recent highlights
Articles, Inclusions and Mentions
The Painted Word: Text, Gesture, and Expression in Contemporary Art, Lehman College, CUNY, 2026, catalogue, pp 112 - 116
palladium/Athena Project: Democratizing art, Two Coats of Paint, 2025
Maps of Things Past, Jerry Saltz, Vulture. New York Magazine, 2024
Singing in Unison Part X, William Corwin, Tussle Magazine, 2024
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition’ Review: A Borough’s Blazing Creativity, Brian P. Kelly, The Wall Street Journal, 2024
See the half-mad archivist history-recorder and human memory machine and excellent artist @lorenmunkstudio at@ruttkowski68, Jerry Saltz, Instagram, 2024
What Is a Brooklyn Artist? Jerry Saltz, Vulture, New York Magazine, 2024
The Most Exciting Art Exhibitions Coming to New York For Fall 2024, Women’s Wear Daily
What is a Gallery?, New York Times Magazine illustration, 2023
Schema: World as Diagram, Brooklyn Rail, 2023
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, 2023
talking PICTURES, sketchbook#19, 2023
The Bowery Bums, Cathy Nan Quinlan, 2021
“Decoding Manhattan: Island of Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics” by Antonis Antoniou, Steven Heller, Abrams Books, 2021, pp 159, 175, 179
The Art World We Have Lost, David Carrier, Hyperallergic, 2020
East 10th Street (Passlof, Munk) 2020, The Silo, Raphael Rubinstein
What to See in New York Galleries This Week, New York Times, 2019, Will Heinrich
Interviews
LOREN MUNK: TALKING HISTORICAL PAINTINGS posted Mar 2022
winging it with loren munk aka james kalm posted August 2020
“Artists in NYC” Produced by Sanja Frank and Terence Donnellan, Directed by Terence Donnellan. Released spring 2019
Mapping SoHo with Loren Munk aka James Kalm posted December 2018
Podcasts
We Are Art People with Emily Naum, 2025
Whitehot Magazine with Noah Becker, February 2024
Dr. Lisa Gives a Sh*t, DLG1842 Loren Munk is a gift to the art world–plus he’s a fun guy, July 2019
ArtTactic Podcast, KALM Report’s Loren Munk on vlogging New York Gallery openings, March 2019
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Singing In Unison, Part 10: Loren Munk/James Kalm, curated by Phong Bui and Cal McKeever, Ruttkowski;68, New York, October 17-November 16, 2024
2017"PAINTING about THINKING about PAINTING" at the Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University
2015"Reconnoitering: Cartography of an Art Enthusiast" at the Flecker Gallery, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, New York
2014"You Are Here" at Freight+Volume, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Alley Cats, Ruttkowski;68, June 20 - August 8, 2026
2026 palladium/Athena Project: Works on Paper, 100 Jewel Street, Brooklyn, NY
2026 The Painted Word: Text, Gesture, and Expression in Contemporary Art, February 11 - May 2, 2026, Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY
2025 Earthbound, January 23-February 22, 2025, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2024 The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, October 4, 2024–January 26, 2025, Brooklyn, Museum
2024 Saturated, September 11, 2024- January 6, 2025, curated by Heskin Projects, 1 Gap Gallery (1 Grand Army Plaza), Brooklyn, NY
2023 Schema: World as Diagram, curated by Raphael Rubinstein and Heather Bause Rubinstein, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Twenty, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
2023 In It for the Long Haul, Lichtundfire, New York
2022 “Singing in Unison: Artists Need to Create On the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy” with Peter Acheson, Phong H. Bui, Thornton Dial, Ron Gorchov, Bill Jensen, Margrit Lewczuk, Chris Martin, Joanna Pousette-Dart, Bill Traylor, et al
-“Jackson Pollock Portrait”, Below Grand , Ricco/Maresca
-“18 Situations over 6 Decades: Hoffman to Soho to Chelsea”, Scully Tomasko Foundation
-“Hell’s Hundred Acres: Soho 1960-2000”, Totah
-“Bushwick Unfinished: 2003 - 20014”, Miguel Abreu Gallery
2021 ”On the Bowery”, Zürcher Gallery, New York, curator and featured, with Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, Jake Berthot, Regina Bogat, William Burroughs, John Chamberland, David Diao, Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko, Sol LeWitt et. al.
2020 “SUM Artists: Visual Diagrams & Systems-Based Explorations” at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art Hamilton Collage, curated by Matthew Deleget and Rossana Martinez
2020 The Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain; “The Irascibles an exhibition that almost didn’t take place” documentation of the exhibition which closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, written and directed by Adriano Morán and Javier Álvarez. Produced by the Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain December
2019 “Social Environment”, The 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (The Venice Biennial), the Chiesa delle Penitenti Fondamenta Cannaregio, curated by Phong Bui and Francesca Pietropaolo
2018 “Under Erasure” curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein, Pierogi Gallery New York