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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2018 – McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
• the McNay, Kent Rush (American, b.1948)
Beauty in the Mundane: Master Printmaker Kent Rush Finds Fascination in the Overlooked, Bryan Rindfuss, SACurrent
100 YEARS OF PRINTMAKING IN SAN ANTONIO: KENT RUSH, the McNay

2014 – REM Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
• KENT RUSH: CONCRETE POETRY AND OTHER POEMS IN GRAY, Scott Andrews, Arts and Culture Texas

2010 – Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas

2003 – Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas

2002 – Legion Arts/CSPS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

1998McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

1995[ArtPace], Hudson Showroom, San Antonio, Texas
Kent Rush: Long Shots, Exhibition: Jun 10 – Jul 9, 1995, artpace

1993Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1990 – Coke Gallery, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1990 – Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Miraflores, Lima, Perú

1990 – The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England

1988 Art Space, Los Angeles, California

1988 – La Galeria Del Taller De Las Artes Plásticas,”Rufino Tamayo”, Oaxaca, México

1984Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, California

1976Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2022 – “Drawn in San Antonio,” McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

2020 – “The Machine Stops (or Inkjet Mt Foot!),” University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

2020 – “Jorge Garza – Kent Rush: New Works,” Hunt Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2016 – “A Plastic Practice: The Still-life in Contemporary Art,” Terminal 136, San Antonio, TX

2015 – “Hare and Hound Press + Artpace: The Art of Collaboration,” Cruz, Hudson Showroom, Artpace, San Antonio, TX

2014 – Arezzo&Fotografia 2014, “Sei per Sei: Six Texas Visionary Artists,” Arezzo, Italy

2010 – Leipzig Lichtdruck Kunst, “Thirkell, Hajicek, Rush: Contemporary Collotypes,” Leipzig, Germany

2006 – St. Bride Printing Library, “Collotype Exhibition,” London, UK

2000Institute Franco-American, “U.S. Printmakers: The Artist Inker’s Almanac,” Rennes, France

1996 Southeast Museum of Photography, “FRESH WORK,” Daytona Beach CC, Daytona Beach, FL

1994Diverse Works, “Drawing/Crossing the Line,” Houston, TX

1993 – Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art, “Crossing Territories,” NM

1993The Center for Photography at Woodstock, “Social Studies/Public Monuments,” NY

1992 Emison Art Center, DePauw University, “Contemporary Texas Printmakers,” Greencastle, IN

1991Art St. Louis, “1991 M-AAA Award Winning Photographers,” St. Louis, MO

1989La Galería de La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Extención, San Antonio, TX

1988 – Lawndale Art and Performance Center, “Texas: Exploring the Boundaries” (FOTOFEST ’88), Houston, TX

1986 – Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Bahia, “Papel Arte,” Bahia, Brazil

1982 Bradford Galleries, “Seventh British International Print Biennale”, Bradford, England

1981Art Space (two person), Los Angeles, CA .

1980 Detroit Institute of the Arts, “Cliche-Verre: Hand-Drawn, Light-Printed,” Detroit, MI

1978New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, “First Southeast Graphics Annual”

1977Madison Art Center, “Works on Paper by Contemporary American Artists, ” Madison, WI

1975Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, “1975 Santa Fe Biennial,” Santa Fe, NM

1971Oakland Museum, “Phelan Awards: Photography 1971,” Oakland, CA

RECOGNITION AND AWARDS:

– Senior Fulbright Fellowship, Research/Lectureship, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1988
Fulbright Scholar Program | Kent Rush

Mid-America Arts Alliance/NEA Artist’s Fellowship in Photography, 1991-92

– Partners of the Americas Grant, Lima, Perú, 1990

– Artist-in-Residence, Tamarind Institute, 1991

– President’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Creative Activities, University of Texas, San Antonio, 1990-91

PUBLISHED:

Light, Patsy and Kent Rush. The Artisans of Trabajo Rústico: the Legacy of Dionicio Rodriguez. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2021. Artisans of Trabajo Rústico: The Legacy of Dionicio Rodríguez, Patsy Pittman Light, Photographs by Kent Rush (book)

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Williams, Lyle.  Kent Rush: A Retrospective 1970-1988.  San Antonio: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, 1998. (amazon)(Google Books)

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