Ed Kerns is an internationally exhibited American artist and academic whose works of painterly and digital imagery have been the subject of or have been included in more than forty solo exhibits and 150 group and collaborative exhibitions worldwide. Kerns studied with the noted Abstract-Expressionist painter, Grace Hartigan

Grace Hartigan

Grace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School in the 1950s.-Biography and early career:...

 and through the elder artist came to know and work with many artists of that generation including, Phillip Guston, Willem DeKooning, James Brooks

James Brooks

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, Ernest Briggs

Ernest Briggs

Ernest Briggs was an active participant in the later wave of Abstract Expressionism, the revolution in abstract painting that secured New York City's position as the art capital of the world in the post-World War II period.-Biography:...

, Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn was a well-known 20th century American painter. His early work is associated with Abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. His later work were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.-Biography:Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Jr...

 and Sam Francis

Sam Francis

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Kerns is the Eugene H. Clapp Professor of Art and Humanities at Lafayette College

Lafayette College

Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter,son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown and citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832...

 in Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton, Pennsylvania

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 where he has taught since 1980. Kerns collaborated with the poet Lee Upton

Lee Upton

Lee Upton is an American poet, fiction writer, literary critic, and a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.-Life:...

 on a book of poetry and images. In 1982 Kerns was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2008 "Word, City, Mind: A Universal Resonance," Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• 2007 "Word, City, Mind: A Universal Resonance," Muhlenberg College
  Muhlenberg College
  Muhlenberg College is a private liberal arts college located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is named for Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America.- History...
  
  , Allentown, PA
  Allentown, Pennsylvania
  Allentown is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is Pennsylvania's third most populous city, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and the 215th largest city in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 118,032 and is currently...
  
  
• 2005 "Ed Kerns, New Paintings," Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
• 2003 "Ed Kerns, Digital Images," Ahlum Gallery, Easton, PA
• 1997 "Ed Kerns, New Paintings," M-13 Gallery, New York, New York
• 1995 "Ed Kerns, Small Works: Project Room," M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
• 1994 "Ed Kerns, New Paintings," M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
• 1989 "Ed Kerns," William Paterson College, Ben Shahn Galleries, Wayne, New Jersey
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• 1987 "Ed Kerns," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1986 "Ed Kerns," Cedar Crest College
  Cedar Crest College
  Cedar Crest College is a private liberal arts women's college in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. During the 2006-2007 academic year, the college had 1,000 full-time and 800 part-time undergraduates and 85 graduate students...
  
  , Allentown, PA
• 1984 "Ed Kerns, Drawings," The Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
• 1983 "Ed Kerns, Paintings," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1982 "Ed Kerns, Recent Paintings," Morris Gallery, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
• 1981 "Ed Kerns, Recent Paintings," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, New York
• 1980 "Ed Kerns, Paintings," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• "Ed Kerns, Paintings," VanWickle Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• 1979 "Ed Kerns," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1978 "Ed Kerns, New Paintings," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1977 "Ed Kerns, Paintings," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• "Ed Kerns, New York," Suzette Schochet Gallery, Newport, RI
• 1976 "Ed Kerns, Paintings," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1975 "Ed Kerns," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1974 "Ed Kerns, Paintings," Rosa Esman gallery, New York, NY
• "Ed Kerns," A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY
• 1972 "Ed Kerns," A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY

COLLABORATIONS

• 2003 "Evolution"- Ed Kerns and Tom DiGiovanni, Main Stage Theatre of Williams Performing Arts Center, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• 1991 “A Collaboration of Poetry and Images,” Ed Kerns and Lee Upton, University Science Center, Philadelphia, PA
• 1990 “A Collaboration of Poetry and Images,” Ed Kerns and Lee Upton, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
• “A Collaboration of Poetry and Images,” Ed Kerns and Lee Upton, Lafayette College Art Gallery, Easton, PA; Open Space Art Gallery, Allentown, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2007 "Hot Topic: Meditations on Global Warming," The Arts Center Gallery at Germantown Academy, Fort Washington, PA
• "Neuroscience and the Artistic Process," Muhlenberg College Center for the Arts, Allentown, PA
• 2006 "Hypertexturalities:Architectures and Morphologies," Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY curated by Lee Klein
• "The Mind of Nature: Structures and Processes," Taipei Culture Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
• "Ed Kerns, Lew Minter, Jim Toia Visiting American Artists," Taipei Artists Village, Taipei, Taiwan
• 2004 "Synthesis: Experiments in Collaboration" Axel Raben Gallery, New York, NY
• 2003 "Synthesis: Experiments in Collaboration," Lafayette College, Williams Visual Arts Building, Grossman Gallery, Easton, PA
• "Thinking in Line: A Survey of Contemporary Drawing," University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
• "Hyper Texture: Fabian Marcaccio
  Fabian Marcaccio
  Fabian Marcaccio is an Argentine born artist living and working in the United States whose trans-genre works including "Paintants" and '"Draftants" have been exhibited worldwide....
  
  , David Reed, Pia Fries, Ed Kerns, and Roy Lerner," The Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY curated by Lee Klein
  Lee Klein
  Lee Klein is a poet, curator, essayist, and writer on the arts.-Career:He is the author of the "World's Biggest Shopping Mall Poem" about the taking over of reality by consumer culture...
  
  
• "Michael Goldberg, Grace Hartigan, Mary Frank, and Ed Kerns," Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
• 2002 "Gallery Group Exhibit: Ed Kerns, Phoebe Adams, Grace Hartigan, Leon Golub, and George Herms," Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
• "Post-Systemic Art," Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
• 2001 “Lafayette College Faculty Exhibit,” Easton, PA
• 2000 “Howard Scott Gallery, Artist” New York, NY
• 1999 “Howard Scott Gallery”, New York, NY
• 1998 “Faculty Plus,” State Theatre Gallery, Easton, PA
• Ruffino de Tamayo Print Museum, Mexico
• 1997 “Gallery Artists,” M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
• 1996 “White,” An exhibition of white paintings, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
• 1993 “Collaboration, Kerns, Kessler, Greenberg, Boothe and Hassay,” Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• 1992 “Ed Kerns, Small Works,” Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA
• “Friends Seminary Benefit,” with Stella, Sultan, and others, New York, NY
• 1991 New Arts Program Group Exhibit, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
• “Mayfair,” Muhlenberg College, Center for the Arts, Allentown, PA
• 1989 “Summer Exhibit,” Villanova University Art Gallery, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
• 1988 “Summer Group,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1987 “Art Against Aids Exhibition,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• Group Exhibition, Lehigh University, Wilson Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
• 1986 Group Exhibition, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1985 “July Group Exhibition,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Fall Exhibition,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Summer Exhibition,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1984 “Gallery Group,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Faculty Exhibition,” Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• “New Abstract Painting,” Joint Exhibition, Lafayette and Muhlenberg Colleges, Easton and Allentown , PA
• “Group Exhibition,” Karl Sterner Gallery, Easton, PA
• 1983 “Gallery Artists,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Visiting Artists Exhibition,” Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
• 1982 “Contemporary American Art,” The Commodities Corporation, Princeton, NJ
• “Tenth Anniversary Exhibition of Gallery Artists, The Russian Revolution to Post Modern,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Pennsylvania Artists,” Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
• “Chicago, Art Expo,” Rosa Esman Pavilion, Chicago, IL
• “American Abstract Painting of the 80’s,” Randolph Macon College, Lynchburg, VA
• 1981 “Visiting New York Artists,” Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
• “Gallery Artists,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Art in Pursuit of a Smile,” Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
• “Artists Make Architecture,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1980 “American Painting,” Mueso Civico e Gallerie D’arte Moderna, Udine, Italy
• “Gallery Artists,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1979 “Structure and Painting,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Summer Summary,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Collage,” Goddard Riverside Gallery, New York, NY
• 1978 “Graffiti,” San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
• 1977 “Small Master Works,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Skin,” Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
• “American Artists,” Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
• “Art of the 60’s and 70’s,” Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
• “Summer Show,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, New York
• 1976 “The Material Dominant,” Penn State University Museum of Art, University Park, PA
• “American Artists,” F.A.I.C., Grand Palis, Paris, France
• “Large Works,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Project Rebuild,” Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
• “Contemporary American Painting,” Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
• “Works on Paper,” Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
• “Gallery Group,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Group Show,” Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
• “Small Master Works,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• “Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Gallery, Raleigh, NC
• 1975 “New York Artists,” Etienne De Causans, Tableaux Contemporains, Paris, France
• “Gallery Artists,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1974 “Group Show,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• 1973 “Image of Movement,” Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
• “Gallery Group,” A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY
• “Reflection,” Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
• 1972 “New York Artists,” Jacobs Ladder Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• “Works on Paper,” Herter Hall Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
• 1971 Larry Aldrich Associates, New York, NY
• “Today,” Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
• “New Talent,” A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY
• “The Baltimore Museum of Art, New Talent,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD