Stephen Kaltenbach
1940
born in Battle Creek, Michigan
lives and works in Davis, California
1966-67
University of California, Davis, CA, M.A.
1963-67
University of California, Davis, CA, B.A. (Honors)
1970-2005
teaching at California State University, Sacramento, CA
1968-69
teaching at School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
AWARDS
1979-80
Guggenheim Fellowship
1977-78
Faculty Research Grant
1977-78
National Endowment for the Arts
1967
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
1966
Regents Fellowships, University of California, Davis, CA
1963
Regents Scholarships, University of Califonia, Davis, CA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selection)
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Arts Council, London, England
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Delacroix Museum of Art, St. Paul
Evanston Museum of Art, Evanston
Johnston Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks
University of California at Davis
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Deep Time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2022
Stephen Kaltenbach, another year in LA, USA
2021
Totems, Pacific Design Center, California, USA
2020
The Beginning and The End, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA, USA
Bye Bye future! L'Art de voyager dans Le temps, Musée royal de Mariemont, Belgium
2019
SLANT STEP FORWARD, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, USA
What Death Does, The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY, USA
You are Me, Piergori, New York, USA
2018-2019
West by Midwest, MCA Chicago, IL, USA
2019
Slant Step Observations, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL, USA
2017
Sky Totems and Other Bad Ideas, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, USA
Index of Possibilities, Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland
2016
Viewing Room: Stephen Kaltenbach, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA
Architecture of Life, Berkley Art Museum and Parcific Film Archive, Berkley, USA
Mind over Matter, Berkley Art Museum and Parcific Film Archive, Berkley, USA
2015
Bad Ideas, Pacific Design Center, California, USA
2014
Stephen Kaltenbach: Drawings, Times Capsules and Room Alternationas, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, USA
Drawings, Time Capsules and Room Alterations, Bert Fine Art, Chicago, USA
Black & White, Another year in LA Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2011
slantstep 2, Specific Object, New York, USA
2010
Legend Anotating the Elephant, West Hollywood, CA, USA
2009
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Nuclear Projects and Other Works, Verge Gallery and Studio Project, Sacramento, CA, USA
2008
Time Capsules, another year in LA Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2007
Room constructions: Blueprints and Models, Another year in LA Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Fire on Ice, Marzona Sculpture Park, Verzegnis, Italy
2005
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2000
Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, USA
1996
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1990
One-Person Show, Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
1988
One-Person Show, Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA
1987
Biola University, La Mirada, CA, USA
Natsoulas Novaloso Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
1985
Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA
1982
Portrait of My Father, Emmanuel Gallery, Colorado State, USA
University, Auraria Campus, Fort Collins, CO, USA
1980
Portrait of My Father, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA
Portrait of My Father, Oakland Museum of California, USA
1979
Portrait of My Father, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA
1974
Portrait of My Father, Studies, American College of Greece, USA
1972
Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1970
Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1969
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1967
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Stephen Kaltenbach and Seongmin Yoo, John Natsoulas Gallery, California, USA
2016
Wolke und Kristall - Die Sammlung Dorothee und Konrad Fischer, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
2015
do it (adelaide), Samstag Museum, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2014
A - Z. The Marzona Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2013
State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, USA
Far From Now, Outpost, Brooklyn, USA
When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/ Venice 2013, curated by Germano Celant in dialogue with Thomas Demand and Rem Kolhaas, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
2012
Materializing "Six years": Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
State Of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange Country Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA
2011
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 - 1981, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Meisterwerke der multiplizierten Kunst, Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienna, Austria
Sculpture In So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960-75, ZieherSmith, New York, USA
a box is a box is a box, Florence Loewy, Paris, France
You are me, Another Year in LA, Melrose, CA, USA
2010
Quid Pro Quo, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
Joint Dialogue, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2009
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Self / Storage / Curatorial Industries, San Francisco, CA, USA
2001
The Figure in Contemporary Ceramics, Art Express, Cabinet des estampes, Musée d'art modern et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1998
Word Works 871, Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
30 Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
1997
4 Northern California Artists, Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA
Manifestation of Ceramic Arts World Museum of Ceramic Art, Faenza, Italy
30 Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
Gallery W, Sacramento, CA, USA
1996
Arneson Chair Endowment Fund Exhibit
Performance, Fringe Art Festival, Edinburgh, UK
History of Figurative Ceramic Art Sculpture, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Sacred Fire, Jerusalem, Israel
20th Anniversary Exhibit, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
The Pacific Rim Ceramic Sculpture Exhibit, Hawaii, USA
The Fax Project, Belgium
1995
S.O.F.A. Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA
La Modernism Exposition 1994 & 1995
The Figure, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
1994
Sacramento Club Gallery 1993 & 1994, USA
Art L.A Exhibition 1993 & 1994, USA
1993
Large Scale Figurative Ceramics, California State University, Hayward, CA, USA
New Art Forms, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
1992
30 Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
1991
NCECA Show 5th Annual Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
TB-9: A 30-Year Retrospective, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
Muckenthaller Museum, Riverside, CA, USA
Arneson Tribute, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA
Height, Width, Length, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, USA
Crocker Kingsley Artists, Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA
1990
4th Annual Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
7 Objects 69/90, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
California A to Z, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, USA
Matrix Show, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA
1989
3rd Annual Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
Arts for Amnesty, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
California-Europa Clay Redux, Wenger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dimensions: Two-Person Show with Tommie Moller, The Roseville Arts Center, Roseville, CA, USA
1988
Artists for Amnesty, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
2nd Annual Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
Faculty-Alumni Show University of California, Davis, CA, USA
One-Person-Show, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
Peace, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
750 Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA
Alumni, Santa Rosa J.C. Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
1987
3 Decades of Art in Davis, Davis Art Center, CA, USA
Local Artists for Global Thought, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
4 Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
1986
CSUS at SCC, Sacramento, CA, USA
Biolo Cross-Hatch Show
1985
Century, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
30-000 BC to Present, Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Shadow Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, USA
1984
Unique Photos since the Daquerrerotype, Lawrence Miller Gallery, New York , USA
Nuclear Sanity Show: W/Democratic Convention / Disarming Art, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA
Contemporary Surrealism, Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA, USA
1983
The Slant Step Revisited, Nelson Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
Correspondence Show, International Airport, San Francisco, CA, USA
Cowtown, Chan Elliot Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA
1982
In High Regard, Emanuel Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
Sculptors at University of California, Davis: Past and Present, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
Nelson Gallery and the Memorial Union Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
1978
Stone Maple, San Jose Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
1977
Time, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Stone Maple, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, USA
1976
Stone Maple, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA
1974
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, USA
1972
Evanston Art Museum, Evanston, IL, USA
Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA
1971
Coffee, Tea and Other Cups, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
1970
955,000: Vancouver Show, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Drawing Society National Exhibition, Cooper Union, New York, USA
Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Attitudes, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
Conceptual Art Show, New York Cultural Center, NY Tokyo Biennial
1969
Language III, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
Street Works I - IV, New York, USA
When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Plans and Projects, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Conception Art / No Objects, Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
March, Seth Siegelaub, New York, USA
Finch College Museum, New York, USA
Paula Cooper Conceptual Art Show, New York, USA
Seattle Show - 557,087, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
The Art of Money, Chelsea Gallery, New York, USA
1968
Soft Sculpture, American Federation of the Arts, New York, USA
Earthworks, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
Nine at Leo Castelli, Castelli Warehouse, New York, USA
1967
Four New Artists, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1966
New Modes in California Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA, USA
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2009
Eleey, P. / Blanke, O. / Blom, I. / Osborne, P.: The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2004
Neuburger, S.: Kurze Karrieren. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien
2002
Boettger, S.: Earth Works, Art and the Landscape of the 60's. Berkeley
2001
Norvell, P.: Recording conceptual art: early interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt,
Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner. Berkeley
Kellein, T.: Art works. Sammlung Marzona, Kunst um 1968. Ostfildern-Ruit
Pilar, P.: Extra Art: A Survey of Artists Ephemera. San Francisco
Rorimer, A.: New Art in the 60's and 70's Redefining Reality. London
2000
Newman, A.: Challenging Art, 1962-1974. London
1995
Goldstein, A. / Rorimer, A.: Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975. New York
1996
Millet, C. / Siegelaub, S.: 69-96. Avant Gardes et Fin de Siecle. The Context of Art / The Art of Context. Art Press, Paris
1988
Levin, K.: Beyond Modernism. New York 1988.
1985
Albright, T.: Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980. Berkeley
Hunter, S.: American Art of the 20th Century, in: Harry Abrams Books, p. 409
1977
Naylor, C. / Orridge, G. P.: Contemporary Artists. London / New York
1976
Johnson, Ellen H.: Modern Art and the Object. New York
1972
Meyer, U.: Conceptual Art. New York
1963
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven: Bruce Nauman Catalogue October-November
Kostalantz, R.: Breakthrough Fictioneers. New York
Shimada, Y.: Art Now, (Vol II Art as Action). Tokyo
1972
Lippard, L.: Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. New York
1970
Nemser, C.: Art Forum Interview. November
1969
Weidman, P.: Slant Step Book. Berkeley
Wedewer, R. / Fischer, K.: Konzeption / Conception. Köln
SELECTED ARTICLES
2013
Annual Magazine
2005
Art Forum
Los Angeles Times
Rose, B.: Auto Critique
1988
Natsoulas, J. / Ceia, L.: Ceramics Book
Nowell, P. / Alberto, A.: Conceptual Art
1995
Dalkey: Sacramento Bee
1990
Blau, P. / Vieland, E.: 7 Objects 1969-1990. Mass
Dr. Humblet, C.: American Avant Garde 1969-1970
1986
French. C.: Art Week
1985
San Francisco Examiner
1984
Art Week
1983
Rocky Mountain News
1980
Muchnik, S.: Los Angeles Times
1979
The Museum of California
Suttertown News
Simon, R.: Sacramento Union
1977
Tookin, D.: Bay Area Artists
1972
Perreault, J.: Village Voice
Frankenstein, A.: San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Chronicle
1970
Art Journal
Arte Povera - Land Art, Galleria Civica de Arte Moderna, Torino
1969
Junker,H.: Newsweek
1968
Newsweek
1968
Art in America
1966
Christian Science Monitor
Art International
1964
Art Forum
