Born

1954 Los Angeles, CA

Education

1977-1979 California State University Long Beach

1979 Otis Parsons, Los Angeles, California

Selected Public & Private Collections

Albertina, Vienna, Austria • Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California • Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach • California Palm Springs Art Museum, California • Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany • UCI Institute and Museum for California Art, Irvine, California • Thomas Olbricht, me Collectors Room, Berlin Herbert & Rita Batliner, Liechtenstein • Steve Martin, Beverly Hills, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA

2022 Thirty Swimming Pools, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2021 A Day at the Beach, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Montecito, CA

2019 Water Paintings, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA

2018 Kenton Nelson: Water, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA

New Work, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2017 Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, New York

Recent Paintings, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena

2016 Splash: Art by Kenton Nelson

California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA

2015 Californian Idealism: Paintings by Kenton Nelson

Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA

Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2014 Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Bohemian Club, San Francisco, CA

2013 Obstacles and Competition SpardaWelt Sparda-Bank

Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

2012 Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Peter Mendenhall Gallery, New York, NY (pop-up)

Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2010 Galerie Haas AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, CA

2009 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2008 Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany

Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles,CA

Art Brussels 26th Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels

2007 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2006 Plus One Gallery, London, England

2005 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

Reynolds Gallery, Westmont College, Montecito,CA

Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA

Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, CA

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