Ken Graves (1942-2016) was born in Portland, OR and received his BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He is the recipient of a Ferguson Grant (1973) and National Endowment for the Arts (1975, 1986), among others. His work has been widely exhibited and is in permanent collections at Allentown Art Museum, PA; Brooklyn Museum, NY; and the NY and SF Museums of Modern Art. He is the co-author with Eva Lipman of American Snapshots and Ballroom. The Home Front, a respective of Graves’s early work was published by Mack Books in 2014, and Ken Graves: The Meaning of Gravity, a collection of his collages, was published by Luhz Press in 2023. He taught photography at Pennsylvania State University until 2008. He is survived by his wife and photographic partner Eva Lipman.
Eva Lipman was born in Děčín, Czechoslovakia, received her BA in Literature from Hunter College, her MSW from Columbia University, New York, and studied photography at the Center for Media Arts and the School of Visual Arts, NY. Graves currently resides in El Cerrito, CA. Her work is in several private and public collections and has been exhibited at Allentown Art Museum, PA; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR; The New York Public Library, NY; Clampart Gallery, New York, NY; and the NY and SF Museums of Modern Art. She is the co-author with Ken Graves the photography books Restraint and Desire and Derby, published by TBW Books in 2022. She continues to be a steward of their work.
Ken Graves and Eva Lipman are represented by Rose Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Clampart, New York, NY; and Anglim/Trimble.
