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Education
MFA — Stanford University
BA/BFA — English Literature/ Studio Art Tufts University, Medford, MA and
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Solo Exhibitions
2007 Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2006 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
2004 CCSRE, Stanford, CA
2002 Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco
2001 Debs & Co., New York
2000 Luggage Store, San Francisco
1998 Gallery ESP, San Francisco
1991 San Francisco African American Historical Society

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Hyères 2008 Festival, Hyères, France
2008 A Dead Serious Group Show, Sister, Los Angeles
2008 In the Fullness of Time, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
2008 Before and After, And/Or Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Crooked Mirror, envoy, New York
2007 Space is a Place, PICA, Portland, OR
2007 Refresh (Before and After), Postmasters Gallery, New York
2006 Collection in Context, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City
2005 Poets Theater, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2004 Poetry and Its Arts, California Historical Society, San Francisco
2004 Continuities, UC Davis, The Nelson Gallery, Davis, CA, Curated by Renny Pritikin
2004 I Love Music, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
2004 The Gray Area — Uncertain Images, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, SF,
Curated by Matthew Higgs
2004 Un/Familiar Territory, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2003 Rendered, Works on Paper, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2003 I am a Curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
2003 Real Unreal, Sheppard Fine Arts, Los Vegas, NV
2001 Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City and
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Curated By Thelma Golden
2001 Marked, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York City, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Berkeley Art Museum, MATRIX Curator
2000 SF Drawing Show, New Image Art, Los Angeles, curated by Chris Johanson and Alicia McCarthy
1998 Bottoms Up, The Lab, San Francisco
1997 Stirred Not Shaken, Refusalon, San Francisco
1996 Luscious, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
1995 Obsession, Southern Exposure curated by Gary Garrels, Chief Curator, SFMOMA, San Francisco
1994 Bong, Kiki, San Francisco, CA and Alleged, NYC
1993 Science Fair, Southern Exposure
1993 Pop Life, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1993 Hypothalmic In[queer]ies, San Francisco Camerawork , San Francisco

Selected Performances
2008 INARMS, California College of the Arts, produced by Small Press Traffic
2006 THE GIRL IN THE PARK, California College of the Arts, produced by Small Press Traffic

Select Public and Private Collections
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
JP Morgan Chase Art Program, New York
Thorn EMI, Inc., Boston
Kika Borghese, Rena Bransten, Dr. Austin Conkey,
Nick Debs, Ann M. Hatch, Judy Moran

Grants, Awards, Residencies
2005 Cite International Des Arts, Paris Residency
2003 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2001 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship
2001 The ArtCouncil Grant
1993 Pen Writers Grant
1991 Magna cum Laude
1991 Phi Beta Kappa
1991 Tufts University Poetry Prize,
1989 Academy of American Poets Prize

Selected Publications
2001 Freestyle Catalog by Studio Museum in Harlem

Artists Writings
2004 Nocturne, edited by Giovanni Singleton
2001 Art Journal, edited by Michelle Lee White
2001 Nocturne, edited by Giovanni Singleton
2000 STEP INTO A WORLD, edited by Kevin Powell for John Wiley and Sons
1998 Spirit and Image, by Arnold J. Kemp
1997 Touch (CD), by Southern Exposure
1996 Merry Christmas, Baby by Harper Collins
1995 River Styx , by Quincy Troupe
1994 Mirage #4/ Period(ical), by Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy
1994 On the Verge , by Faber & Faber
1993 Agni Review , by Boston University
1992 Callaloo , by John Hopkins University
1991 Callaloo , by John Hopkins University
1990 Three Rivers Poetry Journal, by Carnegie Mellon University

Professional Affiliation
1993 – 2003 Associate Visual Arts Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Selected Shows Curated
2003 5ive Projects: Contemporary Art from Sweden, Yerba Bunea Center for the Art
Bay Area Now 3, Yerba Bunea Center for the Art
2002 Slowdive, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2001 Rapper's Delight, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2001 Laylah Ali, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2000 Tracey Moffat, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2000 Above and Beyond, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
1999 Beholding Beauty, Bedford Gallery , Walnut Creek
1999 Bay Area Now II, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , with Renny Pritikin and René De Guzman
1998 Mark Dion,: Where the Land Meets the Sea, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts
1998 Needles and Pins, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
1997 Ladies of the News, Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens
1997 Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, with Renny Pritikin and René De Guzman
1997 Organically Grown, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
1997 Heavy Petting: Drawing on Queer Practice, Queer Arts Resource — http://www.queer-arts.com
1996 Beyond the Outer Limits, Headlands Center for the Arts
1996 Hall of Fame Hall of Fame, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, with Renny Pritikin
Spring Performance Series, Berkeley Art Center

Select Speaking engagements
2003 Commonwealth Club of California: Bay Area Art Scene; Featuring Doug Hall,
Matthew Higgs, Arnold J. Kemp, Heather Marx, and Themis Michos

Selected Articles and Reviews
1997 David Bonetti, “Kemp: An artist unmasks the past,” San Francisco Examiner, March 27
1998 Amy Berk, “Arnold Kemp at ESP”, Art in America, June
2000 David Horton, “Color Theory at the Luggage Store,” Artweek, September
2001 Jason Schmidt “The New Masters,” Vibe, May
2001 Sarah Valdez ‘Freestyling,” Art In America, September
2001 Holland Cotter “Arnold J. Kemp,” The New York Times, November 9
2002 Jesse Hamlin “A necessary labor of art,” The San Francisco Chronicle, September