Kent Howie moved to San Francisco from Calgary, Alberta in August of 1985 to attend the San Francisco Art Institute. After graduating Summa Cum Laude with an MFA in Photography, in 1989 he joined Artists Television Access, an all volunteer artists run community space on Valencia Street in the Mission District. He was the longest serving member, both as staff performing daily tasks, and later as a board member, shaping the direction of the organization.
During his tenure at ATA, Kent worked with the Arab Film Festival, the Latino Film Festival, and the South Asian Film Festival. Kent revived and was the long time manager and curator of ATA’s art gallery. In addition, Kent produced over 500 episodes of Artist’s Television shows that aired on Public Access Television.
Before working with the Inland Boatman’s Union as a deckhand for over 19 years, Kent worked for 5 years at Project Open Hand, delivering food to terminally ill patients across San Francisco. In 2008, Kent was an integral part of a community effort that organized and blocked chain stores from coming into the Mission District.
I’ll live my life and just experiment.
So that’s it for now.
Explore by medium
Collage
Mixed Ink
Mixed MEdia
community television
Exhibition Record
One-Person Exhibitions
1997 R.K Howie Galerie Van Den Berge, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1994 Lucky, S.F Camera work Gallery, San Francisco, California
1992 Foto Galerie Objektief, Enschede, Netherlands
1988 Kent Howie San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art San Jose California
Selected Exhibitions
2009-Quarter Century of Alternative Work
A selected Screening
ATASite
2004 The Matzo Files at the Streit Matzo Company
New York
2001 The Anthology of Art by Jochem Gerz
he Anthology of Art by Jochem Gerz
http://www.anthology-of-art.net/inside/index.html
1999 Centrum Beeldende Kunst Hoorn, Netherlands
20 Fotografen/Kunstenaars Amsterdam’s Centrum voor Fotografie, Netherlands
1997 The San Francisco Art Institute: Fifty Years of Photography
Trans America Pyramid San Francisco Ca.
The Shooting Gallery, LACE, Los Angeles Ca.
1996 Sound Culture 96 International Trans-Pacific Festival and
Symposia on Sound Art and Aural Culture, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco Ca.
1995 Obsession, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
1994 Spring Arts Festival Sarajevo Bosnia
1993 The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York
1992 Group Exhibition, De Beyerd, Breda Netherlands
1991 Thirteen Young American photographers, Oude kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
