About

Ken Marchionno is an artist, educator, writer, and curator living in the Los Angeles area. Since receiving his MFA from UC Irvine, Ken has taught Graduate and Undergraduate seminars and critiques, in photography, interactive media, and video, at universities and art schools in the US and abroad, and seminars and workshops for RED Cinema in London, New York, and Los Angeles.

For over four decades, much of Ken’s work has been community engaged, social practice. 

His work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, including the Smithsonian Institute, the National Center for the Arts in Mexico City, the Third China Songzhuang International Exhibition, the California Museum of Photography, the Moscow Film Festival, and the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA.

His work has been published in books on photography and media, including three of Robert Hirsch’s texts on photography and Dr. Betty Ann Brown’s Art and Mass Media. He was a stringer for the Associated Press and his photography has been published in magazines and newspapers all over the world. Additionally, he has produced art criticism and short stories for international magazines and journals like Art Papers, Sajin Yaesul, and Errant Bodies.

As Director of TRACTIONARTS Ken curated the alternative video space in the downtown Los Angeles Arts District, and organized exhibitions for Spring Break Art Show in Los Angeles and the Deagu Photo biennale in Korea.

His work has received funding from the arts and humanities—recently the California Community Foundation, the Society for Photographic Education, the Sidney Stern Memorial Trust.