Jerry Kunkel

Jerry Kunkel received his MFA in painting from Southern Illinois University in 1968 and began teaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1969. He was Chair of the Department of Fine Arts (UCB) from 1978 -1993 and Interim Director of the Film Studies Program from 1993-95.

He was awarded a solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum and exhibited his art at Robischon Gallery and Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art. He was commissioned to produce two billboards in KC atop the Missouri Bank Crossroads Branch, and was part of the Artists Through Architecture (Charlotte Street Foundation).

Other exhibitions of note (group and solo) include the Denver Biennial of the Americas, Andrea Swhwartz Gallery (S.F.), Mizel Center of the Arts and Humanities, the Joslyn Museum, a number of times at the Denver Art Museum, Sebastian-Moore Gallery in Denver, Ginny Williams Photography (Denver), Martha Jackson Gallery (NYC), Diverse Works (Houston), Alternative Museum (NYC), Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Yellowstone Art Center, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, National Collection of Fine Arts (Washington D.C.), San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, Seattle Art Museum, Sweeney Center in Santa Fe, St. Charles on Wazee Gallery in Denver, Gargoyle Gallery...