KEVIN HORAN

Kevin Horan is an artist based in Langley, Washington, USA. He is working on projects which look at animals as people, people as animals, and the planet as a very small place. His pictures are reality-based, and he enjoys finding the amazing revealed in the ordinary. His work from Chattel was selected for the Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 in 2014.

A recovering photojournalist, Horan has published his work in The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, LIFE, U.S. News & World Report, National Geographic,  and numerous other magazines and books.  Horan based himself in Chicago 1976-2006 and Whidbey Island since 2006, with assignments ranging from presidential campaigns to small-town life in Russia to development issues in the Amazon to following a dollar bill for a week for LIFE Magazine. He was a presenter at Ampersand Live at Town Hall Seattle in November, 2016; Artist in Residence, Glacier National Park, September, 2004; staff photographer for Chicago In The Year 2000; staff photographer for the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times, 1977-1981. He received a degree in journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Exhibits:

Chattel, EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT, July 2017

Chattel, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN, June 2017

Landscapes of Life and Death group show, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM, May 2017

Chattel, Edition One with Globe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, May 2017

Chattel, Kinescope Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 2016

Bestiary group show, Brackenwood Gallery, Langley, WA, Oct. 2016

Chattel, Camera Work Gallery, Portland, OR, Aug. 2016

Critters group show, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX, June 2016

2016 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, April 7, 2016 - March 31, 2017

Houston Center for Photography 2016 Print Auction, Sophie No. 1

Critical Mass Top 50 group show, GuatePhoto, Antigua, Guatemala, Nov. 2015

Black & White Director's Award, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO, July - Aug. 2015

Katrina Steps, Sink or Swim slide show night, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA, April 2015

Art to Zoo group show, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Sep. 2014 - Jan. 2015

Farm & Table, Brackenwood Gallery, Langley, WA, Oct. 2014

Deer With Coyotes, Kellicutt International Juried Photo Show, Half Moon Bay, CA, July 2014

Journeys, Brackenwood Gallery, Langley, WA, March 2014

BETA 09, Ballarat International Foto Biennale (online), June 2014

Meat Man, Patti Gilford Fine Arts, Chicago, Jan. - March 2004

Street Census, CityFiles Gallery, Evanston, IL, Dec., 2002 - May, 2003

You Are Here, Chicago Cultural Center, Jan. - March, 2001

Our Town: Chicago In The Year 2000, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Oct. 2000 

Anthropology & Documentary group show, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, July-Sep., 2000

The Mother Road: Route 66, Festival Scoop, Angers, France, Nov. 2000

Latin America: Pride of the People, Stolen Buick Gallery, Chicago, Oct. 1998

Black-and-White Works, Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Oct. 1980

Recognition:

Review Santa Fe, juried portfolio reviews, Santa Fe, NM, Oct. 2017

Ampersand Live presenter, Town Hall Seattle, Nov. 10, 2016

Review Santa Fe, juried portfolio reviews, Santa Fe, NM, Nov. 2016

Critical Mass Top 50, 2014

PDN Faces finalist, July 2010

Public Collections: 

"Street Census" (four works), OHSU, Portland, OR

“Sydney No. 3,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art

“Sophat Sar and Rukia Aweis,” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2008

“Street Census,” The Comer Archive of City 2000, University of Illinois at Chicago

“My Friend Art,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

“Bowlful of Sky,” National Park Service Collection, 2005