Canto
39"h x 50"x x 4"d
oil canvas, flashe, ink paper
1999

Kenneth Schnall did graduate programs on painting, printmaking and art history at The School of Visual Arts (SVA), in NYC. He received a fellowship for painting study in Urbino, Italy, where he came in contact with artists associated with the Transvanguardist art movement. A succeeding painting fellowship to the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, absorbing the citiy's rich culture. "At that time, with clearer focus and goals, I felt I had become a 'painter' and was not just 'painting'."

He received an NEA Grant in '95 to produce a limited edition book project at the Center for Innovative Printmaking in NJ, a 1999 painting fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, and a Geraldine R. Dodge fellowship to work at the Virgina Center for the Creative Arts.

Exhibiting nationally and internationally soince 1962, he had his first one man show in NYC in 1972. His work is included in corporate and museum collections in New Jersey and New York.