Upcoming Exhibitions

Awards and Grants

Group Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Selected Collections

Corporate Collections

Upcoming Exhibitions

• Mississippi Celebration (Woodcut Workshop/Lectures
• Mississippi Museum
• Jackson, Mississippi (April10th, 11th, and 12th, 2008)
• Monoprint Group Show
  • James Snidle Fine Art
  • Chico, CA (May 1- May 31, 2008)

Awards and Grants

• Susan B. Herron Literary and Visual Arts Fellowship
• Mississippi Arts Commission / N.E.A.
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• Rockefeller Foundation Grant
• Bellagio Study Center
• Bellagio, Italy - 1990
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• Individual Artist Grant
• N.E.A. and Mississippi Arts Commission - 1988
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• Award for Visual Arts
• Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters - 1987
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• Southern Arts Federation / N.E.A. Regional fellowship in Sculpture
• Southern Arts Federation
• Atlanta, Georgia - 1987
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• Polaroid Foundation Grant
• Photography grant to photograph in Italy - 1990
• Selected work chosen for their collection

Group Exhibitions: Selected (Painting and Sculpture)

• Mississippi Museum Inaugural Exhibition
  • Mississippi Museum of Art
  • Jackson, MS (June, 2007
• Artist's Books from the Collection
• Logan Gallery for Artist's Books
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• San Francisco, CA. (February 2005 )
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• Picture Show – Selected Works from the MMA Collection
• Mississippi Museum of Art
• Jackson, MS. (November 20, 2004 - March 27, 2005)
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• Sweet Sixteen-Sixteen Years at the Lowe Gallery
• Lowe Galllery
• Atlanta, GA (August 1 - September 1, 2005)
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• O – What a Night
• Ogden Museum of Southern Art
• New Orleans, LA. (November 1, 2004 - December 1, 2004)
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• The Story of the South: Part III
• Ogden Museum of Southern Art
• New Orleans, LA. (March 3, 2004 - September 3, 2004)
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• Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the 21st Century
• Meridian International Center
• Opened in Washington, D.C., April, 1999, then toured Vietnam and major Museums throughout Asia - Catalog available
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• Ke Francis, Andy Nasisse and Andy Saftel
• Lowe Gallery
• Atlanta, Georgia - June, 1998
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• Tools As Art III
• National Building Museum
• Washington, DC, October 31, 1997 / April 19, 1998
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• An American Renaissance
• 13 American Artists / Curated by Dr. Maria Borras
• Shown at Lowe Gallery
• Atlanta, Georgia - 1996 Olympic Games
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• Breaking Barriers
• National Museum of American Crafts
• New York, New York - 1996
• Catalog available
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• National Invitational Ceramics Exhibition
• University of Central Florida
• Orlando, Florida - 1995
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• The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism
• Washington Project for the Arts
• Washington, D.C. - 1989
• Catalog available
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• Looking South: A Different Dixie
• Birmingham Museum
• Birmingham, Alabama - 1988
• Catalog available
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• More Than Land and Sky : Art From Appalachia
• National Museum of American Art: Smithsonian Institution
• Washington, D.C. - 1982 / 1984
• Catalog available
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• The Conceptual Impulse
• 3 Tableau / Installation works installed at the Costa Mesa Gallery of Security Pacific Corporation
• Costa Mesa, California - 1990
• Catalog available

Group Exhibitions: Selected (Book Arts and Paper) 

• Florida Artist's Book Prize Exhibition
• Bienes Center for the Literary Arts
• Fort Lauderdale, FL (March 1 - May 1, 2006)
• Modern Stories: Narrative Prints
• Rutgers Center for Innovative Paper and Prints
• New Brunswick, New Jersey. - tours 2005
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• BOOK / ART BOOK
• Houston Downtown Library
• Houston, Texas - October 5 - 30, 1998
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• Crossing Over / Changing Places
• Sponsored By U.S. Information Agency
• Traveled to Eastern and Western Europe, Greece, Turkey and Israel
• 1991 / 1997 - Catalog available
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• Books As Objects (traveling exhibition)
• Comus Gallery
• Portland, Oregon - 1994
• Catalog available
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• The Book Unbound (traveling exhibition)
• Ormond Memorial Art Museum
• Ormond Beach, Florida - 1994
• Catalog available
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• Loyola Invitational Book Art Exhibit
• Loyola Gallery
• New Orleans, Louisiana - 1994
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• Pyramid-Atlantic Paperworks Exhibit
• Addison/Ripley Gallery
• Washington, D.C. - 1994
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• Bounty From The Block
• One Hundred Years Of American Color Woodcut
• Elvejhem Museum
• Madison, Wisconsin - 1993
• Catalog available
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• Pyramid - Atlantic/Corcoran Book Fair
• Featured Book (with reading by the artist)
• Washington, D.C. - 1992 / 1993 / 1995 / 1997 / 1999
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• Artist's Books
• Fendrick Gallery
• New York, New York - 1990
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• New American Paperworks
• Organized by the World Print Council
• International Touring Exhibition - 1983 / 1985
• Catalog available

Solo Exhibitions / Two Person Exhibitions

• Metaphysics, Mysticism, and Mud (Ke Francis and Andy Saftel)
  • Lowe Gallery
  • Santa Monica, CA. (June 15- July 17, 2007)
• Ke Francis and Larry Cooper; Recent Work
  • Allyn Gallup Gallery
  • Sarasota, FL (April 5 - May 10, 2006
• The Narrative Impulse
• University of South Carolina at Sumter
• Nov. 1 - Nov. 30, 2001
• Sumter, South Carolina
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• Ke Francis – The Narrative Impulse Books, Prints, Paintings, and Sculpture
• Stetson University
• Feb.1 - Feb.30, 2002
• Deland, Florida
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• Ke Francis
• Montgomery Museum of Art
• Sept. 1 - Oct. 30, 2002
• Montgomery, Alabama
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• Small Paintings and Works on Paper: William T. Wiley and Ke Francis
• Jay Etkin Gallery
• Sept. 25 - Oct. 25, 2001, Memphis, Tenn.
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• Ke Francis / William T. Wiley
• Memphis College of Art
• Sept. 25 - Oct.25, 2001, Memphis, Tenn.
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• Celestial Hitchhiker
• University Gallery
• University of Memphis
• Memphis, Tennessee - 1995
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• Ke Francis: Recent Works
• Comus Gallery
• Portland, Oregon - 1995 and 1993
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• Accounts Southeast: Ke Francis
• Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art
• Installation, lecture and reading
• Winston-Salem, North Carolina - 1992
• Catalog available
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• Beaulah Land: A Survey of Major Works
• Lowe Gallery
• Atlanta, Georgia - 1991
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• Reconstruction: The Tornado Series
• Installation with life-sized tornado shelter, and video work, sculpture, prints and paintings
• Clara Eagle Gallery
• Murray, Kentucky - 1989

Selected Collections

• J.P.Getty Museum and Libraries
• Los Angeles, California
• Artist-s and Rare Book Collection
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• Boston Museum of Fine Art
• Boston, Massachusetts
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• National Gallery
• Washington, D.C.
• Artist's Book Collection
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• The National Museum of American Art
• Smithsonian Institution
• Washington, D.C.
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• The Library of Congress
• Washington, D.C.
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• Security Pacific Corporation
• Costa Mesa, California
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• The Mint Museum
• Charlotte, North Carolina
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• The New Orleans Museum
• New Orleans, Louisiana
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• The Rose Museum
• Brandeis University
• Waltham, Massachusetts
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• The Mississippi Museum
• Jackson, Mississippi
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• The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
• Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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• The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• New Brunswick, New Jersey
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• The High Museum
• Atlanta, Georgia
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• The Birmingham Museum of Art
• Birmingham, Alabama
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• Sterling Memorial Library, Rare Book and Artist's Book Collection
• Yale University
• New Haven, Connecticut
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• Brooks Memorial Art Gallery
• Memphis, Tennessee
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• Van-Pelt Dietrich Center, Artist's and Rare Book Collection
• University of Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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• City of Orlando Collection
• City Hall
• Orlando, Florida
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• The Library of the University of Georgia
• Artist's and Rare Book Collection
• Athens, Georgia
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• The Polaroid Collection
• Boston, Massachusetts
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• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• San Francisco, CA

Corporate Collections

• Adaptec Corporation
• Orlando, Florida
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• Emeril's
• Universal Village, Florida
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• Mighty Distributors
• Atlanta, Georgia
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• Auto Zone Collection
• Memphis, Tennessee
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• The Hechinger Collection
• Landover, Maryland
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• Bankcorp
• Jackson, Mississippi