Professor of Painting & Drawing
Kapi'olani Community College, University of Hawai’i System, Honolulu, HI USA
MFA 1998, Falmouth College of Art, UK
PG Dip. 1996 Contemporary Art Theory & Practice 1996, Falmouth College of Art, UK
B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art 1986, San Francisco State University, U.S.A.
B.A. min. Philosophy 1986, San Francisco State University, U.S.A.
Selected Exhibitions
DAC Invitational 2022
Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI, 2022
Aʻo Aku, Aʻo Mai: Paintings by Carl Jennings & Eddie Joaquin
ARS Cafe, Honolulu, HI, 2021
Present Tense: International Curated Invitational
Bupyeong Arts Center Gallery, Incheon, Korea, 2019
Commitment to Excellence, JCC
Linekona Art Center, Honolulu, HI 2018
Everything We Do Is Music
Gallery 114, Portland, OR 2018
Aloha Ho'omaluhia
Aloha Ho'omaluhia Gardens, Kaneohe HI, 2017
Faculty Biennial Show
Koa Gallery, Honolulu, HI, 2016
Dreaming of Nature
Honolulu Museum of Art at the First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu HI, 2015
Faculty Biennial Show
Koa Gallery, Honolulu, HI, 2013
Contempo 2012, The Contemporary Museum
Neiman Marcus, Honolulu. April 21st, 2012
Artists of Hawaii 2011
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu. June 30th – Sept. 25, 2011
Allusions of Space: Recent work by Dorothy Faison, Carl Jennings, and Jenifer Owen
Schaefer International Gallery, Maui Arts & Cultural Center. 2011
Visual Investigations: Carl Jennings, Carol Sakihara, David Behlke, Elizabeth Nakoa, Kauka de Silva, Kloe Kang
Koa Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawai’i. 2009
Faculty Biennial
Koa Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawai’i, 2007
Showcase 2007
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawai’i, 2007
10th Anniversary Exhibition
The Contemporary Museum at the First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu Hawai'i, 2006
Westward Toward East: Contemporary Art from the Pacific Rim
Brea Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2006
Artists of Hawaii 2006
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu HI, 2006
Carl Jennings: Recent Work
Bibelot Gallery, Honolulu HI 2004
Paintings by Carl Jennings, Elisabeth Knoke-Dieckvoss, Birgitta Leitner and Helene Wilder
The Contemporary Museum First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, HI 2003
Artists of Hawaii 2002
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu HI, 2002
Selected Exhibitions (Europe)
Recent Work
Salt House Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall, 1999
Integrated Masters Programme
University of Plymouth, Exeter, Devon 1999
Reverie: Carl Jennings
Praxis Gallery, Bideford, Devon 1999
MFA Degree Show
Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall, 1998
Carl Jennings: New Work
The Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford, 1996
The Art Show
Alexandra Palace, London, 1994
Carl Jennings: The Narrative Figure
Colori, Como, Italy 1994
Earth & Sky: Carl Jennings & Paul Anderson
The Plough, Torrington, 1993
Carl Jennings & Mario Casanova
Gallery 202, London, 1992
Carl Jennings: Works on Paper
Galerie Ivaldie, Cessenon sur Orb, France 1991
Talks, Conferences & Presentations
Chromophobia
Lesley University College of Art & Design, Boston MA. Oct 2014
Creative Thinking
Hawai’i State Art Museum, Honolulu. June 2014
Color, Context & Creativity: Towards an Ecological Pedagogy
2nd Annual Sustainability in Higher Education Summit, University of Hawai’i at Windward, March 2014
What is Color?
Hawai’i State Art Museum, Honolulu. June 2013
Chromophobia
University of Hawai’i at Kapi’olani, April, 2013
What is Color?
University of Hawai’i at Kapi’olani, April, 2012
Revisioning Color
Annual Conference of the Inter-Society Color Council of the United States, North Carolina State University. October, 2010
Publications
Present Tense: International Curated Invitational
Bupyeong Arts Center Gallery, 2019
Constant Hue Bands in Boundary Colors Discovered Using a New Appearance Model
Carl Jennings and Louis Adams Jr., Color Research & Application, 2014
The Houses of the Astronomers
Carl Jennings, Blurb, 2011
10 Years: The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center
exhibition catalog, curated by Allison Wong. The Contemporary Museum 2006
Reviews
‘Allusions of Space: Three Hawai’i Artists Showcased at the MACC’
Maui Weekly June 9, 2011
‘Get Swept Up in Spaces: New Schaefer Show, Allusions of Space, expands spatial ideas with concurrent exhibits by three isle artists’
Kehaulani Cerizo, Maui News. May 30, 2011
'Some Comparisons’
The Honolulu Advertiser, June 11, 2006, Marie Carvalho
‘Colorful Restraint: Carl Jennings’ Latest is moved to Abstraction‘
Honolulu Weekly, July 21, 2004, Marcia Morse
'Personal Visions'
Artweek May 2003, Marcia Morse
‘Intimate Terrain’
Honolulu Weekly, April 30, 2003, Marcia Morse
‘Talk Transforms Personal Perspectives’
The Honolulu Advertiser, April 20, 2003, Victoria Gail White
Awards
2015 Chancellor’s Sustainability Award, Kapi’olani Community College, Honolulu HI, USA
2006 First Prize, Painting. 47th Annual Juried Open Exhibition (WAG), Honolulu HI, USA
2002 Acquisition Award, The State Foundation for Culture and the Arts, Hawaii, USA
1997 Vivian Moon Foundation Award in Painting, UK.
1996 Barclays Bank Postgraduate Fellowship Award in Fine Art, Falmouth (UK)