Kent Anderson Butler is a Los Angeles based artist working in a variety of mediums including video installation, performance and photography. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including: The International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Venezuela, Charlie James Gallery- Los Angeles,The Pasadena Museum of California Art, Fringe Exhibitions – Los Angeles, Orange County Museum of Art, Cave Gallery- Brooklyn, NY, Photo Miami, Track 16 Gallery- Santa Monica, Carl Berg Projects-West Hollywood, Art Center College of Design, and Hunter College, NY. His video work is also in the video art libraries at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and Fringe Exhibitions.
In January 2012, The Kellogg University Art Gallery at Cal Poly Pomona presented a diverse exhibition featuring ten years of work by Kent Anderson Butler.
The exhibition Titled: Embodied, was a selection of video works, still documentation and photography that the artist uses to explore his own body through mental and spiritual phenomena such as pain, pleasure, struggle, redemption, and restoration.
He is a Professor of Art at Azusa Pacific University and teaches all levels of photography courses and New Genre Art Forms in the undergraduate program and graduate courses in the MFA program.
Education
MFA, Creative Photography, California State University, Fullerton
B.S., Studio Art with emphasis in Film and Video Art, Biola University
Department
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Expertise
- Installation Art
- Performance Art
- Photography
- Video Art
Courses Taught
ART 250 – Photography I
ART 260 – Photography II
ART 325 – New Genre Art Forms
ART 360 – Photography III
ART 460 – Photography IV
ART 465 – Photographic Processes
ART 501 – Integration: Theory and Practice I
ART 610 – Critical Issues in Art III
ART 690 – Creative Work Project
Office Location
Building One, Room 231, West Campus
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