Residence
Calgary, Alberta

Bibliography

• Alberta Society of Artists, The First Seventy Years by Kathy E. Zimon University of Calgary Press, 2000

Bio

Ken  Samuelson  was  born  in
Calgary, Alberta.   He  is a graduate
of  the Four - Year Advanced 
Diploma  at  the Alberta College
of  Art  &  Design,  majoring  in  design.   
He also  studied  printmaking  in  a 
summer workshop  under  Andrew 
Stasik  of  the Pratt  Graphic  Center, 
New York.    He  was co-owner  of 
K-B  Graphic  Design  Limited from 
1958  to  1968,  specializing  in
graphic design, architectural 
rendering and illustration.  In 1968
he became a permanent faculty member
of the Alberta College of Art & Design
teaching  drawing,  design,  rendering, 
letter  form  and  watercolour in  the
Visual Communications  Department 
and  also  Evening Class Drawing and
Figure Programs.  He retired in 1996
and was awarded
Lecturer Emeritus in 1997. 

Throughout his career as artist he received
numerous awards and commissions and
has been published in International
Artist magazine for his landscape painting
of Abbot Hut.   He was awarded the
Alberta College of Art & Design Founders
Award of Excellence in 2002 and was
granted Life Membership with Alberta
Society of Artists.  His work has
been included in collections throughout
Canada, London England and
United States.

Ken  presently  resides  in Calgary where
he  continues  to  paint  the  prairie, 
foothills and mountains  of Alberta  and 
the  coastal landscape of British Columbia.

Group Exhibitions

• 70th Anniversary Millennium Show, The Alberta Society of Artists South Branch
  Leighton Foundation Museum and Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
  2001