Ken Price
Ken Price
Born 1935 Los Angeles, CA
Resides in Taos, NM
Education
1959 New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, MFA
1957 Los Angeles County Art Institute
1956 University of Southern California, BFA
Studied at the Chounard Art Institute
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Ken Price: Works from the late 80's, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Ken Price: Prints and Ceramics 1970-2005, Gemini G.E.L., New York, NY
Ken Price: Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Ken Price: New Work, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Ken Price: Sculpture and Drawings 1962-2006, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
Early Cups and Related Works on Paper, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Ken Price: Works on Paper, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Ken Price: Small Scale Sculpture, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Ken Price: Sculpture from 2004, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
2004 Ken Price Sculpture and Drawings 1994-2004, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
Ken Price Works on Paper, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
Ken Price: Recent Work, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
2003 Ken Price, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Ken Price: New Work, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Small is Beautiful, University Art Museum, Cal State Long Beach, CA
Ken Price, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
2001 Ken Price: New Work, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY
Ken Price: New Work, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Parazette & Price Material Morph, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Recent Sculpture, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
Ken Price: Recent Drawings, Off Main Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2000 Lumps, Bumps, Eggs and Specimens, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY
1999 Ken Price: Recent Work, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY
James Kelly Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1998 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Ken Price: Sculpture, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Biomorphic Abstraction, Curt Marcus Gallery New York, NY
1997 L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
1996 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1995 Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA (catalog)
1994 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Harwood Foundation Museum of the University of New Mexico, Taos, NM
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1992 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (catalog)
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1991 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Sena West Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1989 The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO (catalog)
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Georges Lavrov Gallery, Paris, France
1987 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Willard Gallery, New York, NY
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Willard Gallery, New York, NY
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Willard Gallery, New York, NY
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Willard Gallery, New York, NY
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1980 Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Hansen, Fuller, Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Willard Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, NM
1976 The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974 Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, England
Willard Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA
1971 David Whitney Gallery, New York, NY
Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Neuendorf, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, Germany
1970 Kasmin Gallery, London, England
Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1969 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1968 Kasmin Gallery, London, England
1964 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1961 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1960 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Dichromatic, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Josef Albers / Ken Price, Brooke Alexander Gallery
2008 The City: Works on Paper from the Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Alliance, doART Beijing, China
The Alliance, doART Seoul, Korea
"Las Vegas Collects Contemporary", Las Vegas Contemporary Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
2007 Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, NY
Sculpture, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Sensuality in the Abstract, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Los Angeles: 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2006 Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Brioda Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2005 Wilder, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2004 A Secret History of Clay – From Gauguin to Gormley, Tate Museum,
London, England (catalog)
2003 L.A.'s Finish Fetish, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Materials, Metaphor & Narratives: Work by Six Contemporary Artists
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Contemporary Art/Taos, Harwood Museum, Taos, NM (catalog)
Rebels in Clay. Peter Voulkos and the Otis Group, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
2002 Ferus, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (catalog)
Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990's, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA (catalog)
Something, Anything, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Out of L.A. Six California Artists, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2000 Made in California, 1900-2000, Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Sixties. 1960-69, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Color and Fire, Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Contemporary Ceramics, Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1998 Clay Into Art: Selections from the Collection of Contemporary Ceramics in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Biomorphic Abstraction, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997, U.C.L.A./Hammer Museum, Westwood, CA
Image, Plate, Vessel, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
John Mason, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, (Work from '60) Frank Lloyd Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
Homemade Champagne, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy
1997 Sunshine and Noir, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (catalog);
Traveled to Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract Expressionist Ceramics: Myth and Reality Revisited, Garth Clark Gallery, NY, NY
1993 Contemporary Craft in the Saxe Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (catalog)
5 x 7, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York (catalog)
1991 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A., CA
Shigaraki Museum of Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan (catalog)
California Finish Fetish, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Kansas City Collects Contemporary Ceramics, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (catalog)
1988 Big/Little Sculpture, Williams College Gallery of Art, Williamstown, MA (catalog)
L.A. Hot and Cool, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1987 The Menil Collection, Inaugural Exhibition, Houston, TX (catalog)
Clay Revisions: Cup, Plate, Vase, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (catalog)
Tomaya Now, Museum of Modern Art, Tomaya, Japan (catalog)
1986 Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945 - 1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Material and Metaphor: Contemporary American Sculpture, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (catalog)
Poetry of the Physical-Craft Today, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1984 A Different Climate, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany (catalog)
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (catalog)
Gemini G.E.L., Art and Collaboration, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalog)
1983 Opening Exhibition, Temporary Contemporary Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Painting and Sculpture Today 1982, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
One Hundred Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Dualism, Otis/Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 1981 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog)
California, The State Landscape, 1872 - 1981, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalog)
Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog)
Mudd/Price, Modernism, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Los Angeles Prints, 1883 - 1980, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1979 1979 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog)
Contemporary Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (catalog)
Directions," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (catalog)
West Coast Ceramics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (catalog)
1977 Small Objects," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Miniature, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1976 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog)
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
Thirty Years of American Printmaking, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Ferus 1957 - 1966, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalog)
1975 Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1974 Clay, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog)
Cup Show II, David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 West Coast, USA, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (catalog)
20th Century Sculpture from Southern California Collections, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Contemporary American Art: Los Angeles, Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Joe Goode, Kenneth Price, Ed Ruscha, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1971 Contemporary Ceramic Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
11 Los Angeles Artists, Hayward Gallery, London, England; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Akademie der Kunst, West Berlin, Germany (catalog)
Gemini: Experiments in Graphics, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (catalog)
1970 Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY
Nine Print Portfolios, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (catalog)
Bengston/Price, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, TX
A Decade of California Color, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
7th Annual National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Kompas 4: West Coast USA, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (catalog)
1969 Tamarind: Homage to Lithography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (catalog)
Erotic Art '69, David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Drawing Show, Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, TX (catalog)
California, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, TX
1968 California, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, TX
1967 Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Abstract Expressionist Ceramics, Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
1966 Robert Irwin/Kenneth Price Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Abstract Expressionist Ceramics, Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA (catalog)
Ten from Los Angeles, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (catalog)
Five Los Angeles Sculptors and Sculptors' Drawings, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA (catalog)
Abstract Expressionist Ceramics, Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA (catalog)
1964 New American Sculpture, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA (catalog)
Boxes, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles
The Studs, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1963 Sculpture of California, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1962 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog)
Selected Articles and Reviews
2010 Nick Stillman, "The Blobs Aren't Talking", The New York Times, March 3, 2010
Roberta Smith, "Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach", The New York Times, March 18, 2010
2009 Roberta Smith, "Rewards and Clarity in a Show of Restraint", The New York Times,
February 19, 2009
Bill Whaley, "Places Set Aside: Artist as Subversive", Horse Fly, April 15, 2009
Bill Whaley, "Hopper and Friends", Horse Fly, May 15, 2009
2008 Roberta Smith, "Ken Price: Works from the late 80's", The New York Times, October 24, 2008
Kristine McKenna, "SoCal Color", The New York Times Magazine, March 9, 2008
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, "A Life in Clay", Artnet Magazine, October 2008
2007 Charles Darwent, "Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic", Craft Magazine for Contemporary Art, November/December, 2007
Roberta Smith, "Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic", The New York Times, September 21, 2007
Naomi Fry, "Makers and Modelers", Artforum, September, 2007
Roberta Smith "It's Just Clay, but How About a Little Respect?", The New York Times, September 7, 2007
2006 Roberta Smith, "One Collection, Many Stories, From the Land of Mavericks", New York Times, May 12, 2006
2005 David Pagel, "Off into the World with a Playful Guide" Los Angeles
Times, October 21, 2005
John Gunnin, "Greenwater and Biomorphs: The Art of Ken Price," The
Surfer's Journal, Vol. 14, #5, 2005
2003 Peter Schjeldahl, "Feats of Clay", The New Yorker, October 6, 2003
2002 David Pagel, "Price Puges Anxiety and Sets Libidos Free" Los Angeles Times, June 28, 2002
Christopher Knight, "Small is Beautiful", Art Reviews, Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2002
2001 Ken Johnson, "Ken Price", The New York Times, December 7, 2001
Christopher Knight, "Price's Lush Work Defeats Language", Art Reviews, Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2001
Peter Frank, "Art Picks of the Week- Tony Delap, Kenneth Price, Joe Goode", LA Weekly, February 2-8, 2001
Doug Harvey, "Perpheral Visions- The Edge of L.A. in three dimensions", LA Weekly, February 2-8, 2001
1999 Christopher Miles, "Ken Price, La Louver", Artforum, September 1999
Michael Darling, "Ken Price, La Louver, Los Angeles", Frieze, issue #148, Sept/Oct 1999
1998 Roberta Smith, "Ken Price," New York Times, December 11
Robert Goff, "Go ahead - touch it," Forbes, July 27
Suzanne Muchnic, "Ken Price," Art in America, February
1997 Kathleen Whitney, "Ken Price: Mutable Materials," Sculpture, September
Peter Schjeldahl, "Ken Price's L.A. Edge," Art Issues, Summer, No. 48
Grace Glueck, "Ken Price," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York Times, April 18
1996 Michael Duncan, "Ken Price," Art in America, November
Richard Merkin, "Ken Price at Franklin Parrasch Gallery," illustration, New Yorker, May 13
Jude Schwendenwien, "Ken Price," Beaver College Art Gallery, Sculpture, March
Kristine McKenna, "Reshaping the Image of Clay," Los Angeles Times, January 7
1995 Edward J. Sozanski, "Challenging The Conventions Of Art and Craft," Philadelphia Inquirer, November 17
1994 Roberta Smith, "Ken Price," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York Times, May 6
Peter Schjeldahl, "The Most Beautiful Show in Town, Ken Price: Career Survey" Franklin Parrasch Gallery, Village Voice, May 17.
1993 Frances Colpitt, "Earthly Objects," Art in America, February
1992 Robert Silberman, "Ken Price in Retrospect," American Craft, August/September
Robert Hughes, "The Faberge of Funk," Time Magazine, April 13
1989 Edward Lebow, "Ken Price," American Ceramics, Vol. 7, No. 2
1986 John Russell, "Kenneth Price, Willard Gallery, New York," New York Times, May 30
1984 Deborah Phillips, "Kenneth Price," Willard Gallery, ART News, Summer
Robert Hughes, "Molding the Human Clay," Time Magazine, January 18
Mark Stevens, "Brave Feats of Clay," Newsweek, January 11
1982 Deborah Phillips, "Kenneth Price," Willard Gallery, ARTnews, Summer
Robert Hughes, "Molding the Human Clay," Time Magazine, January 18
Mark Stevens, "Brave Feats of Clay," Newsweek, January 11
1981 Hilton Kramer, "Ceramic Sculpture and the Taste of California," NY Times, December 20
Mark Stevens, "California Dreamers," Newsweek, August 17
1980 Mary Anne Staiszewski, "Kenneth Price," Visual Arts Museum, ARTnews, December
John Perrault, "The Price is Right," Visual Arts Museum, The SoHo News, October 8
Joan Simon, "An Interview with Ken Price," Art in America, January
Addison Parks, "Ken Price, Willard Gallery," Arts Magazine, January
1979 John Russell, "Kenneth Price," Willard Gallery, New York Times, December 7
1978 Suzanne Muchnic, "Curios from the Home Folk," Los Angeles Times, April 16
"Ken Price/ Happy's Curios," Artspace, Spring
1976 Sandy Ballatore, "The California Clay Rush," Art in America,
July/August
Carter Ratcliff, "Notes on Small Sculpture," Artforum, April
1974 Thomas Hess, "Art," New York Magazine, December
1971 Robert Hughes, "The Revival of Prints," Time Magazine, January
1970 Peter Plagens, "Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles Exhibition," Arts Magazine, November
"Los Angeles Artist's Studios," Art in America, November
Peter Layton, "Kenneth Price Cups at Kasmin London," Studio International, Fall
David Zack, "West Coast: Is Kenneth Price a Nut Artist?," Art and Artist, Fall
Bernard Denvir, "Ken Price Exhibition in London," Art International, March
1969 Dore Ashton, "New York Commentary," Studio International, November
Jane Livingston, "Two Generations in L.A.," Art in America, January
1968 David Thompson, "London Commentary: Kenneth Price at Kasmin," Studio International, April
"Ceramics," Time Magazine, April 22
1965 Philip Leider, "Best of the Lack Luster," review of Irwin/Price exhibition, New York Times, August 7
Donald Judd, "Specific Objects," Arts Yearbook
1964 "New Talent USA: Newly Nominated," Art in America, August
John Coplans, "Sculpture of Kenneth Price," Art International, March 20
1963 Henry Hopkins, "Kenneth Price, Untitled Ceramic," Artforum, August
1962 Jules Langsner, "Painting and Sculpture: The Los Angeles Scene," Craft Horizons, July/August
Selected Books and Catalog
2007 "Ken Price. Contributions" by Vija Celmins and Ken Price, essay by Matthew Higs, Matthew Marks Gallery, NY
"Ken Price New Work", Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
2005 Chinati Foundation Newsletter, Vol. 10. Marfa, TX
2002 "Ferus," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
"Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna
Beach, CA, Gingko Press, Inc.
"Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990's", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA,
1997 "Sunshine and Noir," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Ken Price, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Carter Ratcliff, Ken Price: Career Survey, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
1994 Revolution in Clay: The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1993 Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, Hudson Hill Press
Ken Price, 5 x 7, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1992 Walter Hopps and Edward Lebow, Ken Price, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and the Menil Collection, Houston, TX, Houston Fine Art Press
1988 Elaine Levin, The History of American Ceramics 1607 to the Present, Harry N. Abrams
1987 Garth Clark, American Ceramics 1876 to the Present, revised edition, Abbeville Press
Marcia and Tom Manhart, The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1985 Carter Ratcliff, Tamarind 25 Years: 1960 - 1985, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1984 Kynaston McShine, An International Survey of Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1982 Richard Marshall and Suzanne Foley, Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, University of Washington Press
Harvey Mudd, The Plain of Smokes, illustrated by Ken Price, Black Sparrow Press
1981 Maurice Tuchman, et al. Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Howard Fox, Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
S. DeWilde, West Coast Ceramics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1978 Maurice Tuchman, Ken Price/Happy's Curios, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA
Garth Clark and Margie Hughto, A Century of Ceramics in the United States 1878- 1978, E.P. Dutton
1975 Eight from California, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1972 Suzanne Foley, A Decade of Ceramic Art 1962 - 1972 From the Collection of Professor and Mrs. Joseph Monsen, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1966 John Coplans, Abstract Expressionist Ceramics, University of California at Irvine Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
Lucy Lippard, "Kenneth Price," in Robert Irwin/Kenneth Price, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum Collections
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Cristi, TX
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA