Kevin Sloan

Kevin Sloan is a Denver based painter working primarily with acrylic on canvas and occasionally drawings and paintings on paper.

Growing up in Des Moines, Iowa his early interest in art was nurtured by student classes at the Des Moines Art Center and in particular by their Artist in Residence, Frank Limone. It was clear upon high school graduation he would continue to study art in college.

He received a BFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art where he studied with Stephen Greene and Stanley Whitney. He continued his formal education at the University of Arizona studying with James G. Davis, where he received an MFA in Painting in 1984.

His restlessness and love of travel has led him to live and work in a wide variety of cities across the United States including San Francisco, New York City, New Orleans, Key West, FL and Santa Fe, NM. All these locales have had a lasting impact on his practice.

Sloan’s work is characterized by curiosity and bemusement toward the natural and human-made world. The often symbolic paintings are part of an ongoing inquiry into the relationship between the marvel of the natural world and the mundane and often blunt reality of the modern era. Recurring paired themes are fragility and s...

Master of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1984
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1981

Solo Exhibitions
2020 Naropa University, Cathedral, Boulder, CO
K Contemporary, Private Work and Outliers, Denver, CO
2018  California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks, A Collection of Rarities, Thousand Oaks, CA
Clark Gallery, Paradise, Lincoln MA 
K Contemporary, The Wanderer's Garden, Denver, CO
2016   Gardner Colby Gallery, A Delicate Balance, Naples, FL
2015   Clark Gallery, A Delicate Balance, Lincoln MA
           Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, An Artist and a Naturalist: John James Audubon and Kevin Sloan
2013   Ironton Gallery, The Naturalist’s Notebook, Denver, Co
           Clark Gallery, New Paintings, Lincoln, MA
           William Havu Gallery, Introducing Kevin Sloan, Denver, CO
2012   Richard J. Demato Fine Art, Kevin Sloan, New Paintings, Sag Harbor, NY
2011   Gardner Colby Gallery, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Naples, FL
          Gilman Contemporary, Modern Parables, Sun Valley, ID
2010   Gardner Colby Gallery, Menagerie, Naples, FL
2009   Gilman Contemporary, Strange Eden, Sun Valley, ID
2008   Gardner Colby Gallery, Dreams and Allegories, Naples, FL
2007   Lisa Sette Gallery, The Sacred Ordinary, Scottsdale, AZ
2005   Lisa Sette Gallery, Memories and Allegories, Scottsd...