Kenneth Wayne Bushnell

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Kenneth Wayne Bushnell (October 16, 1933 – October 4, 2020) was an American visual artist born in Los Angeles. He earned a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958 and then moved to Hawaii, where he earned an MFA from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1961. He taught painting at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1961 to 1981 and was appointed chair of the Art Department in 1991. He married fellow artist Helen Gilbert in 1995; she passed away in 2002.

Bushnell is best known for geometric abstract paintings, but his work also included sculpture, light sculptures, wall reliefs, films, multimedia theater, and environmental designs. One of his notable works, Double Square Series No. 6 (1982), is in the Honolulu Museum of Art. For more than 25 years, he worked on the Euclidean Dream Cycle, a series based on equilateral triangles and arcs.

His art is included in major public collections, including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Bushnell lived in Honolulu and was an important figure in Hawaiian art.