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Basil King (May 30, 1935 - )

A prolific American painter and writer, associated with Black Mountain College, where he was a student as a teenager.

Life and Work

Born Basil Herschel Cohen in London in 1935, he came to the United States with his parents in 1947, at which time the family name was changed from Cohen to King. In 1951 he was admitted to Black Mountain College at the age of 16. Since 1959, he has lived in New York, and since 1969 in Brooklyn, where he paints, writes, and works collaboratively with poets providing art for small press publications.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 -	Poets House, New York City: “The Green Man” 2006 - Bowery Poetry Club, New York City: “Rimbaud’s Seaside” 1994 - Gotham Book Mart Gallery, New York City: “Mirage” 1989 - Granary Books Gallery, New York City:  “Paintings from The Cards” 1981 - Poetry Project at St. Marks, New York City: “Paul and Joan” 1979 - Fifth Street Gallery, New York City: “Brides of Algate” 1977 - Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, New York:  “Basil King” 1974 - University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas: “Visions of a Great Rememberer: Basil King and Allen Ginsberg” 1973 - Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan: “Basil King”

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 – Brooklyn Academy of Music, Opera House gallery: “Group show of Black 	Mountain College associated artists” 2013 – Asheville Museum, Asheville, North Carolina: “Lasting Gifts from Black 	Mountain College” 2010 - 	The Center for Book Arts, New York City: “Poems & Pictures, 1946-1981” 	(Catalog available) 2008-	Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, North Carolina: “The Spirit of Black Mountain College” 2006 - 	Bridgett Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: “Greetings from Black Mountain College” 2002 - 	Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid: “Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art” (Catalog available) 2002- 	Arts Center of Henderson County, Hendersonville, North Carolina: “From the 	Black Mountain College Museum Collection” 1996 - Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York: “Stealing Home” 1993 - Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York:  “A Whole New Ballgame” 1992 - Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York: “Pitchers & Pictures” 1990 - National Academy of Design, New York City: “165th Annual Exhibition” 1988 - Grey Gallery, New York University, New York: “The Arts at Black Mountain College” 1987/1992 - New York State Museum, Albany, New York: “Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball” followed by an international tour through the Smithsonian SITES Program (Catalog available) 1987 - 	Edith Bum Center, Bard College, Annandale, New York and North Carolina State Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina: “The Arts at Black Mountain College” 1983 - David Findlay, Jr., Gallery, New York City: “Homage to the Brooklyn Bridge” 1971 - 	University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas: “Retrospective for a 	Critic: The Gene Swenson Collection” (Catalog available) 1967 - “Origins and Cycles” New York University Loeb Student Center (with Philip Wofford, Carol Haerer, and Ivan Micho, originally curated by Gene Swenson)

ART in COLLECTIONS Yale University Wadsworth Athenaeum Grand Valley State Colleges University of Kansas Museum of Art State University of New York at Buffalo Spencer Collection at The New York Public Library Gladstone Museum of Baseball Art North Carolina State Museum of Art Springfield (Massachusetts) Museum of Art Black Mountain College Museum & Art Center Poets House Asheville Art Museum

FILM “Basil King: MIRAGE” a 22-minute film by Nicole Peyrafitte and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, 2011 (premiere at Anthology Film Archives, New York City, September 22, 2012)

BOOKS of poetry (includes chapbooks) 2014 - The Spoken Word/The Painted Hand from Learning to Draw/A history, 104 pages.New York: Marsh Hawk Press. 2012 - Portraits, 36 pages (unpaged) with 10 drawings (colored marking pens on paper);  	New York: Cy Gist. 2011 – Learning to Draw/A History, 270 pages, with cover and frontispiece. Cheltenham, 	UK: Skylight Press. 2010 – Wild Cards from Learning to Draw/A history, 42 pages (unpaged).New York: Cy Gist 	Press. 2009 - In the Field Where Daffodils Grow from Learning to Draw/A history, 38 pages. New 	York: Libellum Books 2007 - 77 Beasts: Basil King’s Beastiary, 176 pages, New York: Marsh Hawk Press - Solo, from Learning to Draw/A history, 28 pages (unpaged), West Hartford, Ct: Small Chapbook Project 2005 - Twin Towers, from Learning to Draw/A history, 26 pages, Austin, Texas: Skanky Possum chapbook 2003 - Mirage: A poem in 22 sections, 160 pages. New York: Marsh Hawk Press 2001 - Warp Spasm, 116 pages. New York: Spuyten Duyvill 2000 - Identity, 36 pages. New York: Spuyten Duyvil - The Poet, 228 pages. New York: Spuyten Duyvil 1997 - Devotions with Selections from A Painter’s Bestiary., 74 pages. England: Stop Press - The Complete Miniatures, 54 pages, London, England: Stop Press 1986 - Split Peas, 16 pages. VanderGrift, Pennsylvania: Zelot Press

EDUCATION AND TRAINING 1949-51	Cass Technical High School, Detroit, Michigan 1951-1956	Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina Painting with Esteban Vicente, Joseph Fiore History and literature with Charles Olson Writing with Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson History and music with Stefan Wolpe Pottery with Peter Voulkos 1960-1964	Part-time studio assistant for Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman in New York City

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY Founder and editor of the magazine, Mulch (1970 -76) and of Mulch Press books (1972 -77)