Shirley Kaneda

Shirley Kaneda (born 1951) is an artist, professor, and writer on art, based in New York City.

Early life

Shirley Kaneda is an American artist who was born in Tokyo to Korean-born parents; Korean, Japanese, and English were spoken in her childhood home. She earned a BFA at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, in 1976 and has continued to live and work in New York.[1]

Work

Shirley Kaneda is an abstract painter.[2] Her large oil paintings on canvas have been described as "neon-hued, wavy, biomorphic,"[3] and "all about the state of liquidity."[4] In discussing her own work, Kaneda once explained, "I think of myself as continuing the process of demystifying the ideation of values, such as the heroic, the aggressive, the optical, and the rational, that used to be associated with the masculine....I use my work to metaphorically promote such nonheroic themes as the decorative, beauty, fluidity, diversity, and so on."[5]

In 1999 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow in the category of Fine Arts;[6] she has also earned fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Elizabeth Foundation. Her works have been exhibited in galleries across North America, Europe, and Australia.[7]

Kaneda has taught art at Virginia Commonwealth University as the Thalheimer Faculty Fellow/assistant professor (1999–2001), at Claremont Graduate University (2001–2003), and since 2003 as Professor at Pratt Institute in New York.

Kaneda has also been a contributing editor to BOMB magazine.[8]

References

  1. ↑ David Clarkson, "Interview with Shirley Kaneda," BOMB Magazine 51(Spring 1995): pp. 16-18.
  2. ↑ Andrew Benjamin, "The Relation of Interruption: Recent Work of Shirley Kaneda (1998)," Talking Painting: Dialogues with Twelve Contemporary Abstract Painters, ed. David Ryan (Psychology Press 2002): pp. 118-136.
  3. ↑ Michaël Amy, "Shirley Kaneda at Danese," Art in America (May 2008): p. 188.
  4. ↑ Laura Cumming, "Underwater: Art Review," The Observer (3 April 2010): p. 39.
  5. ↑ Mira Schor, Emma Amos, Susan Bee, Johanna Drucker, María Fernández, Amelia Jones, Shirley Kaneda, Helen Molesworth, Howardena Pindell, Collier Schorr, and Faith Wilding, "Contemporary Feminism: Art Practice, Theory, and Activism--An Intergenerational Perspective," ART Journal 58(4)(Winter 1999): p. 19.
  6. ↑ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  7. ↑ Grace Glueck, "Art in Review: Shirley Kaneda," New York Times (March 2, 2001).
  8. ↑ David Clarkson, "Interview with Shirley Kaneda," BOMB Magazine 51(Spring 1995): pp. 16-18.


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