Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 30 YEARS Kenton Nelson, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, California

2023 Seaside: Art by Kenton Nelson, California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, California
Independents, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2022 Thirty Swimming Pools, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, California

2021 Kenton Nelson: A Day at the Beach, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Montecito, California

2020 Kenton Nelson | New Paintings of Common Objects, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicksa, Salzburg, Austria

2020 Kenton Nelson | Stories, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, California

2019 Water Paintings by Kenton Nelson, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, California

2018 Kenton Nelson | Water, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, California
Kenton Nelson | New Work, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2017 Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, New York

2016 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Splash: Art by Kenton Nelson, California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, California
Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Kenton Nelson | Present Tense, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2015 Californian Idealism: Paintings by Kenton Nelson
Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2014 Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicksa, Salzburg, Austria
Bohemian Club, San Francisco, California

2013 Obstacles and Competition SpardaWelt
Sparda-Bank Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2012 Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2011 Peter Mendenhall Gallery, New York, NY (pop-up)
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2010 Galerie Haas AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, California
SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, California

2009 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2008 Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Art Brussels 26th Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium

2007 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2006 Mendenhall Sobieski, Pasadena, California
Plus One Gallery, London, England
SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, California

2005 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Reynolds Gallery, Westmont College, Montecito, California
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California
Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, California

2004 Ettinger Gallery, New York, New York
SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, California

2003 Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2002 DNFA Gallery, Pasadena, California
Ettinger Gallery, New York, New York
Van De Griff / Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sullivan Goss Limited, Montecito, California

2001 DNFA Gallery, Pasadena, California
Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California

2000 Van De Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ettinger Gallery, New York, New York

1999 DNFA Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, California

1998 Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, California
Ettinger, New York, New York
Davidson Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1997 Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, California
Ettinger Gallery, New York, New York
Muckenthaler Arts Center, Fullerton, California

1996 Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, California
Cerritos College Fine Arts Gallery, California

1995 Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, California

1993 Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, California

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Land, Sea & Light: The John Sacret Young Collection, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York

2019 Warhol bis Richter, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Dress Rehearsal, Oceanside Museum, Oceanside, California

2017 Albertina Contemporary Art, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
American Realism: A Survey, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York

2013 Frostig at Large, Lancaster Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, California

2012 Albertina Contemporary: Gerhard Richter bis Kiki Smith, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria

2011 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2010 San Francisco Fine Art Fair, San Francisco, California
SCAPE, Corona Del Mar, California

2009 Batliner Collection, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Art Cologne, Germany
Warum ich kein Konservativer bin Museum der bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, Germany

2008 Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Go for it! Olbricht Collection (a sequel), Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany
Red Rot Rouge, Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy

2006 Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2005 The Art of The New Yorker: Eighty Years in the Vanguard, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, California
Ettinger Gallery, New York, New York

2004 Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, California
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sullivan Goss Limited, Montecito, California

2001 Peterson Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, California