Costello
The Bio
Kevin Costello - Modern Metalsmith
Born in Kingston, NY in 1964, I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1988. I have exhibited both nationally and internationally and have won several major art prizes including the third prize at the Fortunoff International Silver Competition. I am a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and currently work and live in New York State.
Complexity and strength, with vulnerability and hopelessness, My recent works seek to expose a delicate coexistence between a sense of calm and structured safety and the underlying gravity of the unpredictable tension that pulls at us all. The play of line, structure, and pattern at the cliffs edge…
Education
1988
BFA - Metalsmithing
State University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz, New York
Awards
1991
The New York Foundation for the Arts - Fellowship Winner
1991
Fourth Annual American Craft Awards -
Merit Award
1990
Fortunoff International Silver Competition - Third Prize Winner
1988
“Craft Today - The Showcase for Tomorrow’s Market” -
Outstanding Work
Exhibitions
2023
"Abstract, Distortion & Fragmentation", Li Tang Gallery - New York, NY
1995
Group Exhibition, Bakinsky Gallery - New York, NY
1993
“Craft of Containment”, Berkshire Museum - Pittsfield, MA
1992
Juried Exhibition, Hess Fine Arts Center - McPherson, KS
1992
The Hoyt National Art Exhibition, The Hoyt Institute of Fine Art -
New Castle, PA
1991
“Double Take”, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery - New York, NY
1990 - 1991
“Silver: New Forms and Expressions, Fortunoff Gallery - New York, NY
(Travels: The Tang Museum, Atlanta Museum of Art and Design, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art)
1989
“Collect New York”, Fabri Mansion - New York, NY
1989
“A Show of Hands”, Show of Hands Gallery - New York, NY
1989
Group Exhibition, Clodagh, Ross, and Williams Gallery - New York, NY
1988
“Kevin Costello - Plate forms”, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art -
New Paltz, NY
1988
“Craft Today, The Showcase for Tomorrow’s Market”, J Javits Center - New York, NY
1988
“Collect New York”, Steuben Glass - New York, NY
1988
“Conversations III”, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art - New Paltz, NY
1987
“Annual Select”, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art - New Paltz, NY