Francis Bacon (1909-1992)
The Kingsborough Art Museum opens its 2025-2026 season with Reflections 2025: The Annual Art Faculty Exhibition. This longstanding tradition celebrates the professional work of our Art. History, Fine Arts, and Graphic Design/Illustration faculty.
The Kingsborough Art Museum celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2026. While the art department held a number of exhibitions prior to 1976 in one of the T-Buildings, the Art Gallery of Kingsborough Community College held its first exhibition (a faculty show) in its current location in the Arts and Sciences Building in October of that year. To mark its 40th anniversary, the gallery was renamed The Kingsborough Art Museum to establish it as a vibrant cultural center for the campus, and plans were developed to create a permanent teaching collection. In recognition of our upcoming semicentennial, a new KAM logo has been created. Stay tuned for 50th Anniversary celebrations and events in the coming year.
About the Logo
KAM's new logo incorporates elements related to Kingsborough: The stylized "K" suggests Osamu Shimoda's monumental sculpture Ascendance, a highlight of the campus; the sloping angles evoke those of Kibbee Library and the Performing Arts Center; and the overall outline of all three letters suggests the silhouette of the windows in the art department studios. In some uses of the logo, a wavy blue line below references the waters that surround Kingsborough.
The Kingsborough Art Museum will be open Monday through Thursday, 10 am to 3 pm during the summer module, except for scheduled college holidays. Large class visits by appointment. Please consult Kingsborough's academic calendar for specific college closings.
As part of the college's 60th Anniversary celebration, KAM presented a look at Kingsborough's
founding and early years in spring 2024. Click the image to view an online version of this exhibition. Through historical photographs and other ephemera and artifacts, the engaging saga of the college's hard-won struggle to acquire its Manhattan Beach campus is revealed.