As the son of a steelworker and grandson of a coal miner, Gary Kulak grew up in Noblestown, Pennsylvania, a small town outside Pittsburgh. Gary began his career as a professional sculptor in 1974 graduating with a BFA from Cranbrook in 1975. He completed his MFA from Hunter College in 1983.
1983 MFA Hunter College, New York, NY 1975 BFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1976 - Present Gary Kulak Sculpture/Design, Detroit, MI, Birmingham, MI, Southfield MI 2005 – 2020 Artist in Residence/Faculty, Cranbrook-Kingswood, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1992 – 2020 Design/Fabrication, Dirk Denison Architects, Chicago, IL 1997 Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art 1990 – 1992 Adjunct Professor, University of Toledo, OH 1989 – 1991 Adjunct Professor, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 1986 Artist in Residence, Plattsburgh State College, NY 1985 Instructor, Macomb Community College, Mt. Clemens, MI 1983 – 1984 Project Engineer, Alice Aycock Sculpture, NY 1981 – 1983 Assistant to Lyman Kipp, NY 1980 Artist in Residence, CCS, Detroit, MI 1980 Artist in Residence, Macomb Community College, Warren, MI 1976 Assistant to John Mason and Sol Lewitt, Detroit Institute of Art 1973 Studio Assistant to Richard Hunt and John Henry, Chicago, IL 1973 Assistant to Michael Hall and John Mason, Sculpture of the Pedestal, Grand Rapids, MI
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2014 Michigan Legacy Art Park Thompsonville, MI 2012 Oliver Art Center, Frankfort, Mi. 2007 G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York 2006 G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI 1995, 90, 89, 87, 84, 81 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1988 Gallerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Island, FL 1985, 83, 80 Kornblee Gallery, NY 1985 Henri Gallery, Washington, DC 1984 Macomb Community College, Mt. Clemens, MI 1981 Gallerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Island, FL 1980 Macomb Community College, Warren, MI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019,18,17,16,15,14 Chicago Sculpture Exhibit, Chicago, IL 2018 International Sculpture Center on Artsy 2018-21 Art in Public Places, Rockford, IL 2018 Carbo Nato di Calcio, Villa Bertelli Forte dei Marmi, Italy 2018 CSI Biennial Exhibition, Evanston, IL 2018,16,15 Knoxville “Art in Public Places”, Knoxville, TN 2017-19 Harbor Walk Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Kenosha, WS 2017 – 22 Sculptfusion, Michigan City, IN 2017 Castlewood Downs Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Lexington, KY 2017 Metamorphic Resonance” Pietrasanta, Italy 2017 The Digital Stone Project, Garfagnana Innovazione, Gramolazzo, Italy 2017 Sculpture Walk, Springfield, MO 2017 ISC Small Sculpture Exhibition, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA 2016 100 Sculptors, Ella Sharpe Museum, Jackson, MI 2016 Opening Exhibition, Works…A Gallery, Chattanooga, TN 2016 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Valparaiso, IN 2016, 14 N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami, FL 2016 CSI Themes in Contemporary Sculpture, University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire 2015 Small Sculpture Exhibition, ISC, Phoenix, AZ 2015 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Adrian, Michigan 2015 Chicago Parks Exhibition, Palmer Park, Chicago, IL 2014 ArtPrize, BOB, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Small Sculpture Exhibit, ISC, New Orleans, LA 2014 Detroit Riverfest, Detroit Riverfront, Detroit, MI 2014 Krasl Art Center,”10th Biennial Sculpture Exhibition” 2014 Art Fusion Miami, Miami, FL 2013 Small Sculpture Exhibition, ISC, Miami, FL 2013 Chicago Boulevard Exhibition, Chicago Parks Department, Chicago, Il 2013 Large Scale Work, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL 2012 Art Basel Miami, N’Namdi Contemporary Art, Miami, FL 2012 Small Sculpture Exhibition ISC, Chicago, IL 2012 Art Expo Chicago, CSI, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2012 International Sculpture Exhibition, Grant Park, Chicago, IL 2012 80 Years of the Detroit Artist Market Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit MI 2011-10 SOFA, Chicago, IL 2011 Next Step Gallery, Ferndale, MI 2009 Chelsea Sculpture Walk, Chelsea, MI 2009 Art Chicago, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago 2009 Spring Happening, Next Step Gallery, Curator, Narine Kchikian 2008 Detroit Art, Selections by Andreas Serrano, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit 2008 Marshall Fredericks Museum, Saginaw, MI 2007 G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit 2006 XXX, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI 2005 Governor of Michigan Residence, Lansing, MI 2005 Cartunes on Parade, Detroit, MI & Windsor, Ontario 2005 Michigan Annual, Mt. Clemens Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI 2004 Great Lakes Annual, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI 2001, 97, 95, 93, 90, 84, 82 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1999 – 2001 City-Scapes, Birmingham, MI 1999 Dysfunctional Sculpture, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI 1998 Sculpture at the Courthouse, Dearborn, MI 1998 Art in Public Places, Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI 1997 Museum of Contemporary Art, West Palm Beach, FL 1996 SUNY, Plattsburgh Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY 1996, 91 Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI 1995 Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville, MI 1994 The Artful Garden, Meadowbrook Pavilion, Rochester, MI 1993 Image as Metaphor, Lee Hall Gallery, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI 1992 Margaret Lipworth Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 1991 Salon des Refuses, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI 1991 Challenge of the Chair, Detroit Institute of Art 1990 Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI 1990 Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 1989 – 88 Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL 1989 Michigan Outdoor Sculpture 11”, Southfield Civic Center, Southfield, MI 1989 Pull up a Chair”, Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1989 Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI 1988 Emporia State University, Emporia, KS 1987 86, 84 Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI 1987 Chairs, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1987 Michigan Council for the Arts, Detroit, MI 1986 Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 1986 Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI 1986 Michigan Gallery, Detroit, MI 1986 The Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI 1986 Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY 1985 SUNY, Plattsburgh Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY 1984, 81 Detroit Focus, Detroit, MI 1984 Macomb Community College, Mt Clemens, MI 1984 Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 1984 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Chene Park, Detroit, MI 1983, 82 Kornblee Gallery, NY 1983 Creedmore Psychiatric Center, Queens Village, NY 1982 Henri Gallery, Washington, DC 1982 The Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, NY 1982 Bellevue Hospital, NY 1982 Pontiac Creative Art Center, Pontiac, MI 1981 Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY 1981 Chicago International Art Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago 1981 Artists for a Sane Environment, Hunter Gallery, NY 1981 University of Detroit, Detroit, MI 1981 Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1980 The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1980 Oakland University, Rochester, MI 1980 Chicago International Art Exhibition, Navy Pier 1979 Lee Hoffman Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1976 Pontiac Creative Art Center, Pontiac, MI 1976 Works in Progress Two, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI Kmart Corporation, Troy, MI Holtzman/Silverman Co., Southfield, MI Michigan Bell Telephone, Southfield, MI IBM Corporation, Southfield, MI Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH Royal Maccabees Insurance Co., Charlotte, SC City of Mt. Clemens, MI Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI Elm Development Inc., Chicago, IL Forbes-Cohen/Nemer Assoc., Southfield, MI Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville, MI The city of Royal Oak, MI Village of Skokie, IL Montague Sculpture Park, Chattanooga, TN City of Chicago, McCormick Place. University of MI, Dearborn Campus
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2008 Nawrocki, Dennis, Detroit Art in Public Places, Wayne University Press 2006 Carducci, Vince, Metro Times, January 2006 1999 Cho, Hanna, The Detroit News, Wednesday, July 21, 1999 1995 Birkenhauer, Tracey, Oakland Press Review, Wednesday, February 8, 1995 1994 Pasfield, Veronica, Detroit Monthly, November 1994 1993 Green, Roger, Ann Arbor News, Review, Friday, January 29, 1993 1990 Colby, Joy Hakanson, Exhibits, The Detroit News, Thursday, November 8, 1990 1990 Westenberg, W.D., Metro, The Grand Rapids Press, Friday, June 22, 1990 1989 Carducci, Vincent A., Artforum, May 1989 1989 Colby, Joy H., “Reviews”, Detroit News, Friday, March 24, 1989
AWARDS: 2009 Miro Award for Teaching Excellence, Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills, MI 2007 Schulak Grant, Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills, MI 2005 YMCA, Detroit, MI 1999 Art in Public Places, The Art Center, Mt. Clemens, MI 1991 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC 1990 Art in Public Places, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 1987 ArtQuest ’87, First Place, Drawing 1985 Direct Artist Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts 1983 Tony Smith Sculpture Award, Hunter College 1982 William Graff Scholarship Award, Hunter College 1981 Direct Artist Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts
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