Education and Credential
Master of Arts, San Diego State University, 1976. Industrial Arts, emphasis in industrial education in the areas of graphic arts and photography.
Bachelor of Arts, San Diego State University, 1969. Industrial Arts, emphasis areas in photography, graphic arts, and crafts; graduation with honors and with distinction in the major.
California Lifetime Community College Credential to teach art and design (including photography) and industrial arts (including graphic arts).
Photography Teaching Experience
1996–present: Gladding, McBean Photography Workshop, sponsored by Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Lincoln, California, 95648. Two-day workshops in the historic Gladding, McBean pottery.
2001-2002, 1989–1991: Sierra College, Rocklin, California, 95677. Photography Department, Adjunct Faculty. Photoshop, Color Slide Photography, Beginning Black-and-White Photography, and Documentary Photography.
1999: Yuba Community College, Marysville, California, 95901. Art Department, Adjunct Faculty. Basic Black-and-White Photography.
1998 and 1990–1991: Cosumnes River College, Sacramento, California, 95823. Photography Department, Adjunct Faculty. Beginning and Intermediate Photography and Zone System courses.
1995–1997: American River College, Sacramento, California, 95841. Art Department, Adjunct Faculty. Beginning Black & White Photography and Computer Graphics for Photo Imagery.
1995–1996: Modesto Junior College, Modesto, California, 95350. Art Department, Adjunct Faculty. Basic and Intermediate Photography.
1986–1996: The Darkroom, Sacramento, California, 95819. Private rental darkroom and workshop program, in charge of teaching. Full slate of black & white, color, view camera, and image presentation classes.
1989: University of California, Davis, Davis, California, 95616. Art Department, Visiting Lecturer. Beginning and Advanced Photography.
1987–1988: University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, 95211. Visual Art Department, Visiting Lecturer. Photography I.
1982–1983: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093. Visual Arts Department, Visiting Lecturer. Beginning Photography and Advanced Camera Techniques.
1982–1983: Palomar College, San Marcos, California, 92069. Art and Photography Department, part-time. 35mm Color Photography and 35mm Black & White Photography.
1982: Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine, 04856. Resident Faculty. Intermediate Black & White Photography Workshop.
1972–1981: Grossmont College, El Cajon, California, 92020. Art Department and Instructional Media Technology Program, part-time. Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Still Photography, History of Photography, Photographic Portfolio, and Photo-Offset Lithography.
1974: Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California, 91910. Art Department, part-time. Basic Photography.
1970–1973: San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182. Industrial Arts Department. Beginning and Intermediate Photography and Industrial Arts Crafts.
List of Selected Photography Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions:
2008: Gene Kennedy: Sacramento Architectural Photographs, Greenbuilt Gallery, Sacramento, California.
2006: Light on Clay: Photographs of the Gladding McBean Pottery by Gene Kennedy,
Sacramento International Airport Gallery, Terminal B, Sacramento, California.
2004: Luck of the Draw: Landscape Photographs by Gene Kennedy, SMUD Art Gallery, Sacramento,
California.
Gene Kennedy and Gino Chenedi: Landscape Scams and Photograhams, Audio Editions,
Auburn, California.
2001: Gene Kennedy: California Photographs, 1969-1999, California Arts Council/State Attorney
General’s Office, Sacramento, California. A 30-year retrospective.
Home and Away; The Factory and Buildings of Gladding, McBean, at Gladding, McBean in
conjunction with Feats of Clay XIV national juried ceramics exhibition, Lincoln, California.
2000: Light on Clay, University of California Extension Gallery, San Francisco.
Light on Clay; Photographs of the Gladding, McBean Pottery, Auburn Civic Center, Auburn,
California.
Amazing Place; Images of Gladding, McBean & Company, at Gladding, McBean
in conjunction with Feats of Clay XIII national juried ceramics exhibition, Lincoln.
River City: Both Sides of the Tracks, Studio 1109, Sacramento, California.
Sacramento photographs.
1998: The Promised Land; California Photographs, Studio 1109, Sacramento, California.
1997: Photographs from Gladding McBean, be-no photographic gallery, Sacramento, California.
1996: Pottery Visions; Photographs from Gladding McBean, Lincoln Arts Gallery, Lincoln, California.
Conversations with the Earth; Twenty-eight Years of Land Photographs,
Working Images Gallery, The Darkroom, Sacramento.
1992: A Decade of Distress; American Lands in Transition, The Darkroom Gallery, Sacramento.
1991: Reservoirs of Hope; Lakes without Water, The Darkroom Gallery, Sacramento.
1990: Photographs by Gene Kennedy: A Retrospective, The Darkroom Gallery, Sacramento.
1989: Naked Dams and Photograhams, Lightwork Gallery, Sacramento, California.
Landscrapes, Celebre Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1988: Predicaments: Tree Photographs by Gene Kennedy, Richard Reynolds Gallery,
University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.
Ruins from the Future, and Other Metaphors, Davis Art Center, Davis, California.
Photographs from the Other California, University of California Extension Gallery,
San Francisco.
1987: Gene Kennedy: California Carcinoma, Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, DeKalb, Illinois.
Escape from the Land of Bilk and Money, Lightwork Gallery, Sacramento.
1986: Gene Kennedy: Photographs of Another California, Sierra College Gallery, Rocklin, California.
Lighthearted Landscrape, Lightwork Gallery, Sacramento.
1983: Carcinoma County; Photographs by Gene Kennedy, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia.
Gene Kennedy; Punctuated Landscapes, San Diego Natural History Museum,
San Diego, California
1980: Landscapes and Land Rapes, Grossmont College Gallery, El Cajon, California.
Group Exhibitions:
2008: The Usual Suspects: 13 Shooters, with Focus Group members Dave Brooks, Ron Busselen, Hal
Hammond, Hope Harris, Marc Longwood, Janine Mapurunga, John Palmer, Mike Powers, Donald
Satterlee, Randy Snook, John Swain, and Richard Tolmach, Beatnik Studios, Sacramento.
Eleven Big Photographs: 11 Photographers,Deep Gallery, Sacramento. Members of the
Focus Group.
2004: Pipe Dreams & Pottery Visions: Images from the Gladding McBean Photography Workshops,
El Camino Art Gallery, El Camino High School, Sacramento. Invitational group show.
2002: Self Storage: The Topography and Psychology of Southern California Development,
1981-2001; Golden State Museum, Sacramento. Two-person show with Phel Steinmetz.
Two Photographers: Gene Kennedy and Stephen E.J. Nieslony, Audio Editions, Auburn.
2001: Sacramento Photographers: Platinum to Pixels, Design Gallery, California State University,
Sacramento.
2000: Over the Bridge: A group exhibition of Northern California Artists, California Arts Council,
Sacramento.
1999: Picturing California’s Other Landscape: The Great Central Valley, The Haggin Museum,
Stockton, California. Invitational group exhibition and catalogue.
1998: California “Progress:” Works of Man, 1848 - 1998, with David Dawson, Richard Reynolds
Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.
1996: Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Exhibition and catalogue.
Picturing the West: Four Photographic Artists and their Western Landscapes, Amador
County Arts Council Gallery, Sutter Creek, California. Four-person show with Linda Connor,
Mark Klett, and Robert Dawson.
Three Photographers, Modesto Junior College Art Gallery, Modesto, California. Three-person
show with Doug Smith and Kathryn Eldredge,
1994: Exposing Viewpoints; A Survey of Sacramento Area Photographers, Richard Reynolds
Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton. Invitational group show.
Yosemite: New Views and Old Good News, Working Images Gallery, The Darkroom,
Sacramento. Invitational group show.
1993: The Other California, Viewpoint Gallery, Sacramento Valley Photographic Art Center,
Sacramento. Invitational three-man show with Richard Meisinger and David Best.
The Other California; Photographs from and about the Great Central Valley, Modesto
Junior College, Modesto. Invitational group show.
1991: California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, California. Juried group exhibition;
Juror’s Award (Best of Show), Photography.
1990: Photography Symposium Exhibition, Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York. Invitational
group show of contemporary landscape photographers.
1987: Landscape Photography, Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.
National juried group group exhibition.
1985: Descriptions, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois.
Invitational group show with Frank Gohlke, Lee Friedlander, Edward Ranney, and others.
Four Views, Purdue University Art Gallery, West Lafayette, Indiana. Four person invitational.
1984: California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento. Juried group exhibition; First Place,
Black & White Photography, and Jurors’ Award, Photography.
Visions of 1984, University of California, Santa Barbara. Juried group show; one of six
Best of Show Awards.
The Lay of the Land; 20th Century Landscape Photographs from the Hallmark Collections,
University of Missouri, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Columbia. Invitational; catalogue.
1983: Allusions to Paradise; A Southern California Survey, San Francisco Camerawork Gallery,
San Francisco, California. Three person exhibition with Phil Steinmetz and Byron Pepper
California Bi-Annual Natural History Photographic Competition, San Diego Natural History
Museum, San Diego. Statewide juried competition; First Prize.
New Photographics/’83, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, and Cheney Cowles
Museum, Spokane, Washington. National juried exhibition; Purchase Award.
Camera Movements, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. National juried
group show; Special Award of Excellence.
1982: First Annual Photography Juried Art Exhibition, Gallery of the Multicultural Arts Institute,
San Diego, California. First Prize.
Summer Faculty Exhibition, Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine. Group show
with Paul Caponigro, Eliot Porter, Eva Rubinstein, William Garnett, John Sexton, and others.
1981: Portraits of the Earth, The Photography Gallery, LaJolla, California. Invitational show, with
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, William Clift, Joel Sternfeld, Joel Meyerowitz, and others.
New Decade, New Images, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California. National juried show.
Selected Awards
1991: Juror’s Award, Photography, California Works exhibition, California State Fair, Sacramento.
1984: Visual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts (Emerging Artist Grant).
First Place, Black & White Photography, and Jurors’ Award, Photography, California Works
exhibition, California State Fair, Sacramento.
Best of Show award, Visions of 1984 exhibition, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1983: First Prize, California Bi-Annual Natural History Photography Competition, San Diego
Natural History Museum, San Diego.
Purchase Award, New Photographics/’83 exhibition, Central Washington University, Ellensburg.
Special Award of Excellence by Nathan Lyons, Juror for Camera Movements exhibition,
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia.
1979: Award of Excellence, Potlatch Corporation, for the design of Sight Unseen: Photographs by
Ruth Mayerson Gilbert poster.
Photographic Work in Institutional Collections
California State Library, Sacramento, California.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.
Hallmark Contemporary Collections, Kansas City, Missouri.
Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington.
San Diego State University, San Diego, California.
San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, California
Selected Miscellaneous
1997: Invited Seminar Presenter, PhotoShow ’97 Midwest, Sponsored by Calumet Photographic,
Westmont, Illinois. Seminar: Craft and Vision: Redefining the Basics.
Invited Lecturer, Picturing the Central Valley lecture series, University of California, Davis.
1996–2002: Board Member and Feats of Clay Exhibition Steering Committee Member, Lincoln Arts and
Culture Foundation, Lincoln, California.
1995: Photography Juror, California Works exhibition, California State Fair, Sacramento, California.
1987: Invited speaker, Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Image Makers track,
San Diego.
1984: Invited speaker/panelist, Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference,
Water in the West panel, Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
1980–1981: Project Director, National Endowment for the Arts California Water Project photography
survey grant, Grossmont College, El Cajon, California.
Project Director, National Endowment for the Arts Viewpoint Ceramics, 1981 exhibition and
catalogue, Grossmont College, El Cajon, California.
1979–1980: Project Director, National Endowment for the Arts Helen Levitt: Color Photographs exhibition
and catalogue, Grossmont College.
Publications (By)
Self Storage(preliminary title) with Phel Steinmetz, Joint photographic book (in preparation) about the topography and psychology of Southern California suburban land development.
“Photography at the Crossroads,” Perspectives Arts Newsmagazine,Arts Council of Placer County, January/February 2005; article on the dilemma facing the traditional photographer in a rapidly growing
digital world.
Light on Clay; Photographs of the Gladding, McBean Pottery, Self-published laser-printed monograph, being prepared for traditional publication..
Numerous technical and product-review articles in View Camera magazine, 1989-1998.
“From Esoteric to Fundamental: Redefining Basics,” Ilford Photo Instructor magazine, Spring 1995; article for instructors on teaching zone system fundamentals to beginners, pp. 8–9.
“Documentary Landscape: Humanist Propaganda?,” On the Wing, April 1988; guest column.
Editor for the following Grossmont College Gallery publications:
David Anderson: Sculpture Viewpoint: Ceramics, 1978
Patti Warashina: Ceramics Points: Jeff Laudenslager Sculpture
Garry Winogrand: Photographs Viewpoint: Ceramics, 1979
My Crimes: Victor Lance Henderson Helen Levitt: Color Photographs
Carol Shaw-Sutton: Crossing Over Viewpoint: Ceramics, 1980
Ben Lifson: Photographs Viewpoint: Ceramics, 1981
A Sourcebook for Intermediate Photography. Self-published textbook, currently out of print..
Publications (About)
Schenker, Heath (ed.), Picturing California’s Other Landscape: The Great Central Valley, Stockton and Berkeley, The Haggin Museum/Heyday Books, 1999. Exhibition catalogue.
Phillips, Sandra S. (et al.), Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1996. Exhibition catalogue.
“Sprawl,” Architecture + Design Forum; Volume 4, Number 2; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1996. Four photographs accompanying an essay on suburban sprawl by Aaron Betsky.
Kurutz, Gary F., “Violations of the Landscape: The California Photography of Gene Kennedy,” California State Library Foundation Bulletin, Number 32, July 1990; pp. 19–24.
Haag, Jan, “Gene Kennedy: Ravaged Landscapes,” View Camera magazine, March 1989; pp. 20–25.
“Portfolio: Photographs by Gene Kennedy,” Journal of American Photography, March 1985. Five photographs and short text, pp. 22–25.
Davis, Keith (ed.), The Lay of the Land; 20th Century Landscape Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1984. Exhibition catalogue.
Phillips, Donna-Lee, “Threats to the Rivers,” Artweek magazine, November 26, 1983. Exhibition review for Allusions to Paradise: A Southern California Survey, at San Francisco Camerawork.
