Jon Keith Swindell
- Professor Emeritus
Contact Info
1467 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, KS 660445
Biography —
Jon Keith Swindell has worked in the discipline of sculpture since 1974, with an emphasis on museum-based installations. He has been the recipient of an NEA Regional Award in Sculpture and the inaugural Kansas Arts Commission Meritorious Fellowship in Sculpture. Jon’s work has been exhibited internationally in England, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico and Canada, as well as in 44 of the contiguous states of the USA and in Alaska and Hawaii. His work is represented in over 75 public and private collections, including the Sheldon Art Museum, the Museum of Nebraska Art, the Mulvane Museum, and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and Art. In 1986 Jon joined the KU Design faculty in the School of Fine Arts, where he holds the prestigious distinction of being a Kemper Teaching Fellow awarded in 1998. In 2010 Jon accepted a new appointment in the Sculpture and Life Drawing areas in the new Visual Arts Department, in the School of the Arts where he taught until his retirement in 2018. He taught previously at Washington State University, the University of Nebraska, and the Columbus College of Art & Design where he began his teaching career in 1972. Jon was the recipient of the Lifetime Teaching Award from The Columbus College of Art & Design in 2017. He was a finalist for the National FATE Teaching Award in 2008 and was a finalist for the Budig Teaching Award at KU in 1997. Jon earned an MFA degree from the University of Nebraska with distinction as the Vreeland Award recipient in 1983, and a BFA degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1973. Jon currently lives and works in his home and studio in historic Vinland, Kansas. Jon Keith Swindell is a native Nebraskan, born in Holdrege in 1950.
Exhibitions —
Exhibition Venues
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes, Kentucky
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas
Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, Alaska
Art Center, Joplin, Missouri
Art & Design Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Arts Incubator, Kansas City, Missouri
Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, California
Baker University, Art Gallery, Baldwin City, Kansas
Ball State University, Art Gallery, Muncie, Indiana
Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio
Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
California State University, San Bernardino Art Gallery, San Bernardino, California
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Chanute Art Gallery, Chanute, Kansas
Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado State University, Department of Art Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Coutts Memorial Art Gallery, El Dorado, Kansas
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri
Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas
Denton Arts Center, Arkansas City, Kansas
Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
Eisentrager/Howard Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Finney County Historical Society, Garden City, Kansas
Frogman’s Press & Gallery, Beresford, South Dakota
Gardiner Gallery, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hastings College of Art Gallery, Hastings, Nebraska
Hausmann Millworks Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
Hutchinson Community College Art Gallery, Hutchinson, Kansas
Jindra Fine Arts Center, Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska
Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, Nebraska
Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri
Kenneth Taylor Gallery, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Malaysia International Paper, Art Center Gallery, Malaysia
Manhattan Art Center, Manhattan, Kansas
Mark IV Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Massachusetts
Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center, Kahului, Hawaii
Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana
Mulvane Museum of Art, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
Museo De Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan
Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
New Orleans Biennial National, New Orleans, Louisiana
Pacific Cultural Foundation, American Institute in Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan
Pend Oreille Arts, Sandpoint, Idaho
Peru State College Art Gallery, Peru, Nebraska
Phelps County Museum, Holdrege, Nebraska
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas
San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, California
Sapporo Museum of Sculpture, Sapporo, Japan
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Signs of Life Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa
So-Oh Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Spokane Falls Community College, Visual Arts Department Gallery, Spokane, Washington
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
Stuhr Museum, Grand Island, Nebraska
Syracuse University School of Art, Syracuse, New York
Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
The Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana
The Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, Montana
The Emily Davis Gallery, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Touchstone Art Center, Spokane, Washington
Truman Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
University of Alabama Art Gallery, University City, Alabama
University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska
University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
University of Kansas Regents Center, Topeka, Kansas
University of Nebraska/Omaha Art Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
University of Western Ontario, McIntosh Art Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada
University of Wisconsin, Waukesha, Wisconsin,
Victoria Regional Museum Association, Victoria, Texas
Wichita Art Association, Wichita, Kansas
Yost Gallery, Highland Community College, Highland, Kansas