Biography

Education
1981 Master of Fine Arts , Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1979 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Honors
1994 Published in New American Paintings Number Two
1990 Delaware State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Grant
1989 Fleischer Art Memorial Challenge Exhibition #2
1978 Yale/Norfolk Fellowship

Work in Collection
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
News Journal Paper, Wilmington, DE
Wilmington Trust Bank, Wilmington, DE
ALICO, Wilmington, DE
Bank One/First U.S.A., Wilmington, DE

One-Person Exhibitions
2005 Cross-Country Run, Recent Work by Ken Mabrey, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2003 Ken Mabrey: Cartoons, Auto Portraits and Burning Down the House, Delaware Division of the Arts Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2002 Paintings Past and Present, Cecil Community College Gallery
        Ken Mabrey Ice Cream Days, Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2000 Out of the Racks, Twenty Plus Years of Painting, Pierre S. duPont Arts Center, Wilmington, DE
1999 Carpe Diem: Works on Paper, Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, DE
1996 Ken Mabrey Transportation and Waterworks, McKinney Galleries, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
1993 A Fair to Remember: Paintings and Drawings by Ken Mabrey, Delaware State Arts Council Gallery, Wilmington, DE
1992 Urbanities, Paintings and Drawings by Ken Mabrey, Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, PA
1991 From Paper to Canvas, Delaware State Arts Council Gallery, Wilmington, DE
1989 Fleischer Art Memorial Challenge Exhibition #2, Philadelphia, PA
1985 Ken Mabrey One Man Show, Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, CT

Group Exhibtions
2005 Parallel Vision Sister City Connection Project, Wilmington, DE
2001 Obsessive Drawing, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2000 SYNE: Seven Bridges, Pierre S. duPont Arts Center, Wilmington, DE
1998 20x12: A Generation of Challenge Artists, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
1996 City Lights: Art and Poetry on City Living, Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
        Biennial '96, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

Teaching Experience
1993-2001 Instructor of painting, drawing, printmaking and clay sculpture, The Art Studios at Absolom Jones Community Center
1981-1987 Painting and drawing critiques, Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
1980-1981 Lithography Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

Work Experience
1986-present Freelance Artist/Illustrator
1981-1987 Assistant to the Director, Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT