry of  the physical craft today, American Craft Museum, New York City

1994 Included in exhibition, Ceramic sculpture and drawings, Harwood Foundation, Museum of the University of New Mexico, Taos

2012 Kenneth Price died in New Mexico

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This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.