In 1953 after being sent in Germany by the United States Army he was trained in photolithography and aerial reconnaissance photography.
In 1957 he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology, located in New York.
[1] After earning his master's degree in 1960 Kenneth Josephson worked at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1960 to 1997, when he retired.
In 1975 and in 1979 he was awarded the NEA grant by the National Endowment for the Arts agency.
[1] In 1977 and 1983 many of his works became part of exhibitions in Austria, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and France.