Stephen Kaltenbach
decade
1940s
1940
Stephen Kaltenbach is born in Battle Creek, Michigan.
decade
1960s
1963–66 1963
Stephen Kaltenbach attends the University of California, Davis, where William T. Wiley and Roy De Forest are teaching.
1966
Stephen Kaltenbach earns his BA from UC Davis.
1967
Stephen Kaltenbach earns his MA from UC Davis.
1968–69 1968
While living in New York, Stephen Kaltenbach makes his version of the slant step, an object found in a Northern California salvage shop and brought back to UC Davis. There it became an unlikely source of inspiration for students and faculty.
1969
Stephen Kaltenbach, Bruce Nauman, and William T. Wiley contribute to Phil Weidman’s Slant Step Book.
decade
1970s
1970–2005 1970
Stephen Kaltenbach teaches at California State University, Sacramento, where Jim Nutt and Karl Wirsum also teach.
decade
2010s
2011
Joe Goode, Stephen Kaltenbach, Mike Kelley, Tom Marioni, Bruce Nauman, Senga Nengudi, Allen Ruppersberg, and Ed Ruscha are included in the group exhibition Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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