Kenny Schneider

PO Box 542   518 Oak Street    La Veta, CO 81055       719/330-8479 cell

kenetics@centurytel.net  https://kenetics.wixsite.com/kenetics-1

 

 

 

EDUCATION:

University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, BA, Art

Adams State College, Alamosa, CO, MA, Art

 

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS:

Homestead Park Project, City of Ft. Collins, CO

Buell Children’s Museum, Pueblo, CO

Electric Wave Project, Miami Beach Transportation Management Association (MBTMA)

Lincoln Road Project, City of Miami Beach, FL aipp

Selma Park Project, Community Redevelopment Agency of LA

NOHO Sculpture Project, Community Redevelopment Agency of North Hollywood, CA

Hollywood Blvd. Project, Community Redevelopment Agency of LA (Artist-Team Project)

Palm Beach International Airport Project, Palm Beach Co. Council on the Arts

Miami-Site/Crandon Gardens, Miami-Dade aipp (Artist-Team Project)

Fire House Project, Stations 17 & 41, Seattle Arts Commission (Artist-Team Project)

MS Song of Norway

Holiday Inn (Airport), Ft. Myers, FL

 

EXHIBITIONS: (selected)

POLIN MUSEUM of the History of Jews in Poland, ECCE HOMO, film screening 2025

Kenny Schneider-Art, BLO BACK Gallery, Pueblo, CO 2-3 to 2-28-2023

My Name is Maryan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, Nov 19, 2021-Oct 2, 2022

On Edge 2021, Edge Gallery, Lakewood, CO, May 7 -23, 2021

Expressions 2020, Marin Society of Artists, May 14-Jun 27

Adams State University, Alamosa, CO, EX VOTOS, Harfield Gallery, Feb 10-Mar 12, 2020

EX VOTOS: Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ, Aug 2-Sep 1, 2019

CSU-Pueblo, Exhibition of Ex-Votos, Mar-Apr 2019-extended May, June, July

Space Gallery, La Veta, CO  Solo Show, 2/14/19

Cottonwood Center for the Arts: Solo Show 1/4/19

Online Exhibition: Politically Inspired Art: Part 2, Jane Chafin Offramp, 3/9/17

Adams State/CSU-Pueblo University Faculty Exchange Exhibition, Jan. 20-Feb.5, 2014

EAT: A 60th Anniversary Feast: Flaherty NYC, Anthology Film Archives, Spring,2014

e4Culture (e4C), 4Culture’s Electronic Gallery, Seattle, WA 2009-10

Film Colorado, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO 2006

Rocky Mt. Biennial 2004, MOCA, Ft. Collins, CO

20th Anniversary Exhibition: Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

Exhibition Tour: Colorado Council on the Arts

“CO=Excellence 98”: Traveling Exhibition, Alternative Arts Alliance, Denver, CO

“Blowin’ in the Wind”: exhibition of whirligigs, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

Awareness Alert: Breast Cancer: Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

National 97 Exhibition: Alternatives, San Luis Obispo, CA, Peter Frank, juror

Lincoln Rd. Public Art & Design: South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, FL

Colorado Call: The Art Center of Douglas County, Castle Rock, CO

Behind The Wheel: The Art Center of Douglas County, Castle Rock, CO

Strictly Sculpture: Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA, Betye Saar, juror

Two Person Exhibition: The Artist’s Gallery, Ojai, CA

24th Annual Small Painting Exhibition: New Mexico Art League

Group Show: Nemeroff-Deutch Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Solo Show: Fiona Whitney Gallery, LA, CA

Group Show: Virginia Miller Gallery, Palm Desert, CA

Art Against AIDS: Miami-Dade Community College

Dashboard Art: John Michael Kohler Center, Sheboygan, WI

Fear of Others/La Peur de Autre: Vancouver, BC, Canada

6th Annual Alcoa: Gallery 76, Winatchee Valley College, Harold Balzac, juror

A Playful View of Reality: Brea Civic Center & Cultural Center, Brea, CA

Collaborations: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), N. Miami, FL

Humor in Art: Tempe Art Center, Tempe, AZ

17th Ceder City Annual: Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, S. Utah State College

Solo Show: Ground Zero Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

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29th Annual Hortt Memorial Exhibition: Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Marcia Tucker, juror

16th Annual Works on Paper: SW Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, Alfred Leslie, juror

South Florida Sculptors, 75th Diamond Jubilee S. Florida Fair in conjunction with the Palm Beach Art in Public Places Trust

Group Show, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

49th National Exhibition of Paintings, The Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, Robert Treat Buck, juror

Transcending Confines: Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA

WORD: Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, FL

Group Show: Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Is., FL

3X3: Boca Raton Museum of Art

The Art of Miami: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, Vicki Kopf, juror

19th Orange County Art Assn. Exhibition: Brea Center, Fullerton, CA

Group Show, Lowe Art Gallery: University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Southeast Works on Paper: Florida Gulf Coast  Art Center, Bellaire, FL, Richard Flood, juror

Small Works National 84: Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY, Charles Rand Penney, juror

60th Shreveport Art Guild Exhibition: Shreveport, LA, Fritz Shoulder, juror

Miami Landmark Designs: The Lowe Art Gallery, U. of  Miami, Coral Gables, FL

National Painting Exhibition: Woodstock, NY

8th Annual Small Works Competition: 80 Washington Sq. East Galleries, NYU, Carol Janus, juror

Las Vegas National: The Allied Arts Council, Las Vegas, NV

1st Annual Prize Competition: Provincetown Art Assn., Benny Andrews & Alice Neel, jurors

Solo Show: Gallerie 99, Bay Harbor Is. FL

Small Works National: Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY, Phyllis Kind, juror

4th Annual Small Works: 80 Washington Sq. E. Galleries, NYU, Ivan Karp, juror

 

FILM SCREENINGS: (selected)

“The Edible Cinema” Pacific Film Archive, University Art Gallery, UC Berkeley

Solo Show (Films), The Cinemateque of the San Francisco Art Institute

The Art Director’s Club, NYC

Temple University Conference on Visual Anthropology

NY City Dept. of Parks & The Society of Lincoln Center

The Kitchen, NYC

Universities of: MN, WA, NM, AL, WI, CO (boulder), MD, MI, CA (Berkeley) Syracuse, IN, SUNY (Albany), Brooklyn College, Fordham University

Mercer Arts Center, Dramatis Personae, KCET-TV, LA, CA, Film Forum, Millenium Workshop

Whitney Museum of American Art: New Film Makers Series, David Bienstock, curator,

The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar,

The Museum of Modern Art’s Bi-Centennial Salute to Film Comedy

 

FILM FESTIVALS:

Tampere, Finland, Ann Arbor, MI, Yale, Festivale di Popoli: Florence, Italy, Festival de Film Underground: Paris, France, Rochester International, Sorrento International, Italy, San Francisco International, Chicago International, Antioch, New York Film Festival

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

The David W. Bermant Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA, The Community Redevelopment Agency of LA, The Seattle Arts Commission, Palm Beach Int’l Airport, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust, Holiday Inn Corp., AT&T Transtec, Walter Annenburg Collection, La Cinemateque Francaise, Musee du Cinema, Paris, Libraries: New York (Donnell), Brooklyn, Brooklyn College Film, Nassau County, Suffolk County, Colorado State, Denver, UC Berkeley, Boston, Rochester, NY

 

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PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: (selected)

Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, Mel Brooks & Ann Bancroft, M/M Gerald Robins, M/M Joel Friedland, M/M Steven Muss, Ms. Ann Rachlin, Ms. Meryle Samuals, M/M Alan Greenwald, M/M Larry Samson, M/M Ron Seiden, M/M Neil Amdur, M/M Eugene Massin, Tony Goldman, Raymond Zimmerman, M/M Charles Burson, Ms. Michelle Isenberg, Ms. Barbara Marcus

 

AWARDS:

1999 Visual Arts (3D) Artist Fellowship, Colorado Council on the Arts & the NEA

Certificate of Appreciation: the Community Redevelopment Agency of LA

City Capital Projects Design Awards: Seattle Arts Commission

Juror’s Award: 24th Annual Small Painting Exhibition:

Juror’s Award: Objects in Transition

Juror’s Award: 8th Annual Small Works National

New York State Council on the Arts (CAPS) Grant

Silver medal: New York Film Festival

Award of Merit, Festivale di Popoli, Florence, Italy

Award of Merit: Tampere International Film Festival

Award of Merit: Chicago International Film Festival

Yale Film Festival: 2 prizes

Oskar Kokoschka Prize: SommerAkademie fur Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria

 

 

ADDENDUM:

Vice President La Veta Creative District, 2019-present

Board of Directors, Spanish Peaks Arts Council, 2015-present

Vice President: La Veta Re-2 School Board, La Veta, CO, 2008-2016

Board of Directors: Spanish Peaks Regional Medical Center and the Colorado State Veterans Nursing Home, Walsenburg, CO 1998-2008, Chairman, 2003-2008

Vice President, Board of Directors: La Clinica, Gardner, CO 1995-2008

Board Member, Spanish Peaks Alliance for Arts & Education, 2008-present

President: Huerfano Co. Art Council 1998-2004, 2008-present

Visiting Professor: CSU-Pueblo, 2005-2009, summer 2012 to present

Director: A Donde Fue Juan Jose?, feature length film (2002)

Panelist: Media Fellowships, Colorado Council on the Arts

Asst. Professor, Multimedia Arts, Trinidad St. Jr. College, 1997-2002

Who’s Who in America

Who’s Who in American Art

2004 Design Consultant, City of Ft. Collins

Donor: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

Film-Makers Coop, NY, NY

Historic Arkansas River Project (HARP) Art Advisory Committee, Pueblo, CO

 

 

 

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