Bio — Edward Kerr

Education

MFA-Painting and Sculpture, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1975-76 Graduate Assistant

BA, University of Mount Union, Alliance, OH

Exhibition Highlights

Photographs by Artists, Artists Image Resources, Pittsburgh, PA

Regional Forecast, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York

Christine Adapon Fine Arts, Manila, Philippines

Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

Triangle Artists Workshop, Centre International d’Arts Visuels, Marseille, France

Virtuosity: The Juried Exhibition, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

Steel Cities, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

Triangle Artists Workshop, L’Ecole d’Art de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France

Pittsburgh Arts on Tour/Vira I Heinz Endowment, Roper Gallery, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD

O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY - solo exhibition

Pittsburgh x 7, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

Geometric Abstractions, Penelec-Bowman-Megahan Art Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA

Associated Artists, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

Abstraction, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Butler National Midyear, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH

Centennial Biennial Invitational, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

Pennsylvania Painting, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

National Community Arts Program, Washington, DC

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

Juried Shows & Awards

Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 1996, Polly Apfelbaum and David Pagel, Jurors

Virtuosity: The Juried Exhibition, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 1995

Arts Communication International, Art Collection CD-Rom, Allan Stone, Ivan Karp, Jeffrey Hofffeld, Jurors

Butler National Midyear, Best in Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, 1991, Ivan Karp, Juror

Pennsylvania Painting, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, 1988, Clement Greenburg, Juror

Selected Articles and Reviews

Kenton, Mary Jean, “Edward Kerr,” New Art Examiner, April 1998

Kissick, John, “The Pittsburgh Biennial” New Art Examiner, December-January 1997

Clark, Vicky, Pittsburgh Biennial (Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 1996): 12-13

Miller, Donald, “Biennial Bravura,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 13 September 1996

“Exhibition...a testimony,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 29 July 1993

“Artists in Wood,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2 December 1989

Williams, Alun, Triangle Artists’ Workshop (Marseille 1996)

The New Yorker, 15 February 1993, 22 February 1993, 1 March 1993

Horne, Murray, Pittsburgh x 7 (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 1996): 8-9

Artists Directory, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1991

Harper, Thomas, The Alliance Review, 16 January 1988

National Community Arts Program, publication of U.S. Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 1975