Kurt Kauper

Visiting Assistant Professor in Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Kurt Kauper received a B.F.A. from Boston University in 1988 and an M.F.A. in painting from UCLA in 1995. He has had solo shows at ACME Gallery in Los Angeles, and Deitch Projects in New York City. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions both in the United States and Europe, at venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Pompidou Center in Paris, the Kunsthalle Vienna, and the Stedelijk Museum in Gent. He has received numerous awards, including grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Tiffany Foundation, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Oakland Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. He has held teaching positions at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Yale University.  He is currently a Professor of Art at Queens College, CUNY.

Kurt Kauper’s paintings have, for the past ten years, been images of familiar cultural icons—Opera Divas, Cary Grant, hockey players, and Michele and Barack Obama—seen in a variety of unfamiliar ways. His most recent one-person exhibition, Barack and Michelle Obama, was held at Deitch Projects in New York City from October 3 to October 31, 2009.