Bio & CV
Bio
Kent Manske creates images and symbols to inquire, process, manage, convey and assign meaning to ideas about human existence. He uses printmaking and book publishing processes to create one-of-a-kind and limited-edition works on paper. Manske has a BFA from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a co-founder of PreNeo Press in Redwood City, California. His work can be found in public and private collections including the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums and the Oakland Museum of California.
CV
Born: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Home: Redwood City, California
Education: MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990; BFA, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1982
Employment: Retired, Foothill College, Professor of Art, 1990–2015
Upcoming Exhibitions
Kent Manske, solo exhibition, Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis. January 9–March 19, 2025
Exhibitions
2024
an art life: kent manske & nanette wylde, Art Bias Gallery, San Carlos, California
What’s Cookin’: Art about food, culture and community, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California
Kent Manske: Making Sense, NY2CA Gallery, Benicia, California (3.21–4.28)
Resonance in Print, Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, California (4.21–5.18)
2023
Kent Manske: Nature’s Dilemma, Palo Alto Riconada Library Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Biophelia: Humans and the Natural World, Works / SJ, San Jose, California
Westward Bound II, Sparks Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Printed & Stitched, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, California
Earth, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California
Printed & Stitched, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, California
Truth: Artist Books and Broadsides, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, California
EcoArt: Envisioning Strategies and Solutions, 1337 Gallery, San Rafael, California
2022
University of Pennsylvania, Fisher Fine Arts Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
HBC50, Skylight Gallery, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California
Textural, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, California
New Work, Radius Gallery Annex, Santa Cruz, California
Shadow and Light, Arion Press Gallery, San Francisco, California
Pathways: Mapping, navigation, wanderlust and borders, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, California
2021
Extraction: Response to a Changing Environment, San Chez Art Center, Pacifica, California
Textural, Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, California
Searching for Meaning, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, California
Content, Artery Gallery, Davis California
2020
Fallout: Art in this Time, Indiana University- Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana
Bird, Nest, Nature, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California
You Are The Tree, Redwood City Art Kiosk, Redwood City, California. Commissioned by Fung Collaborative Projects
First Impressions, Davis Art Center, Davis, California
2019
Eco Echo: Unnatural Selection, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, California
Perception of Place, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, California
All Cells from Cells : Kent Manske, Mohr Gallery, Mountain View, California
Regional Collective, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, California
California Centered, Merced Multicultural Arts Center, Merced, California
Traditional Techniques: Contemporary Prints, The Barn Gallery at Yolo Arts, Woodland, California
Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California
Print It!, Village Theatre Art Gallery, Danville California
2018
Thinking Outside the Frame, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, Californina
ClimART, Cannery Galleries, San Francisco, California
Eco Echo: Art and Environment Laboratory, ARTLAB Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Food Glorious Food, The Art Center-Highland Park, Highland Park, Illinois
Bibliophoria V, Sebastopol Center for Arts, Sebastopol, California
Points of Departure, Bridge ARTSpace Gallery, Richmond, California
Bookworks, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California
Eco Echo: Unnatural Selection, WORKS San José, San José, California
2017
Pressing On – Contemporary Printmaking, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
Art of Gastronomy II, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, California
Celebrate!, Anderson Academic Commons, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Found Object / Readymade, Branner Spangenberg Gallery, Redwood City, California
2016
Vote your Conscious, Works/San Jose, San Jose, California
Anne & Mark’s Art Party, San Jose, California
Home, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, Cupertino, California
Look! Book Arts, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, California
Nothing is Here; DaDa is its Name, Branner Spangenberg Gallery, Redwood City, California
Wanderlust, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Community Connections, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon
Witness & Memory, George Mason University, School of Art Gallery, Fairfax, Virginia
2015
Al~Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, Idaho Center for the Book, Boise, Idaho
Elemental: Water, Earth, Air and Fire, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, Cupertino, California
Mooncakes, Churros, and Cherry Pie, Eurphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, California
Entry Sign Sculptures, Public Art Commission, San Mateo County, California
2014
Absence and Presence: A Printmaking Response, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California
Under Pressure, 1890 Bryant Street Gallery, San Francisco, California
Printing the Bay Area, 1337 Gallery, San Raphael, California
Bookworks, Main Library- San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California
Northwest Animation Festival, Portland, Oregon
Undercurrents, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, California
Wabi Sabi, Alterspace, San Francisco, California
Animated Type Showcase 2014, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Cornered, University of Utah, Marriot Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Deep Reading, Eurphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, California
2013
DIY (Visits Chicago): Photographers and Books, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, Illinois
The Politics of _, Press Gallery, North Adams, Massachusetts
Character Profile, Root Division, San Francisco, California
Glyph: Text in Art, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, California
Earth · Science · Art, United States Geological Survey headquarters, Reston, Virginia
Cross-Polination, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, California
2012
Posted, Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburn, New Jersey
Earth · Science · Art, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, California
DYAD, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, California
2011
The Asian Connection: Art in a Global Age, Asian Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson, Maryland
Bookworks, Main Library- San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California
Elemental, Krause Center for Innovation, Los Altos Hills, CaliforniaBenefit, WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, California
2010
Art Publishing Now: Bay Area, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
Wild Culture: Ecological Perspectives, Roy C. Moore Art Gallery, Gainesville State College, Oakwood, Georgia
Once uon a Time, Krause Center for Innovation, Los Altos Hills, California
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
Bay Area Book Artists, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, California
Identity, Roy C. Moore Art Gallery, Gainesville State College, Oakwood, Georgia
The Mythical State of Jefferson,The Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon
Show and Bestow, Clarence Ward Art Library, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
FLAT Journal, Chicago, Illinois. January 2010
2009
None of the Above, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Visual Communication Quarterly, Volume 16, Number 3, July – September 2009
Books as Art as Community, Norton Gallery, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
Polyglot: Expressive Media in Book Arts, Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, California
Conversations, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library at San Jose State University, San Jose, California
2008
Kent Manske, Vino Locale Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Kent Manske, Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
The Art of Democracy, Booksmart Studio Gallery, Rochester, New York
Good Buy: Cruel World, Space 47, San Jose, California
Art and Politics ‘08, The Showroom Gallery at Hub-Bub, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Inscribing Meaning: Context of Text in Visual Art, GCSU Museum Focus Gallery, Milledgeville, Georgia
Meaning Matters: Projects from PreNeo Press, The Humanities Center Gallery, Chico, California
Peace & Good Will, Half Moon Bay Library, Half Moon Bay, California
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
2007
Meaning Maker, Corporate Art Expo 07, The Lab, San Francisco, California
Conceptually Bound 3, University Art Gallery, Chico State University, Chico, California
Moving Cultures ( . . . all over the map), Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, California
Good & Evil, KCI Gallery, Los Altos Hills, California
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
SIGGRAPH 2007, SIGGRAPH Gallery, San Diego, California
2006
Launch: Projects by PreNeo Press, Krause Center for Innovation Gallery, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California
Mitch LaPlante, Kent Manske, Fritz Rauh, Unai San Martin, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, California
The Art of the Book, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, California
Bound to Inspire, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, California
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
2005
Kent Manske, Vino Locale Gallery, Palo Alto, California
The Encouraging Force of Nature, Coyote Point Museum, San Mateo, California
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
Shared Passions, Euphrat Museum, Cupertino, California (curatorial)
2004
Touch my Book, Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, California
Publish or Perish, Open Space Resource Centre, Victoria, British Columbia
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
A Book in the Hand, Diablo Valley College Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California
2003
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
SIGGRAPH 2003, SIGGRAPH Gallery, San Diego, California
2002
Inside View, The Pond, San Francisco, California
Conceptually Bound 2, Coyote Gallery, Butte Glenn Community College, California
Reading Room, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California
Food Chain, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, New Jersey
2001
Books as Art: Art as Books, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California
Conceptually Bound, 1078 Gallery, Chico, California
2000
Making Meaning: Banners & Icons, Humanities Center Gallery, CSU Chico, California
Radius 2000, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California
The Art of Zines, Gallery AD, San Jose, California
Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
Book Nook: Interactive Artist’s Books, WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, California
1999
The Archeology of Being, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA Ruth Eckland, Nanette Wylde, Kent Manske
The Figure in Gravity, City Gallery, San Jose City College, San Jose, California Todd Gieseler, Kent Manske
A Good Read: Selections from the Book Arts, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, California
ArtTech@West Valley, West Valley Community College Gallery, Saratoga, California
Artists Books, Art from Books, Artist’s Sketchbooks, Sunnyvale Art Center, California
1998
Serious Play in Search of Meaning, Skyline College Gallery, Pacifica, California Nanette Wylde, Kent Manske
Art in the Digital Age, City Gallery, San Jose City College, San Jose, California
Narrative Structures, ART-TECH Gallery, San Jose, California
1997
Print Invitational, Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia
Digital Art, Los Altos Public Library Gallery, Los Altos, California
Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri
Creativity & the Computer, Danville Fine Arts Gallery, Danville, California
1996
Art on a Roll– Digital Expressions, Nisat Art Gallery, Tasmania, Australia
Printmaking & Digital Media, City Gallery, San Jose, California
Kaleidoscope Reborn, SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, California
Book Arts 96, Seattle Arts Festival, Bumbershoot Book Arts, Seattle, Washington
Published Works, Foothill College Library Gallery, Los Altos Hills, California
Bay Arts, San Mateo County Art Gallery, Belmont, California
Light Let Loose, Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, Illinois
Oregon Book Biennial, Oregon Book Arts Guild, Forest Grove, Oregon
Body Parts, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
Printmaking Biennial, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia
Arternatives, Visual Arts Forum Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California
Works On/Of Paper, Santa Cruz Center for the Arts, Santa Cruz, California
Computer Art Invitational, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington
Davis Art Center, Davis Art Center, Davis California
Pulp 96, University of Oregon, La Grande, Oregon
Gallery House Exhibition, Gallery House, Palo Alto, California
1995
I to Eye, solo exhibition, Student Union Gallery, San Francisco State University, California
SIGGRAPH Traveling Exhibition, Internationally Traveling Exhibition
Art in the Digital Age, The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, California
National Artist-Made Books Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, California
1994
Alternative Processes: From Pixels to Paper, Center for Creative Imaging, Camden, Maine
Pixels and Perspectives, Digital Pond Gallery, San Francisco, California
Kaleidoscope, Bayfont Gallery, San Francisco, California
Works on Paper, Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, California
30th Annual, Fine Arts Institute of the San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, California
SIGGRAPH 94, SIGGRAPH Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Being on Earth, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, California
Computer Art Invitational, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington
National Artist-Made Books Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, California
1993
Digital Media Emerges as Art, Ops Art Gallery, San Francisco, California
Digital Perspectives in Art & Architecture, Contract Design Center, San Francisco, California
Inspirit, Palo Alto Civic Center Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Avenue of the Arts, Manor House Gallery, Belmont, California
1992
Bay Arts 1992, Arts Council of San Mateo, San Mateo, California
Picture Yourself Here, Citadel Gallery, San Jose, California
Vivid Images, John Hopkins International Conference Center, San Francisco, California
1991
Vivid Images, Bonaventure Conference Center, Los Angeles, California
1990
Symbolic Playground, Gallery 1633, Chicago, Illinois
Prints & Mixed-media Monographics, solo exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Art of Now, Gallery 1633, Chicago, Illinois
Media Survey, Erie Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1(W)9(O)9(W)O, Gallery 1633, Chicago, Illinois
Intimate Spaces, Lynn Rosenburg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Fax Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
A Chip Off The New Block, Gallery II, Chicago, Illinois
Creative People Awards, Erie Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Collections
SFMOMA Library, Special Collections, San Francisco, California, 2024
Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2024
University of Richmond, Boatwright Memorial Library Book Arts Collection, Richmond, Virginia, 2024
San Jose State University, King Library, Special Collections, 2022
San Francisco Public Library, Main Library Special Collections, San Francisco, California, 2022
Nevada Museum of Art, Center for Art + Environment, 2021
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 2019
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2018
University of California, Davis, California, 2018
Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2018
Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, 2017
University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Special Collections, 2017
University of California, Santa Cruz, McHenry Library, Special Collections, 2017
Mary K. Austin Collection, San Francisco, California, 2015
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland California, 2015
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 2014
Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, California, 2014
The Hall of Awa Japanese Handmade Paper, Awagami Factory, Tokushima, Japan, 2014
Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, Illinois, 2013
Zucherman Museum of Art, SCGI Archives, Kennesaw, Georgia, 2009
Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, 2008
Anno Domini, San Jose, 2000
Works/San Jose, San Jose, 1998
Texas A&M University, College Station, 1998
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1990
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1989
Bibliotheque National, Paris, France, 1989
Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, 1989
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois, 1989
New Photographics, Central Washington University, Washington,1989
University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona 1989
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, 1989
Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University, College Station, 1987
William James Convention Center, College Station, 1987
University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire, Eau Claire, 1982
Commissions:
You are the Tree, 2020
Redwood City Art Kiosk. You are the Tree commissioned by Fung Collaborative Projects and funded by the Redwood City Improvement Association and the Redwood City Arts Commission, 2019
Public Art
Entry Sign Sculptures, 2016
Commissioned & funded by San Mateo County for North Fair Oaks, Unincorporated San Mateo County.
Books
Entanglements: A curated collection of contemporary culture, Hunger Button Books, 2023
Kent Manske: A Survey, Hunger Button Books, 2014
500 Handmade Books, Volume Two, Lark Books, 2013
1,000 Artists’ Books: Exploring the Book as Art, Quarry Books, 2012
Printmaking and Mixed Media, Interweave Books, 2009
Catalogs
EcoArt: Envisioning Strategies and Solutions, Art Works Downtown, 2023
Extraction: Response to the Changing World Environment, California Society of Printmakers, 2021
EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, Codex Foundation, 2020
Regional Collective, California Society of Printmakers, The Janet Turner Print Museum, 2019
Thinking Outside the Frame, California Society of Printmakers, New Museum Los Gatos, 2018
Journals
The California Printmaker, Changing Geers, California Society of Printmakers, 2023 Article
Mid American Print Council Journal, Tipping Point, 2021
FLAT Journal, Chicago, Illinois. January 2010
Visual Communication Quarterly, Volume 16, Number 3, July – September 2009
Reviews
San Mateo Daily Journal, You are the Tree, February 2020
Palo Alto Weekly, You are the Tree, February 2020
Palo Alto Weekly, An Open Book, October 2009
Artweek, Moving Cultures at the Eurphrate Museum of Art, January 2008
Artweek, Corporate Art Expo ’07’ at The Lab, June 2007
Palo Alto Daily, Manske Inaugural Artist, April 2005
Daily News, Manske, Setterlund & Holloway, March 2005
San Jose Mercury News, Tactile Texts, July 204
Artweek, Inside View at Pond, April 2002
Artweek, Conceptually Bound at 1078 Gallery, June 2001
Chico News and Review, Page Turners at 1078 Gallery, April 2001
Palo Alto Weekly, A Spiritual Showcase: Radius 2000 spotlights two local artists, May 2000
San Mateo County Times, Manske, Stinson in Radius 2000, May 2000
MacWorld, Expert Graphics, June 1995
Interviews
Fallout: Art in this Time, Indiana University Bloomington- Grunwald Gallery, 2020
CSMA, 2019
Whirligig, 2009
Awards
California Society of Printmakers Artist Residency Award, June 2020
The Abby Awards, Silicon Valley Arts & Business Awards, Arts Council Silicon Valley, May 2010
ARTSHIFT- San Jose, October 2008
Residencies
In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma, California, June 2020
Affiliations
California Society of Printmakers
Southern Graphics Council International
Mid American Print Council
San Francisco Center for the Book
Arts Redwood City
Culture Collective North Fair Oaks