Ken Lerner

Age 6 -1st camera in my hands - thus began a lengthy (on and off for twenty plus years) , though in early years, haphazard, photographic study with my father (a well respected photographer with various prestigious magazines;
During various times I was his assistant in photographic shoots on location at - The White House, Washington DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art,  NYC; Fogg Museum, Harvard University; Yale University Library; multiple museums and private collections throughout Texas and New Mexico - a lengthy and very extensive photo-shoot of over 2 months for a book on the art of the Spanish Southwest; the Whitney Museum; Museum of Modern Art; Guggenheim Museum

University science major but took courses in photography with Minor White (previous student of Ansel Adams); and took animation course on the Oxberry Animation Camera with a noted animator Derek Lamb (his animations have been on the opening credits of BBC’s Mystery series broadcasts for over 50 years)

late '60'- 1st showing (group show - three artists) of multiple exposure photographs at Circle in the Square Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1970's- freelance photographer in NYC - clients included Columbia Records, High Times Magazine, Salsoul Records -  one man show of multiple exposure works at Caliban’s 1973

early '80s- freelance photographers Munich, Germany - clients included Madam Magazin (Munich); Du  Magazin (Zurich); Art Magazin (Hamburg); Jackie Fine Arts (NYC); Atelier du Leder (Zurich) - 1982 - one man show of multiple exposure works at Cafe Reitschule, Munich // also designed and fabricated a line of custom made women’s belts

late '80s - mid '90s - photographic artist NYC // 1989 - one man show of multiple exposure works, Peridance Center, NYC // 1991 - group show (4 artists) - Spectrum Gallery, Southampton, NY // 1991 - group show (2 artists) at a Long Island Library // 1992 - one man show - The Silver Swan, NYC // also designed and built models of over 10 experimental catamaran sailboats

mid 90's - mid 2000 teens- no photographic works during this time - had career in sales -

2015 - present - photographic fine artist exhibiting in several online galleries

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I started taking photographs when I was 6. Being the son of a renowned photographer, it was only natural for me to have a camera in my hands at an early age. I was not interested in photographing a real moment perfectly…I was interested in projecting an internal view of that moment, a subjective reality - in the early part of my career, this led me to make almost exclusively multiple exposure images, but in later years, using a combination of techniques of both painting and photography, I produce mostly abstract and geometric works of altered single exposures.

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