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Allan Kaprow
Born in 1927 in Atlantic City, NJ
Lives in Encinitas, CA

Bram Crane-Kaprow
Born in 1988 in San Diego, California
Lives in Encinitas, CA

Bram Kaprow is an eleven-year-old middle school student and artist. His work has been in one museum show before this one: he collaborated with his Dad on an artwork for the San Diego Children's Museum.

Allan Kaprow is perhaps know as the inventor of  the “Happening.” His work has been sponsored by major institutions on both sides of the Atlantic: the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Pasadena Art Museum; Cornell University, the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, M.I.T.; the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, Galerie Foksal in Warsaw, the Milanese Civic Arts Office, the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts in Vienna, the Lyon, Leipzig and Venice Biennales, Documenta, etc.

He has had over 30 one-person presentations, including retrospectives at the Pasadena Art Museum, 1967; the Bremen Kunst Museum, 1976; Fondazione Mudima in Milan, 1991; Galerie Donguy in Paris, 1992; and the John Gibson Gallery in New York, 1995.

Allan Kaprow received the Catherine White Foundation award in 1951, the William and Norma Copely Foundation Award in 1963, the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967, the Skowhegan Medal in 1974, a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts in that same year, and a residency in 1976 from Berlin's DAAD (an international arts and sciences scholarship). In 1979, he received a second NEA grant, and a second Guggenheim Fellowship.