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Ken Harman is a curator, gallerist and arts writer based in New York City. He is the owner of multiple contemporary art galleries including Spoke Art, Hashimoto Contemporary and Harman Projects.
Ken got his start as an independent curator in Oakland, California in 2010 and opened his first brick and mortar space in San Francisco in 2011. A second gallery space in San Francisco followed in 2013 and three years later he expanded with a third gallery location, in New York City in 2016. A fourth gallery space, in Los Angeles, followed in 2021 and a fifth gallery space (and his second in NYC) opened a year later. In 2023, Harman consolidated his San Francisco spaces and relocated them to the prestigious Minnesota Street Project arts building in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood.
In addition to his regular gallery exhibition schedule, Ken also works as an independent curator with a focus on populist and accessible programming and events. Previous projects include an exhibition for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation which has traveled to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Taliesin in Spring Green, WI and Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ. Harman has also collaborated with the Moleskine Foundation on a group exhibition which was displayed on the Observatory Deck of the One World Trade Center in New York City in 2022.
As an arts writer, Ken has been published extensively in Hi-Fructose Magazine, where he served as online editor from 2010 to 2012. He has authored two titles for Abrams Books, "The Wes Anderson Collection, Volume Three: Bad Dads" in 2016 and "My Neighbor Hayao: Art Inspired by the Films of Miyazaki" in 2020. He has contributed essays to "Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art" (Rizzoli), Brett Amory, - self titled (Vivant Books), and "Blek Le Rat", the 30 Year Anniversary Retrospective (Vivant Books).
Previous juried exhibitions include "New Waves" at the Virginia MOCA (2015), "Botanica" at the Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts (2015), "LIGHT" at the SF Women's Artist Gallery San Francisco (2016), "Left Coast" at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (2020), and "Visual Syntax" at the Mesa Arts Museum (2023). Additional curatorial projects include "Here & Now: A Survey of Contemporary Art" at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, March 2020.
Harman has sat on the board of the San Francisco Art Dealers Association, on the advisory board of Creativity Explored, San Francisco, and as a member of the Young Leadership Council, Brooklyn Museum.