SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Old School 2 Alumni Invitational 1974-89 Sean Christoper Gallery, Columbus OH
2015 Zeroville a feature length film by James Franco. 4 paintings will appear as props in certain scenes. Works selected by Kristen Adams Production Design.
2014 Invitational Group Exhibition. Grove City Court House. Grove City Ohio
2014 Walter King Changing LandscapesTransitional Process. Gallery at Brent Warner Fest Hall, German Village Meeting Haus, Columbus OH.
2013 Naked, 25 CCAD Faculty. Hammond Harkins Galleries, Bexley OH.
2013 Recent TravelsWatercolors by Walter King. Faculty Exhibition Space in the Studio Building on Broad, Columbus College of Art and Design.
2011 Invitational. State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca NY.
2010 WALTER KING Midwestern Dialogue, Columbus Ohio, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery and Schnormeier GalleryBuchwald Center Mount Vernon Nazerene University.
2010 Seven Landscape Painters Tina Engels,Walter King,William LaChance,Damon McArthur,Frank Spidale, Tom Tomc,and Barbara Major-Weaver. The Beverly Art Center, Chicago IL
2009-2010 Illuminating Art German Village Art League, Archive Gallery, Columbus OH
2009 Argentina Remembered Reprised Watercolors from Cordoba and Salta Provinces. Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD, Columbus. OH
2009 Art 68 at Coco 68, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Fire River, Summerfield Studios, Columbus OH
2009 Unify, the German Village Art League, Katerina Gallery, Columbus OH
2008 THE SPIRIT MOVESThe Dance Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus OH
2007 Timothy King and Walter King Drawings and Watercolors, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery, Cordoba Argentina
2007 Capital Art, Group show at Greenwich Upstairs, Cincinati Ohio
2007 Walter King Internal Scenarios, BoMA, Columbus Ohio
2006-7 Operation Fragmentation, BoMA, Columbus Ohio
2006 Grand Opening Group Exhibition at the Bar of Modern Art, Columbus Ohio.
2006 Group show of gallery artists at Rock, Paper Scissors Gallery Asbury Park NJ.
2006 1st ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION Group show,33 Collective Studio Gallery in the Zhou B Art Center, Chicago IL
2005 THE GREENPOINT PAINTINGS WALTER KING, Three Months in New York, Acock Gallery, the Columbus College of Art and Design
2005 ANGELS OF NEW ORLEANS Rock Paper Scissors Gallery, Asbury Park NJ.
2005 OBSERVED AND STAGEDMetaphorical Terrains by Timothy and Walter King, 33 Collective Studio Gallery in the Zhou B Art Center, Chicago IL
2005 EXPOSURE Group Exhibition, The Gallery Space, Queens Plaza, Long Island City, New York
2004 AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS 23rd ANNUAL, group show held at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, NYC, NY
2004 THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION OF THE COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, JVC Hall Gallery, Columbus OH
2004 PULP FICTION WORKS ON PAPER BY WALTER KING,
Artempresa Gallery,Cordoba Argentina
2004 CROSSING PATHS IDEAS THROUGH MATERIALS AND OVER TIME,Reed Gallery at the Univ. of Cincinnati, Cininnati OH.
2003 THE COLOR OF WIND WALTER KINGS AMNIOTIC ABSTRACTIONS, F.H.Herbert Design Gallery, Kirkland Seattle WA
2002-03 DENNIS APPLEBEE AND WALTER KING, Barth Gallery, Columbus Oh
2002 IMAGES AND ILLUSTRATIONS SELECTED WORKS BY WALTER KING FROM THE LAST 22 YEARS, Jefferson College, Hillsboro Missouri St. Louis
2002 HORSES FOR RAOUL, Artempresa Gallery, Cordoba Argentina.
2002 ILLUSTRATORS WHO TEACH, Gallery of the Society of Illustrators of New York City, NY.
2002 TO DRINK THE SKY, TO BREATHE THE SEA SELECTED WORKS ON PAPER Acock Gallery, the Columbus College of Art and Design
2002 theARTprojectArtists Respond to Terroism a digital dialogue on www.theARTproject.net, NYC NY
2001 BEBER EL CIELO, RESPIRAR EL MAR ESCENARIOS INTERNOS DE WALTER KING TO DRINK THE SKY, TO BREATH THE SEA WALTER KINGS INTERNAL SCENARIOS- Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000-01 THE OBJECT CONSIDERED CONTEMPORARY STILL LIFE IN OHIO, ILLINOIS AND INDIANA- Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus Ohio South Bend Regional Museum, South Bend Indiana Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth Ohio
2000 MATERIAL MYSTERIES WALTER KING AND BRUCE ROBINSON- Barth Gallery, Columbus Ohio
1999 ILLUSTRATIONS, PRINTS, AND EXPERIMENTAL DRAWINGS- Zagreb Childrens Library, Zagreb Croatia
1998 MOVING EYE...MEMORIZING WIND...WALTER KING- Elements of Art Gallery, Columbus Ohio
1997 VIER HERZEN EINE LIEBE FOUR HEARTS ONE LOVE KING, KORTLANDER, ROBINSON AND TAGGERT- Kulturrathaus Gallery, Dresden Germany
1996 7 POINTS OF VIEW Group Show, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus Ohio
1994 MIXED METAPHORESWALTER KING- Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa Oklahoma
1991 OMNIBUS 91 RECENT WORK BY 10 MID-CAREER ARTISTS- Herron Art SchoolIndianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indianapolis Indiana
1990 WALTER KING, SMALL SHOW LARGE WORK, Orinoco Gallery Columbus OH.
1985 IMAGES FOR SURVIVAL- Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima Japan Washington Square Mall, Wash.,DC Arthur A Houghton Jr. Gallery,Cooper-Union, NYC, New York
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2007 CCAD Faculty Enrichment grant to paint in Cordoba Argentina
2003 CCAD Faculty Enrichment grant for Internal Scenarios publication
2001 Cultural Recoleta de la Buenos Aires Ohio Arts Council cultural exchange,
2000 Internal Scenarios exhibition Ohio Arts Council cultural exchange, Buenos Aires
1998 Ohio Arts Council travel grant for lecture in Zagreb Croatia in
1997 Ohio Arts Council grant for Four Hearts One LoveDresden catalog
1992 CCAD Travel grant to exhibit in Budapest in
1992 Ohio Arts Council grant for 3 Ohio PaintersBudapest catalog
1991 Columbus Foundation Painting Award, Ohio Art League Fall Exhibition
1991 3rd place, Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition
1990 Best of Show award, Columbus Aids Task Force 1st Aids Auction
1983 American Institute Graphic Artists merit award, Profiles
1982 Addie Award for Profiles in American Art Poster PBS series
1982 Addie Award for Profiles in American Art Catalog PBS series
EDUCATION AND TEACHING HISTORY
2014 Retired. Professor Emeritus
2012 to 2014 Professor, currently teaching second year costumed figure drawing.
2004 to 2012 Professor, currently teaching Second year drawing and design pictorial composition.
Ive also taught color, 2-D design, basic drawing and 1st year figure drawing and anatomy at the freshman level and a variety of Illustration courses from sophomore through senior levels at the Columbus College of Art and Design.
1997 to 2003 Professor and Chair of the Illustration Dept. of the Cols. Coll. of Art and Des., Columbus Ohio
1994 to 1997 Associate Professor, Cols. Coll. of Art and Des.
1991 to 1994 Assistant Professor, Cols. Coll. of Art and Des.
1985 to 1991 Instructor, Cols. Coll. of Art and Des.
1985 MFAPainting, Boston University College of Fine Arts
Teaching Assistantships w Reed Kay Painting Techniques, Robert DArista Advanced Figure Drawing and Joseph Ablow Design and Color. James Weeks was my painting professor.
1981 Studied painting at Wichita State University
Teaching Fellowship-Basic Figure Drawing AdvisorRay Olivero
1981 BFAIllustration, Columbus College of Art and Design
With heavy emphasis in painting and drawing under Nathaniel Larrabee.
PUBLISHED
2014 The Light That Blinds Our Eyes The Figurative Drawings of Juan Canavesi, essay by Walter King for Canavesis 30 yearretrospective, Cordoba Argentina. Sala de Exposiciones Ernesto Farina Ciudad de Las Artes, Cordoba, Argentina.
2012
A blog review I wrote for Dean Mitchell, Comfortable in His Own Skin� published by absolutearts.com is being re-used for the introduction of Deans work through Cutter and Cutter Fine Art in their Brilliance In Color Gallery located in St. Augustine, FL.
2011 THIS OLD PALETTE
REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF CHICAGOS PALETTE AND CHISEL ACADEMY OF FINE ART
Juror 2010, The Language of Art, German Village Art League Carnegie Gallery at the Columbus Main Library. This years Visual Art Jurors are The Ohio Art League Gallery Director and Organization Administrator, Eliza Jones and Professor of Visual Communications at CCAD, Walter King. Poetry Juror Scott Woods. The Carnegie Gallery curator is Stephanie Rond.
The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO Sept.�Nov. 2010
George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO Jan. � Feb. 2010
Campanella Gallery, Park University, Parkville, MO Mar.�Apr. 2010
2009 Essay titled PERCEPTION The Eye of the Storm by Water King for the traveling exhibition Works from Perception Paintings by the Midwest Paint Group
Sheldon Swope Museum of Art, Terre Haute, IN Feb.�Mar. 2009
2009 Cover illustration and poem published in BLOOD AT THE CHELSEA Poetry Chapbook
Edited by Lara Konesky Andrew Taylor
My poetic contribution is titled Untitled, for Lara
Erbacce-Press
2009 to 2010 writerinterviewer for The Artist Interview online magazine. httpwww.theartistsinterview.com
2009, I appear in a short documentary about the dream of art by Inline productions on vimeo httpwww.vimeo.com10038767
2008 Review of political works with published poem. httppoliticalartwork.blogspot.com2008_02_01_archive.html
2005 Essay titled ABSTRACTIONRecent works on Paper and Canvas by Steven Burkart, for Steve Burkart Exhibition of the same name at the Naples Art Association in Naples Florida.
2004 to 2009 founding blogger for www.absolutearts.com