Biography
Kevin Mullins was born in Oklahoma and raised in New York State. He received a A.A.S. in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a B.F.A from the Kansas City Art Institute. He received a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina and completed a Master’s Program in Printmaking at the Chelsea School of Art, London, England with additional graduate studies at the Banff School of Fine Art, Canada and the Instituto Allende, Mexico. Mullins spent five years at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, as an Assistant Curator and fifteen years at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS as the Curator of Exhibitions, at the same time maintaining an active studio practice. Mullins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/ Southern Arts Federation Fellowship and grants from the Brandywine Foundation, Philidelphia, PA, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM and the New York State Arts Council. In 2003 he was an Artist-in-Residence at Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Japan.