Kirk Larsen Artist Bio 2 pg 2024
Recognized with over 191 awards since 1994, 54 solo exhibitions, selected for 3 OPA Nationals, 4 Eastern regionals, 2 Salon shows & won plein air awards at the last three OPA events an Honorable Mention, a 2nd place and 1st place
Recent Awards and events:
2024 North Carolina Plein Air festival, New Bern Olmsted plein Air Invitational (April)
Shadows on The Teche Plein Air juried Artist
2023 Plein Air Salon DEC “Loopestra LIVE” Honorable mention Plein Air Acrylics Plein Air Salon SEPT “Restless & Ready” BEST Vehicle
Plein Air Salon August Top 100 “Restless & Ready” Vehicle
“Revelations II” FAV15% September 2023 BoldBrush Painting competition
“Wispy” FAV15% September 2023 BoldBrush Painting competition
‘Midnight Swim’ featured in Plein Air magazine Oct/nov
Plein Air Salon August Top 100 “For the Win!” Plein Air oil
Plein Air Salon August Top 100 “Restless & Ready” Vehicle
“Loopestra-Live”, FAV15% August BoldBrush Painting competition
“Into the light”, FAV15% August BoldBrush Painting competition
Salmagundi Club Member show Top Prize ‘Mary Macoy award’ for “Revelations II”
“Revelations II” & “Dark & Stormy” Make Boldbrush Fav 15% July 2023
Salmagundi club NY Fun in the Sun Exhibition “Boardwalk” & “Woohoo!”
Plein Air Salon July 2023 Plein Air Salon Best Plein Air Oil “Midnight Swim”
Plein Air Salon Top July 100 “Midnight Swim”
2023 Plein Air Salon June Honorable Mention “Midnight Swim”
Plein Air Easton Alumni podcast & Demo, Quick draw finalist
Olmsted Plein Air Invitational Plein Air Atalanta GA
American Impressionist Society Small works Exhibition “Two Friends hanging out”
Shadows on the Teche Plein Air; Cape Ann Plein Air Juried Artist
2022 Finalist Boldbrush “The Mighty Maria-Joann”
Oil Painter’s of America Eastern regional juried Artist “Restless & Ready”
Plein Air Salon Honorable mention Nocturne “Night train to Manchester”
Finalist Boldbrush “The Mighty Maria-Joann”
American Impressionists Society (AIS) Associates online Exhibition juried Artist
Oil Painters of America National Exhibition, Steamboat Art Museum “The mighty
Maria Jo-Ann” plein air work
Paint Annapolis; Suffolk VA Plein Air; Shadows on the Teche Plein Air; Paint Grand
Traverse; Cape Ann Plein Air 2021 BEST NOCTURNE Shadows on the Teche Plein Air, New Iberia LA
American Impressionists Society (AIS) Associates online juried Artist
COGAP Coast Guard Art Program Accepted Artist
Plein Air Easton Juried Artist (8th time)
“Best Boat painting” award Judge Larry Moore, Gloucester Plein Air Festival
Invitational, Gloucester VA
“Best Nocturne” Awards judge ken Bachauus, Shadows on the Teche , New Iberia
LA, Plein Air Juried Artist Folly Cove Plein Air invitational
Award of excellence Salmagundi Club NYC member show
Plein Air Easton Juried artist
Gloucester Art Festival invitational Plein Air, Winner “Best boat” award Larry
Moore judge
Shadows on the Teche Plein Air “Best Nocturne” Winner judge KENN BACKHAUS Out Of isolation Juried Art exhibition Firefly Artist Upper Gallery
2020 Paint Grand Traverse *PGT) Selected Artist Plein Air Easton (PAE) Pandemic Plein Air Juried artist
2019 CAPA (Cape Ann Plein Air “Honoring the great painters of Cape Ann” award
Twist & Shout Juror Kenn Bachaus Grand Canyon Celebration of Art Invitational Plein Air event, Arizona
Castine Plein Air, Maine/ Chadds Ford Paint out/Paint Grand Traverse, Michigan
Parrsboro plein air “Patridge Island Pastoral” HM juror Nancy Tankersly
Virtuoso’s of the OPA (Oil painters of America) Selected artist Cutter & Cutter, St Augustine, FL2018 Cape Ann Plein Air, Best Nocturne, Juror Don Demers (Nocturne at Railway boatyard Rocky Neck)
American Society of Marine Artists 40th Anniversary Marine Art Invitational Principle Gallery Charleston
Highlight full page Fine Art Connoisseur  magazine “Praying hope waiting for the muse” oils 16×20
Fine Art Today, Fine Art Connoisseur Highlighted the story of the painting of  “In All Her Glory”
1st Place Clayton Plein Air “Illuminated point” oils 10×20
seARTS Bass Rocks Exhibtion 2nd PL Award of Excellence “Last Offload of the Season” oils 16×20
SCNY juried artist 6 exhibitions: Spring auction/photo/Nautical show/Thumb Box show/ member show/Floral
2018 HM “Everything I wanted” oils 6×8 Parrsboro International Plein Air (PIPA) Nova Scotia, CA Juror Dick Sneary
Juried Artist Parrsboro International Plein Air (PIPA) Nova Scotia,
Taught Special seminar Workshop in Plein Air for Art teachers K-12 Hicksville High School, NY
2nd Place Award of excellence Bass Rocks/seArts Art loan program, Gloucester, MA
Award of Merit Art Muse contest “Go!”
2017 Edwin A. Abbey SCNY Award “Classic Saturday” Salmagundi Club Fall Auction
NOAPS best of America Small works juried artist
2nd Place Quick Draw En Plein Air Texas “Go!”
Paradise Paint Out Plein Air Invitational Invited artist
Best of America- National Oils & Acrylics Painters Society (NOAPS) Juried artist
2 Honorable Mentions Solomons Island Plein Air- Gala show &Quick draw Judge Jason Sacron
Bucks County Plein Air  QUICK-DRAW Honorable mention
Juried Artist Mountain Maryland Plein Air, Bucks County Plein Air
Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational, Invited artist & demonstrator
California Art Club (CAC) Juried show selection “At the Beach” 8×16 acrylics Quintessential California Exhibition
2nd Place/Best Landscape : Town of Oyster Bay Citation of Recognition- TOB Arts Council, NY
OPA Signature status bestowed
California Art Club (CAC) Juried -Musical Motifs  Exhibition
2016 Cape Ann Plein Air Juried Artist
2016 OPA Salon Show Plein Air competition 1st pl, OPA Salon Show, OPA Salon Show -Plein Air Nocturne Demonstrator
The 37th annual International Maritime art show at the Gallery at Mystic Seaport (6th juried inclusion)
Plein Air Salon –Plein Air Magazine “Best depiction of water studio of Plein Air” Feb/Mar
California Art Club ‘Plein Air Perspective show’ juried artist “Grapplers of reliable recycling”
Salmagundi Club NY Selected for Nautical show/Thumb Box show/ member show/Floral
Plein Air Easton juried Artist (5th yr), Buck’s County Plein Air, Easels in Fredrick, plein air competition (4th inclusion)
1st Place/Best Landscape : Town of Oyster Bay Citation of Recognition- TOB Arts Council, NY
Salmagundi Club NY Monoprint show- Certificate of Merit “Moon & Snow”
Paradise Paint Out Plein Air 2nd place Quickdraw
2015 Exhibit- Mystic Seaport Museum “Modern Masterpiece – 30 Years of the Museum Purchase Award”
OPA Eastern regional show (3rd selection) “Waiting, hoping, prating for the muse” (self portrait)
OPA Salon show -Plein Air competition 3rd place; OPA Salon show- selected “Defender’s last hurrah’
OPA National show -Plein Air competition Honorable mention
OPA National show selected “Sweet spot” (2nd national)
“Light over Water” Three month Solo show Oyster Bay water Scenes O.B. Historical Society, NY
The 36th annual International Maritime art show at the Gallery at Mystic Seaport
Salmagundi in Vermont juried artist- Bennington center for the arts, VT
Art of the Animal Kingdom & Small Works show- – Bennington center for the arts, VT
Home on the Range: landscapes we love. Honorable mention “Cold Spring Church”
“Golden hour” oils 6×6 3rd place winner at  in the Higbee 6Squared show
2014 Laumeister Fine art show Bennington Center for the Arts  “Perseverance award” for “Grapplers of reliable recycling”
Adirondack Plein Air competition Saranac Lake award for “Lumbering”
Raymar online Art competition Finalist Nov 2014
American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) 16th National Contemporary American Maritime “In All her Glory”
OPA -Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional show selected artist “In All her Glory”
June Finger Lakes Plein Air –Winner Artist’s Choice
April Winner Plein Air Salon 1st place “All subject Matter”  Outdoor Painter/Plein Air Magazine
Winner 1st Place-wet painting division Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MAPAPA)
2013 Cranford’s paint the town Plein Air competition 3rd pl/Mayor’s Award New Hope’s ‘local color invitational
OPA Oil Painters of America 22nd annual national show “Into the Light”, Fredericksburg, TX
April Honorable Mention Callaway Gardens Plein Air Quick Draw
OPA Oil Painters of America Eastern regional Show, “Into the Light” Bennington Arts Center, VT
2012 Museum purchase award (permanent collection)  Mystic Seaport Museum of America and the Sea
Grand Prize &  Collector’s Choice awards at Easels in Frederick Plein Air
2011 First Place Quick draw at New Hope’s local color invitational/Grand prize winner at Cranford’s Quick draw competition/Oct Award of Merit “Plein Air 757” Virginia Beach, VA/Sept Winner first Place Quick-Draw VERMONT Plein Air
2011-2013 ASMA “Contemporary American Marine Art” show.”Skimmer vs. IVRE” 22 mth, 8 museum,  nat’l tour
SVA BFA in Illustration, Jasars School of Art
Gallery representation: Castle Gallery, Ft Wayne, IN; Patricia Hutton Galleries, Doylestown, PA; Design Domaine, Spring Lake NJ; The Good Art Company, Fredericksburg, TX; William Ris Gallery, St James, NY; The Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, CT; Charles Gallery of fine art, Gloucester, MA; Ouvert Gallery, St Michaels, MD; Trumpeter Swan, Easton, MD
Former professor at the Parsons New School University, NY, a film and television actor SAG-AFTRA; mentor & motivational speaker; In 2015 I was nominated for Poet laureate of Nassau County, NY. I hold a BFA in illustration from School of Visual Arts, NYKirk Larsen Artist Bio2 pg 2024
recognized with over 191 awards since 1994, had over 54 solo exhibitions, selected for 3 OPA Nationals, 4 Eastern regionals, 2 Salon shows & won plein air awards at the last three OPA events an Honorable Mention, a 2nd place and 1st place
Recent Awards and events:
2024 North Carolina Plein Air festival, New Bern
Olmsted plein Air Invitational (April)
Shadows on The Teche Plein Air juried Artist
2023 Plein Air Salon DEC “Loopestra LIVE” Honorable mention Plein Air Acrylics
Plein Air Salon SEPT “Restless & Ready” BEST Vehicle
Plein Air Salon August Top 100 “Restless & Ready” Vehicle
“Revelations II” FAV15% September 2023 BoldBrush Painting competition
“Wispy” FAV15% September 2023 BoldBrush Painting competition
‘Midnight Swim’ featured in Plein Air magazine Oct/nov
Plein Air Salon August Top 100 “For the Win!” Plein Air oil
Plein Air Salon August Top 100 “Restless & Ready” Vehicle
“Loopestra-Live”, FAV15% August BoldBrush Painting competition
“Into the light”, FAV15% August BoldBrush Painting competition
Salmagundi Club Member show Top Prize ‘Mary Macoy award’ for “Revelations II”
“Revelations II” & “Dark & Stormy” Make Boldbrush Fav 15% July 2023
Salmagundi club NY Fun in the Sun Exhibition “Boardwalk” & “Woohoo!”
Plein Air Salon July 2023 Plein Air Salon Best Plein Air Oil “Midnight Swim”
Plein Air Salon Top July 100 “Midnight Swim”
2023 Plein Air Salon June Honorable Mention “Midnight Swim”
Plein Air Easton Alumni podcast & Demo, Quick draw finalist
Olmsted Plein Air Invitational Plein Air Atalanta GA
American Impressionist Society Small works Exhibition “Two Friends hanging out”
Shadows on the Teche Plein Air; Cape Ann Plein Air Juried Artist
2022 Finalist Boldbrush “The Mighty Maria-Joann”
Oil Painter’s of America Eastern regional juried Artist “Restless & Ready”
Plein Air Salon Honorable mention Nocturne “Night train to Manchester”
Finalist Boldbrush “The Mighty Maria-Joann”
American Impressionists Society (AIS) Associates online Exhibition juried Artist
Oil Painters of America National Exhibition, Steamboat Art Museum “The mighty Maria Jo-Ann” plein air work
Paint Annapolis; Suffolk VA Plein Air; Shadows on the Teche Plein Air; Paint Grand Traverse; Cape Ann Plein Air
2021 BEST NOCTURNE Shadows on the Teche Plein Air, New Iberia LA
American Impressionists Society (AIS) Associates online juried Artist
COGAP Coast Guard Art Program Accepted Artist
Plein Air Easton Juried Artist (8th time)
“Best Boat painting” award Judge Larry Moore, Gloucester Plein Air Festival Invitational, Gloucester VA
“Best Nocturne” Awards judge ken Bachauus, Shadows on the Teche , New Iberia LA, Plein Air Juried Artist
Folly Cove Plein Air invitational
Award of excellence Salmagundi Club NYC member show
Plein Air Easton Juried artist
Gloucester Art Festival invitational Plein Air, Winner “Best boat” award Larry Moore judge
Shadows on the Teche Plein Air “Best Nocturne” Winner judge KENN BACKHAUS
Out Of isolation Juried Art exhibition Firefly Artist Upper Gallery
2020 Paint Grand Traverse *PGT) Selected Artist
Plein Air Easton (PAE) Pandemic Plein Air Juried artist
2019 CAPA (Cape Ann Plein Air “Honoring the great painters of Cape Ann” award Twist & Shout Juror Kenn Bachaus
Grand Canyon Celebration of Art Invitational Plein Air event, Arizona
Castine Plein Air, Maine/ Chadds Ford Paint out/Paint Grand Traverse, Michigan
Parrsboro plein air “Patridge Island Pastoral” HM juror Nancy Tankersly
Virtuoso’s of the OPA (Oil painters of America) Selected artist Cutter & Cutter, St Augustine, FL
2018 Cape Ann Plein Air, Best Nocturne, Juror Don Demers (Nocturne at Railway boatyard Rocky Neck)
American Society of Marine Artists 40th Anniversary Marine Art Invitational Principle Gallery Charleston
Highlight full page Fine Art Connoisseur  magazine “Praying hope waiting for the muse” oils 16×20
Fine Art Today, Fine Art Connoisseur Highlighted the story of the painting of  “In All Her Glory”
1st Place Clayton Plein Air “Illuminated point” oils 10×20
seARTS Bass Rocks Exhibtion 2nd PL Award of Excellence “Last Offload of the Season” oils 16×20
SCNY juried artist 6 exhibitions: Spring auction/photo/Nautical show/Thumb Box show/ member show/Floral
2018 HM “Everything I wanted” oils 6×8 Parrsboro International Plein Air (PIPA) Nova Scotia, CA Juror Dick Sneary
Juried Artist Parrsboro International Plein Air (PIPA) Nova Scotia,
Taught Special seminar Workshop in Plein Air for Art teachers K-12 Hicksville High School, NY
2nd Place Award of excellence Bass Rocks/seArts Art loan program, Gloucester, MA
Award of Merit Art Muse contest “Go!”
2017 Edwin A. Abbey SCNY Award “Classic Saturday” Salmagundi Club Fall Auction
NOAPS best of America Small works juried artist
2nd Place Quick Draw En Plein Air Texas “Go!”
Paradise Paint Out Plein Air Invitational Invited artist
Best of America- National Oils & Acrylics Painters Society (NOAPS) Juried artist
2 Honorable Mentions Solomons Island Plein Air- Gala show &Quick draw Judge Jason Sacron
Bucks County Plein Air  QUICK-DRAW Honorable mention
Juried Artist Mountain Maryland Plein Air, Bucks County Plein Air
Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational, Invited artist & demonstrator
California Art Club (CAC) Juried show selection “At the Beach” 8×16 acrylics Quintessential California Exhibition
2nd Place/Best Landscape : Town of Oyster Bay Citation of Recognition- TOB Arts Council, NY
OPA Signature status bestowed
California Art Club (CAC) Juried -Musical Motifs  Exhibition
2016 Cape Ann Plein Air Juried Artist
2016 OPA Salon Show Plein Air competition 1st pl, OPA Salon Show, OPA Salon Show -Plein Air Nocturne Demonstrator
The 37th annual International Maritime art show at the Gallery at Mystic Seaport (6th juried inclusion)
Plein Air Salon –Plein Air Magazine “Best depiction of water studio of Plein Air” Feb/Mar
California Art Club ‘Plein Air Perspective show’ juried artist “Grapplers of reliable recycling”
Salmagundi Club NY Selected for Nautical show/Thumb Box show/ member show/Floral
Plein Air Easton juried Artist (5th yr), Buck’s County Plein Air, Easels in Fredrick, plein air competition (4th inclusion)
1st Place/Best Landscape : Town of Oyster Bay Citation of Recognition- TOB Arts Council, NY
Salmagundi Club NY Monoprint show- Certificate of Merit “Moon & Snow”
Paradise Paint Out Plein Air 2nd place Quickdraw
2015 Exhibit- Mystic Seaport Museum “Modern Masterpiece – 30 Years of the Museum Purchase Award”
OPA Eastern regional show (3rd selection) “Waiting, hoping, prating for the muse” (self portrait)
OPA Salon show -Plein Air competition 3rd place; OPA Salon show- selected “Defender’s last hurrah’
OPA National show -Plein Air competition Honorable mention
OPA National show selected “Sweet spot” (2nd national)
“Light over Water” Three month Solo show Oyster Bay water Scenes O.B. Historical Society, NY
The 36th annual International Maritime art show at the Gallery at Mystic Seaport
Salmagundi in Vermont juried artist- Bennington center for the arts, VT
Art of the Animal Kingdom & Small Works show- – Bennington center for the arts, VT
Home on the Range: landscapes we love. Honorable mention “Cold Spring Church”
“Golden hour” oils 6×6 3rd place winner at  in the Higbee 6Squared show
2014 Laumeister Fine art show Bennington Center for the Arts  “Perseverance award” for “Grapplers of reliable recycling”
Adirondack Plein Air competition Saranac Lake award for “Lumbering”
Raymar online Art competition Finalist Nov 2014
American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) 16th National Contemporary American Maritime “In All her Glory”
OPA -Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional show selected artist “In All her Glory”
June Finger Lakes Plein Air –Winner Artist’s Choice
April Winner Plein Air Salon 1st place “All subject Matter”  Outdoor Painter/Plein Air Magazine
Winner 1st Place-wet painting division Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MAPAPA)
2013 Cranford’s paint the town Plein Air competition 3rd pl/Mayor’s Award New Hope’s ‘local color invitational
OPA Oil Painters of America 22nd annual national show “Into the Light”, Fredericksburg, TX
April Honorable Mention Callaway Gardens Plein Air Quick Draw
OPA Oil Painters of America Eastern regional Show, “Into the Light” Bennington Arts Center, VT
2012 Museum purchase award (permanent collection)  Mystic Seaport Museum of America and the Sea
Grand Prize &  Collector’s Choice awards at Easels in Frederick Plein Air
2011 First Place Quick draw at New Hope’s local color invitational/Grand prize winner at Cranford’s Quick draw competition/Oct Award of Merit “Plein Air 757” Virginia Beach, VA/Sept Winner first Place Quick-Draw VERMONT Plein Air
2011-2013 ASMA “Contemporary American Marine Art” show.”Skimmer vs. IVRE” 22 mth, 8 museum,  nat’l tour
SVA BFA in Illustration, Jasars School of Art
Gallery representation: Castle Gallery, Ft Wayne, IN; Patricia Hutton Galleries, Doylestown, PA; Design Domaine, Spring Lake NJ; The Good Art Company, Fredericksburg, TX; William Ris Gallery, St James, NY; The Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, CT; Charles Gallery of fine art, Gloucester, MA; Ouvert Gallery, St Michaels, MD; Trumpeter Swan, Easton, MD
Former professor at the Parsons New School University, NY, a film and television actor SAG-AFTRA; mentor & motivational speaker; In 2015 I was nominated for Poet laureate of Nassau County, NY. I hold a BFA in illustration from School of Visual Arts, NY