Exhibitions 2020 - 2017
2020
Human vs Machine
Ars Electronica, Kepler’s Gardens Linz Austria/Newcastle Australia
2018
Selfie Flaneur
Critical Mass
Melbourne Australia
2017
Selfie Factory
Digital Portraiture Award Winner,
National Portrait Gallery Canberra Australia
2017
Selfie Factory
Watt Space Gallery Newcastle Australia
2017
Selfie Factory
Testing Grounds
Melbourne Australia
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Cantabria Central Library,
Santander, Cantabria, Spain, 2017
Gallery ULUPUH,
Zagreb, Croatia, 2017
Shintaro Akatsu School of Design,
University of Bridgeport,
Connecticut, USA, 2017
Bau, Design College of Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain, 2017
Galerie Loire, Ecole Nationale
Supérieure d’Architecture de Nantes,
Nantes, France, 2017
Indonesian Design Development
Center (IDDC),
Jakarta, Indonesia, 2017
Typographic Circle 40th anniversary,
London, United Kingdom, 2017
Create and Design Center, Chiang
Mai, Thailand, 2017
Higashisakura kaikan,
Nagoya, Japan, 2017
Advertising Museum of China,
Beijing, People’s Republic
of China, 2017
Signal-Return’s - Power of the Press
exhibition, Detroit, Michigan, 2017
HOW Design Live Conference,
Chicago, Illinois, 2017
Exhibitions 2016-2010
L Spaced Gallery, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, 2016
The Cooper Union Gallery ,
New York, USA, 2016
Heiwa-Shigyo Paper Voice,
Osaka, Japan, 2016
Polish-Japanese Academy of
Information Technologies (ATypI
conference), Warsaw, Poland, 2016
Taiwan Tech, National Taiwan
University of Science and
Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 2016
Central de Diseño de Matadero
Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2016
Mihoncho Honten,
Tokyo, Japan, 2016
Ecole Visuelle Communication (ECV),
Paris, France, 2016
Escola Illa, Sabadell,
Spain, 2016
Goethe-Institut,
Hanoi, Vietnam, 2016
San Diego Convention Center,
Adobe MAX, San Diego,
California, USA, 2016
HCMC Exhibition Gallery,
Exhibition House,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam , 2016
DRUPA Exhibition,
Dusseldorf, Germany, 2016
Samwon Paper Gallery,
Seoul, South Korea, 2016
Making It Known, Research Group Exhibition, Curve Gallery,
Newcastle, Australia, (2015)
Awards
Digital Portraiture Award, National
Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2017
Fisher’s Ghost Art Award,
Finalists, 2017
Zgraf12 Award, 2016
New York Type Directors
Club Award, 2015
Musums Australian Multimedia &
Publication Awards (MAPDA), 2014
Create Design Awards,
Shortlisted, 2013
New York Type Directors
Club Award, 2013
Australian Design Biennale, AGDA
Award, 2012
Emergentes Award,
Finalists, 2010
Ralph Kenke is a visual communication designer, researcher and academic whose practice explores typography, visual systems, interaction design, prototyping and emerging technologies. His work has received international recognition, including awards from the New York Type Directors Club and AGDA, and has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
His work has been published by Onestar Press, Verlag Hermann Schmidt and Hannibal Verlag. He is co-founder of Kenke+Trefz and designpool.org, a co-design initiative connecting NGOs with emerging designers to facilitate practice-based design research.
Ralph is currently a Lecturer in Visual Communication Design at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he is Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Visual Communication Design and a member of FASTlab.