Biography
Kes Zapkus (b. Lithuania 1938 - as a US citizen) studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1960) and Syracuse University (1962). He lived in Paris between 1962-1965 and in New York City since 1965. He has exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Hirshhorn Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beunignen, Rotterdam, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville , M.I.T., Cambridge, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Morgan Library and Museum, NYC. Significant exhibitions include: Gres Gallery, Chicago 1962, Six Americans, Paris 1964, Stable Gallery 1968, Paula Cooper 1971-79, John Weber 1979-89, and retrospectives at Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh 1981 and National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania 2014. A comprehensive bilingual monograph Kestutis Zapkus was published in 2014.
