Ken DeRoux
16818 Ambaum Blvd. S.
Burien, WA 98148
(206) 601-6014
kenderoux@hotmail.com
The artist relocated to the Seattle area in 2009 after a long career in Alaska as a museum curator and painter. He and his wife, Sybil, traveled and lived in Turkey and France between 2006 and 2008. DeRoux graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1969 with a BFA in photography/film. He was manager of Canyon Cinema Filmmakers’Cooperative in the early 1970s and later was film curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He returned to his hometown of Juneau in 1978 where he worked at the Alaska State Museum and began painting.
EXHIBITIONS:
2016 Two-person show with Garreth Schuh, Burien Arts Gallery, Burien, WA
2015 Group show “The Moon is Free,” Arts West gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 Three-person show with Robert Dean, Diane Baxter, Burien Arts Gallery, Burien, WA
2014 40th Anniversary Group Exhibition. Juneau Arts & Humanities Council, Juneau, AK
2013 Invitational Group Exhibition, Burien Arts Gallery, Burien, WA (November)
2013 "Flashback: Photographs from the 60s," 2-person exhibit with Mark Daughhetee. Burien Arts Gallery, Burien,WA
2012 Washington State Legislature, Olympia. Three paintings on loan to local representative offices for session.
2011 “Art Brothers,” Ketchikan Area Arts Council, Ketchikan, AK
2008 “Alaska Positive 2008” (photograph) Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AK (traveling)
2008 “12x12,” Juneau-Douglas City Museum, Juneau, AK
2007 PONCHO Art Auction, Seattle. Recommended selection.
2007 “Form, Light, Shadow,” Group photographic exhibition, Susan Woltz Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 “Landscape Invitational” Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK
2005 Member Artist Exhibition, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
2005 “Fear,” group exhibit, Ruby Room, Juneau, AK
2005 “A Sense of Place” Univ. of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK
2004 Summer Invitational, Center for Contemporary Visual Art of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
2004 “Eros and Art” group exhibition, Juneau Arts and Humanities Council Gallery, AK
2005 “12 x 12,” Juneau-Douglas City Museum, Juneau, AK
2003 "The Ruskin Series" solo exhibit, D'Adamo/Woltz Gallery, Seattle WA
2003 "The Ruskin Series" solo exhibit, JAHC Gallery, Juneau, AK
2003 "Flashback: Photographs from the 60s," 2-person exhibit with Mark Daughhetee,
International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
2003 "New to the Museum" Museum of the North, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
2003 "Wetlands" invitational group exhibit, Pratt Museum, Homer, AK
2003 Gallery Invitational, Decker-Morris Gallery, Anchorage, AK
2003 "Art Against War" group exhibit, Empire Gallery, Juneau, AK
2003 “Glaciers” Juneau-Douglas City Museum, Juneau, AK
2003 "Eros and Art" group exhibit, JAHC Gallery, Juneau, AK
2002 "Documents: Images from Experience," Anchorage Museum of History and Art,
Anchorage, AK
2002 "Alaska Juried Works on Paper" Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer, AK
2002 "The Inner Landscape" Kenai Convention and Visitor's Center, Kenai, AK
2002 “29th All Alaska Juried Art Exhibition,” (Award winner), Anchorage Museum
of History and Art
2001 "Arctic Eyes" Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
2001 "8th Annual Invitational" Group show. Decker-Morris Gallery, Anchorage
2001 "Flashback" Photographs from the Sixties. With Mark Daughhetee at Juneau Arts
& Humanities Gallery
2001 "Off the Wall" group exhibition, Decker-Morris Gallery, Anchorage
2000 Solo Exhibition, Decker-Morris Gallery, Anchorage
2000 "Les Deux DeRoux" with brother Dan DeRoux at Juneau-Douglas City Museum
2000 “28th All-Alaska Juried Art Exhibition,” Anchorage Museum of History & Art
1980 -1999 More than 40 other solo and group art exhibits in Alaska, including solo exhibitions at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and the Alaska State Museum, Juneau.
WORK INCLUDED IN COLLECTIONS:
* Alaska State Museum
* Anchorage Museum of History and Art
* Museum of the North, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
* Alaska State Council on the Arts
* University of Alaska, Southeast
* Juneau-Douglas City Museum
* Key Bank, Juneau
* Morris Communications, Inc.
* Ketchikan Pioneers’ Home (Percent for Art Commission)
* Numerous private collections, Alaska, U.S., Europe
ART WORK FEATURED IN PUBLICATIONS:
* Visions of Alaska, Morris Communications, Augusta, GA 2003
* Painting Alaska, Kesler Woodward, Alaska Geographic, Vol.27 No. 3, 2000
* Icebreakers , Alaska ‘s Most Innovative Artists, Decker Art Services, Anchorage/
Univ. Washington Press, Seattle, 1999.
* The Artist and the American Landscape, John Driscoll, First Glance Books, Cobb,
CA, 1998.
* Beyond Description, M.B. Michaels, Sky High Publishing, Fairbanks, AK. 1995.
* A Sense of Wonder, Kesler Woodward, University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks,
Ak. 1995.
EDUCATION:
1969 Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Photography/Filmmaking, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA
1964 University of California, Berkeley.
AWARDS:
2003Connie Boochever Memorial Fellowship, Alaska Arts & Culture Foundation
1994Fellowship, Alaska State Council on the Arts
1993Artist Grant, Juneau Arts Council
1991Artist Grant, Juneau Arts and Humanities Council.