One of today’s foremost automotive fine artists, Ken Eberts’ artwork has been featured at the world’s most prestigious automotive events. His paintings have been reproduced as magazine and book covers, Christmas cards, prints, and used as posters for automotive events since 1968.
A graduate of New York’s High School of Music and Art and Los Angeles’ Art Center College of Design, he began his career as an automotive designer for the Ford Motor Company. In 1968 he turned his attention toward automotive fine art and has been a full time automotive fine artist ever since. Over 1,000 of his original paintings are in public and private collections worldwide. Many thousands of his posters and prints are displayed in automotive and art enthusiasts’ homes and offices.
Ken Eberts has achieved wide recognition for his work. It has been exhibited throughout the United States, earning numerous awards. He has been an exhibitor in the National Watercolor Society and his paintings have also been part of their National Touring Exhibition. He has also been honored with more than 25 one-man shows of his paintings at galleries across the United States.
Ken was a Founder of the Automotive Fine Arts Society and has been its president since its inceptions. The AFAS Exhibition has been a featured part of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance each August for the past 16 years. He is a recipient of the Richard Teague award, presented to an artist whose body of work best exemplifies the spirit of the automobile.
Through his artwork he tries to communicate the history, excitement, aesthetics, nostalgia, and his love of automobiles, in a way that can be understood and appreciated by both automotive and art enthusiasts.
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His film career began with a 30 second commercial for ARCO gas. He then landed a role in "The Fast and the Furious" and now works as a consultant on the second sequel, "The Fast and the Furious 3".
His first love has always been the car. He bought his first car in 1993 and started to successfully compete in shows and races that same year. Since then, he has modified numerous cars, founded racing teams, organized, developed and launched successful car corporations, and organized many race and car show events - always with an effort to promote the car hobby.
