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Kenney
Mencher http://www.kenney-mencher.com/Biography and Résumé I
was born in Brooklyn February of 1965. During much of my
childhood I lived in Brooklyn the Bronx, upstate NY, Sarasota Florida
and Manhattan. (Both my mother and father divorced and
remarried.) The real hero of my childhood is my older brother
Marc who literally changed my diapers, taught me how to do all the
things a person should know how to do.
I started to learn to paint and draw when I was six or seven years old.
As
a young adult at the High School of Art and Design I dabbled in
non-traditional relationships, drugs, museums. I also began to
learn to paint in the classrooms of Irwin Greenburg who taught me how
to oil and watercolor.
After
dropping out of the High School, I worked construction demolishing the
interiors and renovating buildings on the Lower East Side of
Manhattan. I was having a rough emotional time and once again my
older brother and his partner Kirk rescued when they invited me to move
to Cincinnati Ohio with them. I worked as a cook in a Pizza
Place on Mount Adams, studied during the day and painted as much as I
could. After a year of college at the University of
Cincinnati I went back to the Bronx where I finished college at CUNY
Lehman. A fantastic college!
After completing my undergraduate studies, I went on to travel to California and Ohio to complete my graduate studies.
Since
2014 or so I’ve stopped working galleries, mainly because I wanted to
sell paintings at lower prices. I also like building a more
personal relationship with my collectors. This change also
allowed me to focus on themes that Hang Gallery in San Francisco,
dropped me for, and the STRS Gallery in Sacrament censored. (Sexual
charged paintings of men and women mainly from a gay/queer/homoerotic
point of view.)
After
17 years of teaching art history and studio courses at Ohlone College
in Fremont, California I retired in June 2016 to pursue painting full
time.
Resume:
KENNEY MENCHER
Kenney.Mencher@gmail.com
http://www.kenney-mencher.com/
EDUCATION
1993-1995 University
of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
MFA Painting
1991-1994 University of California,
Davis, CA
MA Art History -Thesis Title:
"Vampires, the Audiences
they Consume."
1988-1991 City University
of New York, Bronx, NY
Magna Cum Laude; BA Art
History
1985-1986 University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, OH
& Spring 1988
1981-1985 Art Students' League,
Manhattan, NY
1978-1982 Art & Design
High School, Manhattan, NY
EMPLOYMENT
1999-2016
Associate
Professor of Art & Art History, Ohlone College, Fremont, California
1998-1999 Instructor of
Art History & Western Civilization,
San Francisco University High
School
1996-1998 Assistant Professor
of Art & Art History, Texas A&M University, Laredo, TX
EXHIBITIONS: Solo and Two
Person
2016 Tracy Center for the Arts, Tracy, CA
The Convict and the Boy, A Graphic Novel and Installation by Kenney Mencher
with publication edited by the artist.
(Solo)
2012
Ohlone College, Fremont CA
Renovated
Reputations: Paintings, Istallation and Mixed Media by Kenney Mencher
with publication edited by the artist.
(Solo)
2012
Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento CA
Renovated
Reputations: Paintings, Istallation and Mixed Media by Kenney Mencher
with publication edited by the artist.
(Solo)
2012
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
Renovated
Reputations: Paintings, Istallation and Mixed Media by Kenney Mencher
with publication edited by the artist.
(Solo)
2012
Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos CA
Renovated
Reputations: Paintings, Istallation and Mixed Media by Kenney Mencher
with publication edited by the artist.
(Solo)
2011
ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Renovated
Reputations: Paintings, Istallation and Mixed Media by Kenney Mencher
with publication edited by the artist.
(Solo)
2009
ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In
Black and White: Monochromatic Paintings by Kenney Mencher and Caroline
Meyer
2008
Art Museum of Los Gatos, California Sex, Politics and Misogyny Peter Langenbach
and Kenney Mencher
2008
Sequential Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Cads
and Coquettes
(Solo)
2008
Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, California
Lovers
and Liars
(Solo)
2007
Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Faces
and Farces
(Solo)
2007
Gallery 2611, Redwood City, California
Clichés
and Characters
(Solo)
2006
Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Kenney
Mencher: Recent Work
(Solo)
2006
Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Apperceptions
and Allegories
(Solo)
2006
Norton Studio Gallery, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
Being
There
(Solo)
2006 Esteban Sabar
Gallery, Oakland, CA
Similes and Sayings
(Solo Show)
2005 Dig Fine Art,
Providence, RI
Clichés &
Proverbs
(Solo Show)
2005 Elliott Fouts Gallery,
Sacramento, CA
Hamlettes on Wry
(Solo Show)
2005 Mountain View Center
for the Performing Arts, Mountain View, CA
(Solo Show)
2004 Louie-Meager Art Gallery,
Gary Soren Smith Center, Ohlone College, CA
Dress Code
(Solo Show)
2004 STRS Gallery,
Sacramento, CA
2001 Craighead-Green,
Dallas, TX
Kenney Mencher and Connie
Connally
1997 Laredo Center for the
Arts, Laredo, TX
Noir Images
(Solo Show)
EXHIBITIONS: GROUP
2011
ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The
Men's Room
2010 Elliott Fouts Gallery,
Sacramento, CA
Go Figure
2010 ArtHaus Gallery, San
Francisco, California,
Resurgence
2008 ArtHaus Gallery, San
Francisco,
California Figurative
Works by Gallery and Guest Artists
2007 Klaudia Marr, Santa
Fe, NM 14th
14th Annual Realism Invitational
2007
2006 Klaudia Marr, Santa
Fe, NM
13th Annual Realism
Invitational
2006 Triton Art Museum,
Santa Clara, CA
Beyond the Likeness:
Self Portraits by California Artists
2003 Hang Gallery Palo Alto,
CA
One More Thing Before
I Go
1999 Jenkins-Johnson Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
First Annual Realism
Invitational
1998 Jenkins-Johnson Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Small Works
1998 Jenkins-Johnson Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Nancy Switzer, Milt Kobayashi,
and Kenney Mencher
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