Ron Kent

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SELECTED COLLECTIONS

American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, HI
Hawkes Bay Culture Trust, New Zealand
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Louvre, Musee Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
The White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington, DC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2004 Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, New York, NY
Nature Transformed, Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
2003-04 Selected Works, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001-04 Turned Wood - Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Commitment to Excellence, Linekona Academy Art Center, Honolulu, HI
World Craft Conference, Kanazawa, Japan
Heirlooms of the Future, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Collectors of Wood Art Forum, Santa Fe, NM
Into the Woods, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2001-04 Turned Wood, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Wood of the World, The Finnish Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
Hawaii’s Woodshow, Hawaii Forest Industries Association, Honolulu, HI
35th Annual Hawaii Craftsmen Statewide Exhibition, Honolulu, HI
Commitment to Excellence, Sponsored by Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, HI
Branching Out: Contemporary Wood Turning in 2002, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA
24th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
2001-02 Wood Turning in North America Since 1930,
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2000 Artful Wood 2000, The Irving & Mari Lipton Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA