Painter
John Kilduff
John Kilduff
United States
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Credentials
- Established Artist
- International Exposure
- Social Media Star
- Covered by the Press
- Works on commission
« Just throw down the paint! »
John Kilduff is an acclaimed American painter who is mostly known for his TV show 'Mr, Let's Paint,' and has been featured on America's Got Talent, the Tyra Banks Show and VH1. Mostly working with oil paints, he composes figurative works that carry a serene sense of luminosity and a relatable observational quality. Kilduff's works are held in prestigious private collections throughout the world, including that of Bob Dylan and the late Hugh Hefner.
PERFORMANCE: Eröffnung: Über das Neue. Junge Szenen in Wien / Belvedere 21 - Vienna, Austria
The Joy of Multitasking / MOCA-Tucson - Tucson, AZ, United States
The Blessing of the Animals / BG Gallery - Santa Monica, CA, United States
Stay in the Game People / New Jörg - Vienna, Austria
PERFORMANCE: Optimized / WFMU - Jersey City, NJ, United States
Kilduff’s Bakery / LA Art Fair (Daniel Rolnik Gallery Booth) - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Paint Before You Think / Woodbury University - Burbank, CA, United States
Let’s Paint TV Retrospective / Blackstone Gallery - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Kilduff’s Flower Shop / Daniel Rolnik Gallery - Santa Monica, CA, United States
Art Basil / In my Backyard - Los Angeles, CA, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / High Zero Festival - Baltimore, MD, United States
PERFORMANCE: Painting Census / Pasadena City College - Pasadena, CA, United States
PERFORMANCE: Chess/Painting match / Perform Chinatown - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Very Good Plus (VG+) / Steven Wolf Fine Arts - San Francisco, CA, United States
Kilduff Motors / Blackstone Gallery - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Inside the Box / Julius Caesar Gallery - Chicago, IL, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / SFSketchfest - San Francisco, CA, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / UNLV - Las Vegas, NV, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / SUNY Purchase - New York, United States
Fast-food Paintings / Blackstone Gallery - Los Angeles, CA, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Hammer Museum - Los Angeles, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Museum of Contemporary Art Australia - Sydney, Australia
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / L. A. C. E. - Los Angeles, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Ottawa Bluesfest - Ottawa, ON, Canada
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Smokey's Tangle - Oakland, CA, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Northwestern College - St Paul, MN, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Issue Project Room - Brooklyn, NY, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Pleasure Dome - Toronto, ON, Canada
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Electrofringe - Newcastle, Australia
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Canberra Contemporary Art Space - Canberra, Australia
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Urban Culture Project - Kansas City, MO, United States
Let’s Paint TV / Jancar Gallery - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Let’s Paint TV / Denler Art Center - St Paul, MN, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / LA Weekly Biennial, Track 16 - Santa Monica, CA, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Dunedin Fine Arts Center - Dunedin, FL, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Ottawa Bluefest - Ottawa, ON, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Embassy Gallery - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / America's Got Talent - NBC, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Electric-Electrics Sound Art and Music Festival - Meaford, ON, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / VH1's Big in '06 - VH1, United States
PERFORMANCE: Let’s Paint TV / Tyra Banks Show - -, United States
City Grids / Brand Library - Glendale, CA, United States
City Grids / Ojala Gallery - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Solo Exhibition / Koplin Gallery - Santa Monica, CA, United States
Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market / - - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Fast Thoughts for Short Attention Spans / Space4art - San Diego, CA, United States
Peep: A curious Look into Painting / Little Berlin Gallery - Philadelphia, PA, United States
Future Present: Five Artists, Five Weeks / Arthouse at the Jones Center - Austin, TX, United States
Hollywood MerchmArt! / L.A.C.E. - Los Angleles, CA, United States
Adult Contemporary/ Dirty Black Summer / Kavi Gupta Gallery - Berlin, Germany
Practice, Practice, Practice / Lora Reynolds Gallery - Austin, TX, United States
LA Weekly Biennial / Track 16 - Santa Monica, CA, United States
10th Anniversary Show / Black Dragon Society - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Mutatis Mutandis / Embassy Gallery - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
City of Vapor / Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery - Santa Monica, CA, United States
The Courthouse Spectacle: Art, Politics and Commerce at the Simpson Trial / California State University - Northridge, United States
Group Exhibition / Millard Sheets Gallery - Pomona, CA, United States
California Cityscapes (catalog) / San Diego Museum of Art - San Diego, CA, United States
Sugarman, Mike; VICE, April 13- “Mr. Let’s Paint is the most inspirational outsider art maniac you’ve never heard of”
Miranda,Carolina, Sarah; LA Times, Dec 5- “Miami Beach may have Art Basel, but L.A. has “Art Basil”—and it’s the pesto thing ever”
Napoli, Lisa; KCRW, May 21- “No gas, no emissions, no engine: The world’s first cardboard car revs up DTLA”
Bret McCabe- “High Concept”, City Paper
Thibault, Sarah; SFAQ, May/July p.47- “John Kilduff”
Kilduff, Paul; The Monthly, February- “Brotherly Love”
Better Magazine, Issue 2- “Let’s Paint and Bicycle”
Mackinlay, Dan;Realtime #94, Dec/Jan p.30- “Utopia reconsidered”
Happe’, Amanda; Torontoist, September- “Let’s Do It All, Simultaneously, Right Now”
Gray, Emma; Artnet.com- “L.A. Confidential”
Ledwith, Sara; Reuters, Nov 2- “Multitasking artist shows how to do it all”
Harvey, Doug; LA Weekly, Sept 2- “The Joy of Painting Saddam”
Pagel, David; Los Angeles Times, March 29- Art Review: “Spectacle’ Can’t Imitate Life at Simpson Trial”
Snow, Shauna;Los Angeles Times, Aug 19- “Landscape Artist John Kilduff Goes to the Source”
Security Pacific Bank, United States
McGraw-Hill, United States
Martin Von Haselberg, United States
Hugh Hefner, United States
Bob Dylan, United States
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