Richard Kamler, long time artist, educator, curator and activisthas been making issue driven art since 1976 wyhen he made his first major installation, "Out of Holocaust;" a full size reconstruction of one of the barracks from the Auschwitz Death Camp. Since that time, his public installations, sounds pieces, actions & events, sculptures, and public presentations hjave dealt with a series of social and environmental considerations. They have been exhibited nationally and internationally.

He has receiveds many grants and awards for his work; among them a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a California Arts Council Fellowship, an Alaskan State Arts Council/NEA grant where he spent 9 months on Baranof Island in Alaska doing "landscape installations," a Gunk Foundation for Public Art, the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Potrero Nuevo Fund. In 1996 Kamler was awarded the prestigious Adeline Kent award from the san Francisco Art Institute and in 1999 a major AQrtist fellowship from George Soros' Open Society institute.

Kamler's current project, Seeing Peace: Artists Collaborate with the United Nations, a visionary ionternational initiative, seeks to embed the imagination, through the presence of the artist, at the table of the General Assembly of the Unuted Nations.

He is currently Chair of the Visual Arts Department and also co-directs with Prof. Sharon Siskin, the Arts Outreach Program, Artist as Citizen, that seeks to embed student practioners into communities to collaboratively engage in Community-based art.

www.richardkamler.org

Contact Info:
University of San Francisco
Visual Arts
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Phone: (415) 422-5762
Fax: (415) 422-2815
E-mail: kamler@usfca.edu
Office: Lone Mountain, Main Building
Office Hours: By appointment.