Ken Lerner

A Note About My Artwork Classification - Since I am now producing a large number of digital artworks as well as photographic artworks, I wanted to clarify how I categorize them. If an image starts as a file produced by light from the real world passing through a lens, I categorize these artworks as photography, no matter how much I may alter these files or use just microscopic snippets of them. But if the artwork file starts just as a file made by me on my computer, then these artworks I classify as digital artworks.

IMAGES LISTED AS NOT FOR SALE -
if you are interested in any works currently listed as not for sale, let me know by clicking the "Contact Curator" button at the bottom of my page under the "COMMISSION KEN LERNER" box. I can reactivate/produce these artworks on request, and will quote size/prices in my response to you. [The edition size remains, of course, exactly as listed in the "not for sale" listing]

Took photography courses w/ Minor White (student Ansel Adams) & animation courses w/ Derek Lamb a noted animation artist

1970's & '80s - ongoing, though intermittent, study with my father a highly regarded photographer for several prestigious magazines. Was his assistant at location shoots at Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC); MoMA (NYC); Whitney Museum (NYC); Fogg Museum (Harvard, Cambridge Mass); Yale University Library (New Haven, CT); the White House; throughout Texas & New Mexico for a book on the art of the Spanish Southwest

Caliban's, NY (1973)
Cafe Reitschule, Munich (1982)
Peridance Center, NY (1989)
Spectrum Gallery, Southampton, NY (1991)

Awards -
Luxembourg Art Prize - Certificate of Artistic Achievement 2022 (awarded in 2023)
Luxembourg Art Prize - Certificate of Merit 2021
Luxembourg Art Prize - Certificate of Merit 2020
Luxembourg Art Prize - Certificate of Merit 2017