John Kaine

John Kaine is a self-made, self-taught artist born in 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut.

Raised along his twin brother Jim, John was influenced by his brother’s artistic talent at a very young age. Jim went to art school in California’s San Francisco Bay area, while John observed quietly besides him. He took a course at Cabrillo College, near Santa Cruz, California under a protegé student of Wayne Thiebaud, and not until he was 30, did John begin to do his own art while living in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. He met his partner Ed and the three of them, John, Jim and Ed, moved to New Orleans, where he was granted several exhibitions of his work at the Steve Martin Studio. His first encounter with Oaxaca was in 1991, and has been living in San Lorenzo Cacaotepec since 2016.

John’s artistic influences may be too many to list but include Julio Galán, Lari Pittman, Nancy Spero, David Salle, Neo Rauch and Louise Bourgeois.

John has exhibited his paintings at La Jícara (Oaxaca, 2012), the Steve Martin Studio (New Orleans, 2006, 2003, 2001), la Galería Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco (Mexico City, 2001), the Dana Center Gallery, Loyola University (New Orleans, 2000), La Galería de la Casa Latina, and the University of California, Santa Cruz (1995).  HIs work has been included in group exhibitions at ArtSpace Mexico (Mexico City, 2021),  Galería la Rueda (Oaxaca, 2019),  the Espacio Cultural Rancho Tecomate Cuatolco, Casa del Poeta (Tenango del Aire, Estado de Mexico, 2017, 2013), the ChimMaya Gallery (Los Angeles, 2013), the Sanchez Art Center (Pacifica, California, 2012), San Francisco State University (2013, 2010), the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco (2009), the Bienal de Estandartes (Tijuana, 2008), the Fulbright International Education Institute (San Francisco, 2008), the Alexandria Museum of Art (Alexandria, Louisiana, 2003),  the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (New Orleans,  2003), and the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art (Biloxi, Mississippi, 2002).