Biography
Ken Aptekar (b. Detroit, Michigan, USA 1950) received his BFA at the University of Michigan, then moved to Brooklyn in 1973 to complete an MFA at Pratt Institute (1975). Recent exhibitions have been at the Bibliotheque Bussy-Rabutin in Autun, France (2019-20); St.-Annen Museum in Lübeck, Germany (2016) where Nachbarn (Neighbors) occupied three floors of the museum with paintings with text, silverpoint drawings, and video all based upon medieval altarpieces in the St-Annen Museum’s collection; Victoria & Albert Museum in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery (London); the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC); Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY); Centro da Cultura Judaica (Sao Paolo, Brazil); Musée Robert Dubois-Corneau (Brunoy, France); Espace d’Art Contemporain Camille Lambert (Juvisy, France); The New Museum (NY); Douglas Cooley Gallery at Reed College, Portland, OR; Palmer Museum at Penn State; Cummer Museum (Jacksonville, FL), the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, and the Elaine Jacob Gallery at Wayne State University in Detroit. In 2012 Aptekar’s work was the subject of a survey exhibition, Ken Aptekar: Look Again at the Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Massachusetts.