Born 1951, Salt Lake City, Utah
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Loren Munk is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work over the past several decades has focused on the art world community itself. His efforts manifest in oil paintings that portray neighborhoods, movements in art history and philosophical views of esthetics. In tandem, he publishes video programs on YouTube that document exhibitions in New York City under the pseudonym James Kalm. Munk’s work has been reproduced in various media. The On the Bowery exhibition was based on his painting of the same name.

During spontaneous gallery and museum visits, Munk records what he sees while providing extemporaneous narration to provide the viewer with context. Each video begins with live music which additionally provides an archive of the downtown New York busker scene. Over 18 years, these two channels have amassed nearly 1600 programs, fifty-eight thousand global subscribers, and tens of millions of views. Munk’s channels are frequently included in university curricula.

Current Exhibitions
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, October 4, 2024–January 26, 2025, Brooklyn, Museum, Gallery 3
Saturated, September 11, 2024- January 6, 2025, curated by Heskin Projects, 1 Gap Gallery (1 Grand Army Plaza), Brooklyn, NY

Recent Highlights
Articles, Inclusions and Mentions
Maps of Things Past, Jerry Saltz, Vulture. New York Magazine
Singing in Unison Part X, William Corwin, Tussle Magazine
‘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 by 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 by 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 by Will Heinrich
Prosess, Øyvind Sørfjordmo, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2018

Movies and 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 and released spring 2019
Mapping SoHo with Loren Munk aka James Kalm posted December 2018

Podcasts
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 Group Exhibitions
2024 The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, October 4, 2024–January 26, 2025, Brooklyn, Museum, Gallery 3
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. at: Below Grand “Jackson Pollock Portrait”, 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 “The East Village”
2021 ”On the Bowery” at 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 The 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (The Venice Biennial) in “Social Environment” at the Chiesa delle Penitenti Fondamenta Cannaregio, curated by Phong Bui and Francesca Pietropaolo
2018 “Under Erasure” curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein at Pierogi Gallery New York

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