KEVIN NOBLE

Studio: 92 Van Dyke St

Brooklyn, NY 11231

Phone: 917-992-2492     email: linkink@rcn.com

 

Education: 

1975 B.A. Fine Art, State College Buffalo, N.Y. 

1978 Visual Studies Workshop, MFA in Photographic Studies, SUNY at Buffalo. 

Non-Profit Gallery work

1975-82, member of Hallwalls Gallery, a non-profit artist run gallery in Buffalo NY. 

    1977-78, Director of CEPA Gallery, a non-profit photography gallery and workshop in Buffalo, NY.

1980-81, documentary photographer The Kitchen, NYC. Photographed dance, performance art and music concerts.

TEACHING:    2005-2011  Adjunct Instructor Digital Photography, New York City College of Technology

internship:  1977   National Endowment for the Arts Internship, Washington DC.

Memberships: 

1998-present, founding member of Culture & Conflict Group. Culture & Conflict Group is an artist’s collective formed with the intent to explore the intersection between art and politics in contemporary society. Culture & Conflict group has curated four group exhibitions: British Architecture in Ireland, the Puffin Room NYC 1998. Ambiguous Authority, Beacon Street gallery in Chicago 2000, Unlimited Partnerships, Cepa Gallery Buffalo, NY 2000. Settlement, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago 2002, Eden Place Arts Center, Derry, Northern Ireland January 2003, Galway Art Center, Galway, Ireland, April 2002.

2002-2005, member of 16 Beaver Group, an artists collective located at 16 Beaver Street, NYC.
Activities include weekly artists presentations and discussions on issues relating to art, theory and politics.

Public Presentations:

Presentation of paper Cultural Collaboration: Artists in the Service of Big Oil, College Art Association       Conference, New York 2007

      Panel discussion with Tom Hayden at Glucksman Ireland House, NYU, New York, 2002.    

Presentation and discussion on the work of NSK, an artists collective from Slovenia at 16 Beaver St., 2002.

    Presentation and discussion on the Settlement exhibition at 16 Beaver St., 2002.

Slide presentation and discussion The Troubles: Murals in Northern Ireland, The New School, New York 1998 with Bill Rolston, senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.

Publications: 

Making Political Art, Making Art Political Consider the Alternatives: 20 Years of Contemporary Art at Hallwalls, 1996.

    Political Aesthetics, War & Peace Fortnight magazine Special Supplement September 2001.

    Questioning Subject: An Interview with Conor McGrady, The Thing, online magazine, May 2002.

reviews:

    Vannais, Judy, Cultural Conflict, Fortnight Magazine May 1998 pp28-29.

      Davies, Lyell, Culture & Conflict: British Architecture in Ireland, Circa Magazine          Autumn 1998 p51.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS    

    2025    New York Irish Center, Long Island City, NY

   2002     Glucksman Ireland House, New York University

   1999     CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

    1999    Féile an Phoblacht, Belfast, Ireland

    1991    Panopticon, Irish Arts Center, New York

    1987    Frank Bernaducci Gallery, New York

    1987    Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia College of Art

    1986    White Columns, New York

    1981    Envy, The Kitchen, New York

    1980    CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.

    1980    Artists' Space, New York

    1979    Media Studies,  Buffalo,N.Y.

    1979    The Kitchen, New York

    1978    Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.

    1976    Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    2004,     Terrorvision, Exit Art, New York

2003,    Settlement, organized by Culture & Conflict Group, Galway Arts Center, Galway Ireland

    2002,    Settlement, Gallery 400, University of Illinois , Chicago

2000     Ambiguous Authority, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago

    2000     Unlimited Partnerships, Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1998     Culture & Conflict, British Architecture in Ireland, Puffin Room, New York

    1996    When History and Hope Collide,  Grand Central Station, New York

    1996    When History and Hope Collide,  Cannon Congressional Office Building, Wash. D.C. 

     1995    Hallwalls 20th Anniversary,   Burchfield/Penny Art Center, Buffalo, N.Y.

    1992    Bloody Sunday Show , Irish Arts Center, New York

    1990    Belfast/Beirut, A Tale of Two Cities,  Alternative Museum, NY.

    1988     Interiors, Proctor Art Center Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York

    1984    A Decade of New Art,   Artists' Space, New York

    1984    Ecstasy,  Monigue Knowlton Gallery, New York

    1983    Hundreds of Drawings, Artists' Space, New York

    1981    Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

    1980    Beau Fleuve,  The American Center, Paris

    1980    Five Years: Hallwalls,  The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY

    1979    In Western New York,  Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.

    1977    ART. V.,  Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.

    1976    Buffalo Video,  Anthology Film Archives, New York

    1975    Works on Paper,  Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.

 

Fellowships

     1979    National Endowment for the Arts , Artist's Fellowship

    1987    National Endowment for the Arts , Artist's Fellowship

 

Collections

    Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

    The Burchfield/Penny Art Center, Buffalo, New York

    AtlanticRidgefied Company

    Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY