Kenneth Price (February 16, 1935 – February 24, 2012) was an American ceramic artist and printmaker. Price lived and worked in Venice, California and Taos, New Mexico. Ken Price started out in painting at the University of Southern California. After studying briefly with Peter Voulkos at the Los Angeles County Institute of Art (now Otis College of Art and Design), Price attended Alfred University, where he received his graduate degree in ceramics. Back in Los Angeles, he had his first solo exhibition at Ferus Gallery in 1960. In the early 1960s he worked in series and produced objects shaped like lumps, domes, and eggs; many of his earliest cups feature creatures on the base. Throughout his later career, Price continued to experiment with color, and he expanded the size of his sculpture - with some works growing to more than 7 feet. In the 1980s, he began painting his forms with thin layers of bright acrylic paint that he then sanded down in patches, illuminating multiple hues. In the 2000s he used this same process on bronze. His objects are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.