John McDevitt King was born in Detroit, MI. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
EDUCATION
1978-82
MFA, Hunter College, City
University of New York
1977-78
Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ
1977
New York Studio School, New York,
NY
1972-77
BFA, Wayne State University,
Detroit, MI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Merge, "Refracted Light: John McDevitt King", encaustic paintings and works on paper, Stone Ridge, NY
2018
Place de Cornavin 3, "Behind The Seen", recent paintings and drawings, Geneva, Switzerland
2015
Van Deb Editions, "Conversation Piece", recent drawings with Claire Seidl photographs
2014
Heskin Contemporary, "Edge of Dark", recent drawings and a video, New York, NY
2011
Van
Deb Editions, “Soft Ground”, recent prints and drawings, New York, NY
2008
Atkinson
Gallery, “John King: Paintings, Drawings, Prints” Santa Barbara City College,
Santa Barbara, CA
2005
Vicenza
Art Fair, “How I Know: Drawings by
John King”, Vicenza, Italy
2003
Rosenberg
+ Kaufman Fine Art, “Return Receipt, an exhibition of drawings and a poetry
reading celebrating
the publication of a collaborative book between John King and William Corbett”,
New York, NY
2002
Rosenberg
+ Kaufman Fine Art, “New Work”, New York, NY
2000
Rosenberg
+ Kaufman Fine Arts, “Recent Work”, New York, NY
1998
The
Gallery At R & F, "Encaustic Paintings", Kingston, NY
1992
Sean
Elwood Fine Arts, "Talking To Myself"- Sketchbook and Small Scale Drawings,
Seattle, WA
1990
Fuller/Elwood
Gallery, "Recent Work", Seattle, WA
1988
Greene Street
Studio, NYC, "Recent Paintings and Works on Paper", Sponsored by
Fuller/Elwood Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982
Hunter
Gallery, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Jason McCoy Gallery, "the one who best understands the significance of light", online exhibition, New York, NY
Jason McCoy Gallery's Website Drawing Challenge Exhibitions XVII through XXIV
2020
Brooklyn Navy Yard Virtual Exhibition, A Moment Materialized, Artists Response to COVID 19. amomentmaterialized.com
Jason McCoy Gallery's Website Drawing Challenge Exhibitions X, XI, XIV, XV and XVI
2019
Yard Work Gallery, "Kindred Constructs", Brooklyn, NY
2018
Novosibirsk Graphics Triennial, Novosibirsk, Russia
Van Deb Editions, "Summer Selects", New York, NY
2017
University of Richmond Museums, "Iterations: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing", Richmond, VA
2016
Urban Glass, "Render: Responding to Glass", New York, NY
2013
Van Deb Editions, "Black + White", New York, NY
2012
Heskin Contemporary, "Watermarks", New York, NY
2011
Center
for Contemporary Printmaking, “Printed by Master Printers”, Norwalk, CT
2010
La
Medusa Centro di Cultura, “Natura Ad Arte”, Este, Italy
2009
Van
Deb Editions, “Tenth Anniversary”, New York, NY
6th
Novosibirsk Graphic Biennale, Novosibirsk Museum of Art, Novosibirsk, Russia
2006
VanDeb
Editions, “New Prints”, New York, NY
Rosenberg
+ Kaufman Fine Art, “Gallery Artists”, New York, NY
2005
Rosenberg
+ Kaufman Fine Art, “Fall Group Show”, New York, NY
2005
Rosenberg
+ Kaufman Fine Art, “Panel Paper Canvas”, New York, NY
2002
Rosenberg
+ Kaufman Fine Art, “Intrepid”, New York, N.Y.
The
Drawing Center, “25th Anniversary Exhibition”, New York, NY
2000
Rosenberg
+ Kaufman Fine Arts, “Sun Signs”, New York, NY
Bank
of America Gallery, “The Elwood Collection”, Seattle, WA
1999
Exit
Art, in conjunction with “The Stroke-Painters Choose Painters”, New York, NY
Catherine
J. Smith Gallery, “Halpert Biennial”, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Greg
Kucera Gallery, “SEEditions”, Seattle, WA
1998
Rosenberg +
Kaufman Fine Art, “Summer”, New York, NY
The Gallery At R & F, "International Exhibition of Encaustic Works", Kingston, NY
1996
The
Gallery At R & F, “Five Artists”, Kingston, NY
1995
Fukuya Art
Gallery, "Hiroshima: From Me To You", Hiroshima, Japan
1994
Sharadin
Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Drawings: Explorations 94, Kutztown, PA
SeaFirst
Columbia Center Gallery, "Stealth", Seattle, WA
1993
C
& A Gallery, "Drawings", New York, NY
1991
Times
Square Gallery, "Ten Year MFA Invitational", Hunter College, New
York, NY
1989
Brooklyn
Museum, "Recent Print Acquisitions", Brooklyn, NY
Fuller/Elwood
Gallery, "Objects of our Affection", Seattle, WA
1988
SoHo
Center for Visual Artists, "Four Painters", New York, NY
1986
Stephen
Rosenberg Gallery, "Black, White, and Gray", New York, NY
1985
John
Nichols Printmaking/Publishing, "Intuition and the Block Print", New
York, NY, traveled
to: Fuji-i Gallery, Tokyo, Japan and Gallery 72, Omaha, NE
1984
Community
Arts Gallery, “Alumni in New York”, Detroit, MI
Hunter
Gallery, Hunter College, “Recent Alumni”, New York, NY
John Nichols
Printmaking/Publishing, "Two Years, Strother/Elwood Art Editions",
New York, NY
1982
The
Drawing Center, "New Drawing in America", New York, NY
The
Alternative Museum, "Mixed Bag", New York, NY
1980
The
Drawing Center, "Selections 10", New York, NY
Alexander
Carlson Gallery, New York, NY
1978
Feigenson-Rosenstein
Gallery, Detroit, MI
12th
Southwestern Invitational, Yuma, AZ
Harry
Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ
1977
Harry
Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ
Willis
Gallery, "New Members", Detroit, MI
Community
Arts Gallery, Detroit, MI
23rd
Annual Drawing Exhibit, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Artist
Guild of Detroit Galley, "Peripheric Plus Two", Detroit, MI
1976
Detroit
Artist Market, Detroit, MI
Community
Arts Gallery, Detroit, MI
AWARDS
2019
Honorarium, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2009
Honorarium,
Northampton Community College, Easton, PA
2008
Honorarium,
Northampton Community College, Easton, PA
Honorarium,
Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
1994
Program
Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1986
Pollock-Krasner
Foundation Grant
1985
National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
1980
Honorarium,
The Drawing Center, New York, NY
COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Arts Center, Little
Rock, AR
Best
Products Company, Inc.
Brooklyn
Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Gemological
Institute of America, Carlsbad, CA
Harvard
University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Hood
Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Library
of Congress, Washington DC
New
Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
Washington
State University, Pullman, WA
Weatherspoon
Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Yale
University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Zimmerli
Art Museum’s Rutger’s Archives for Printmaking Studios, New Brunswick, NJ
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022
"Stealing Light", Susan Yung, Merge exhibition catalogue essay for "Refracted Light: John McDevitt King"
2017
Almost There, Julie Warchol, Print Review
2014
John King at Heskin Contemporary, Susan Yung, The Ephemeralist
2011
“In
Pursuit of Alien Perfection”, Susan Yung, The Brooklyn Rail, March, 2011
2010
Natura
Ad Arte, Grafica Internazionale D’Arte, Exhibition Catalogue and Essay
2008
The
Quiet Power of the Ambiguous, Stephen T. Vessels, Santa Barbara Independent
Traveling
Between Worlds, Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara News-Press
Hot
Beeswax & Boards at Atkinson Gallery, Siyang Che, The Channels
2007
Checking
In At The Hotel King, Brochure Essay, William Corbett
2005
Much
So Strangely Soft and Self-Illuminating: The Drawings of John King, Catalogue
Essay, Kathryn
A. Tuma
Il
Giornale Di Vicenza, L’immaginazione di John King, 3/31/05, Vicenza, Italy
I
Viaggi Di Republica, Nella Dimora Della Fantasia, 3/31/05
Corrierre
Del Veneto, Il Mio Modo Di Conoscere, 3/31/05
2002
The
Artist’s Illustrated Encyclopedia, Phil Metzger, pg. 151-152, North Light Books
2000
The
Amplitude of Twilight, Catalogue Essay, Mark Daniel Cohen
Seattle
Times, Seattle, WA, 11/17/00, Mathew Kangas
1998
The
Daily Freeman, Kingston, NY, 2/27/98, Joan D’arcy
1997
Woodstock
Times, Woodstock, NY, 1/02/97, Renee Samuels
1990
Reflex,
Seattle, WA, November-December
1984
Print
News, Vol. 6, No. 6, November- December
New
York Times, Dec. 9, "Gallery View", Grace Glueck
1983
Appearances
Magazine, Spring Issue
1982
New
York Times, Apr. 4, "Gallery View" by John Russell
1980
The
Soho News, New York, N.Y., June 18, by John Perreault
1977
The
Detroit News, Detroit, Mi., June 5, by Joy Hakanson Colby
The
Detroit News, Detroit, Mi., July 3, by Joy Hakanson Colby
1976
The
Detroit News, Detroit, Mi., Oct. 10, by Joy Hakanson Colby
ARTIST BOOKS
2022
John McDevitt King, artist book/exhibition catalogue for Merge, Stone Ridge
2018
10X+, an artist's book of installation concepts and writings using diamond as metaphor
Neptune Avenue, an artist's book documenting the development of an etching on hand made, pulp painted paper
2015
Conversation Piece, an artist's book of drawings and photographs in collaboration with Claire Seidl
2012
Hotel King, an artist's book of hotel stationery drawings with an interview by Susan Yung
2008
Desire
and Compatibility, an artist’s book in an edition of 50
2003
Return
Receipt, Artist book collaboration consisting of drawings on hotel stationery with
corresponding poems by poet William Corbett
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2022
Artist Talk, Merge, Stone Ridge in conjunction with the solo exhibition "Refracted Light: John McDevitt King"
2021
Lecturer, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Virtual Program: Earth, Sea, Sky and the Colored Universe of Blue Gemstones
2020
Studio Interview for the exhibition "A Moment Materialized". Sponsored by the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Found at: AMomentMaterialized.com
Studio Interview in conjunction with Open House New York: "In the Studio with John McDevitt King". Found at:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/7567173
2019
Guest Artist (Studio Visit), Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2009
Guest
Artist (Studio Visit), Northampton Community College, Easton, PA
2008
Guest
Artist (Studio Visit), Northampton Community College, Easton, PA
Santa
Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
2006
“Technology
and Artistic Perception”, Hawaii Jewelers Association, Honolulu, HI
2005
“Drawing’s
Role”, Vicenza Rotary Club,
Vicenza, Italy
2002
Guest
Artist (Studio Visit), Drew University, Madison, NJ
1986
Visiting
Artist, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1984
"Making
Art In New York", Panelist, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1980
Artists'
Symposium, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
