Ken Fandell is an artist and educator who lives and works in Los Angeles. For over thirty years he has centered photography within a multi-dimensional art practice that encompasses drawing, sculpture, animation, video, and language. He has been referred to as a conceptualist, a formalist, and a romantic. He is known for pieces derived from sets of images that question time and space, the nature of mark making, sculptural form, and photographic seeing. He embraces haptic hands-on practices (drawing, painting, sculpture) alongside more familiar and quotidian technologies, such as the camera and the computer, in a way that values multiple mediums to create poetic works of art.
He has exhibited nationally and internationally at diverse venues (from artist run galleries to major museums). He has received awards from the Tiffany Foundation and Artadia. He has taken part in residencies in Austria, Ireland, and the United States. As important as his studio work is his teaching. Formerly the chair of the photography department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he is currently Professor of Art and the Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson Chair in the Arts and Humanities at Harvey Mudd College. He has an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, studied at the University of California at Santa Barbara and has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He runs marathons, surfs, is a husband to an incredible artist, and a father to an amazing daughter. These things are as important to his art making, teaching and life as anything else.
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