Please join us for the KSMoCA Visiting Artist Lecture Series, which is open to members of the public and students at Dr MLK Jr School.

Arnold J. Kemp is an artist with works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Tacoma Art Museum, The Schneider Museum of Art and the Portland Art Museum. He is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow and has also received awards and fellowships from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Art Matters Inc., Printed Matter, Inc., and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.  His work has been recently exhibited in Chicago at Iceberg Projects, in New York at May 68, in Mexico City at Biquini Wax EPS and in Portland at Fourteen 30 Contemporary. Kemp is the Dean of Graduate Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.