Kevin Haran

Works on Paper and Sculpture

Biography

Kevin Haran has a BFA (Studio Art) and a BA (Art History) from the University of Central Florida. He has a MFA degree in Painting+Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Haran was an Associate Curator of Education at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Haran is currently an Assistant Director and Associate Professor at the School of Visual Arts and Design at The University of Central Florida.

Haran’s studio work has been included in over seventy national and International juried exhibitions. His work is in the collections of The Columbus Museum, Georgia; Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida; Army Art Collection, Washington, DC; and the National World War II Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana.

"No computer graphics program can replace the strength and elegance of great draftsmanship. With minimal means - a limited palette, straight lines, and traditional materials - this is more a portrait of form itself than a depiction of an object. With stains and a corner tear it evocatively references the past, when new machines and sci-fi predictions of the future captured the public’s imagination."

-Juror statement by Al Miner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, commenting on the drawing UFO 3 at the annual Works on Paper National Juried Exhibition at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, Massachusetts