Kenneth Noland was born in Asheville, North Carolina (USA), in 1924, but he lives and works in Port Clyde, Maine (USA).
He's one of the best exponents of the American abstract painting movement called Color Field Painting. Since the mid-’50s, Noland in opposition to expressionistic painting has been developing a cold, clear and clean kind of painting, with a flat and definite paging. On canvas, the artist creates background paintings of contrasting colors capable of creating optical vibrations that freeing a kind of expansive energy produce a trespassing and a dilatation of the work beyond the limits of its perimeter. Good examples of these results are the works of the famous Circles series. Later, he has continued with the Chevrons and Stripes series, in which he mainly evidences a radical kind of painting, tending to Minimalism. Afterwards, shaped fabric, asymmetric forms and doors. Today, he re-elaborates the new Circles series with a more decomposed kind of painting.

Among Noland's most important exhibitions, it's worth mentioning his first one-man show in Europe, which was presented by Beatrice Monti's Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, in 1962 as well as the exhibitions at Duke University's Museum of Contemporary Art, Durham, North Carolina and at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad de México, both in 1983. In 1985, his solo exhibition was presented by the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain. In 1994, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Museum of Fine Arts Ft. Lauderdale in Florida presented The Circle Paintings in important exhibitions. In 2001, one of his exhibitions was presented by the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester and, in 2002, his solo exhibitions were presented by the Naples Museum of Art in Florida and by the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine. In November 2004, his retrospective is exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.