Kenneth Wenzel

Ken is a representational painter. Raised in New York, at age 18, he spent a year sailing the world on freighters. Ken received his BFA degree from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. He then lived on Mohegan Island, off the coast of Maine, making art while working on a lobster boat. Ken relocated to San Francisco where he taught art to emotionally distressed boys. Ken completed his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989 before he moved to Minneapolis.

He currently teaches in the Art Department at Century College in White Bear Lake and lectures and teaches drawing at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. During the summer, Ken instructs at Edina Art Center. His work has been exhibited and collected regionally and nationally. Shows include: The Bowery Gallery in New York, The Phipps Art Center in Hudson Wis., No Name Gallery at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Minn. and The Plains Art Museum in Fargo, N.D.

Ken teaches painting in oils and acrylics at Edina Art Center during the summer.