Kristan Kennedy

Kristan Kennedy (born 1972 in New York City) is an artist, curator, and educator in Portland, Oregon who has exhibited internationally. She works with various media including sculpture and painting.

Kennedy is the Visual Art curator at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) in Portland, Oregon.[1] Kennedy curates video, installation, music and new media projects for PICA's annual Time-Based Art Festival. She is the co-founder of the artist collective Swallow Press (x2) with artist Topher Sinkinson and their temporal public projects have been presented internationally. Her printed ephemera is held in several book collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Dartmouth College and the New York Public Library.[2]

In April 2018, Kennedy was awarded the Bonnie Bronson Award,[3] a prestigious regional award administered by Reed College that annually awards "a no-strings-attached cash prize to an artist of outstanding merit who lives and works in the Pacific Northwest."[3]

Career

Kennedy received her BFA from the New York State College of Art and Design at Alfred University, Alfred NY, with a concentration on Printmaking and New Media in 1994.

Kennedy currently teaches Contemporary Art History at Portland State University, where she also organizes their MFA Visiting Artist Program and Lecture Series.[1]

Kennedy was included in both the 1999 and 2006 Oregon Biennials at the Portland Art Museum.[4] Her work has been published in Plazm[5] and Nudity in Groups.

Kennedy began her long tenure at PICA as a volunteer and joined the Board of Trustees in 2002. She joined PICA's staff in 2003, managing public relations and marketing campaigns for the organization. In Summer 2005, Kennedy moved positions to manage the Visual Program.[6] On November 28, 2017, Kennedy was promoted along with Roya Amirsoleymani and Erin Boberg Doughton as Artistic Directors.[7]

At PICA, Kennedy oversees the Precipice Fund, a grant for artist-run organizations and collaborative projects in Portland, Oregon, as part of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program. Kennedy is represented by Fourteen30 Contemporary[8] in Portland, Oregon.

She sits on the advisory board for the Headlands Center for the Arts and is the former Board President of the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Kennedy represents PICA as a member of several emerging consortiums including the Visual Art Network, a pilot project of the National Performance Network. She has served as a juror, panelist, and advisor to several foundations and granting organizations, including Creative Capital, The Regional Arts and Culture Council, and Southern Exposure's Alternate Exposure Grants among others.[9]

Kennedy was invited to participate in "Curating People," a symposium at The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley on April 28 and 29, 2011.

Solo exhibitions
  • Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon 2017[10]
  • Soloway, Brooklyn, New York 2014
  • Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon 2013
  • Elizabeth Leach, Portland, Oregon 2005

Group exhibitions
  • Paint Off/Paint On, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY (2013)
  • Kristan Kennedy/Gunta Stölzl, Z, Brooklyn, NY (2013)
  • about desire, The White Box, Portland, OR (2013)
  • OO, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan, curated by Rob Halverson/C-o-o-l Art (2013)
  • NADA Hudson, Hudson, NY (2012)
  • GOLD, Salon du Mecredi, Festival of Independants, Sint Nicholaas Lyceum, Amsterdam (2012)
  • Interior Margins, curated by Stephanie Snyder, lumber room, Portland, OR (2011)
  • The Quadratic Logogram of Almost Everything, curated by Derek Franklin, Half/Dozen, Portland OR (2010)
  • Franklin, curated by Sam Korman, CarHole Gallery, Portland OR (2010)
  • Impossible Instruments/Future Flags, curated by Nathaniel Price, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR (2008)

Publications
  • F.W.P.C.Y. (Publication Studio, 2009)[11]

Curatorial
  • "…community declared itself a medium…", TBA Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, 2013
  • End Things, TBA Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, 2012
  • Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death, Feldman Gallery + Project Space, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), 2011[12]
  • Evidence of Bricks, TBA Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, 2011

References
  1. "PICA Staff and Leaderships". PICA. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  2. "Kristan Kennedy". Half/Dozen Gallery. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  3. "Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Award: Kristan Kennedy". Reed College. Reed College. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  4. "Kristan Kennedy". Art Talk AM on the Radio. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  5. "Kristan Kennedy". Plazm. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  6. "Kristan Kennedy Bio" (PDF). Portland State University - PSU. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  7. "PICA Announces New Leadership Team". Portland Monthly. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  8. "Fourteen30 Contemporary". Fourteen30 Contemporary.
  9. "PICA Staff and Leadership". Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, (PICA). Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  10. Kennedy, Kristan. "Other Colors, Exhibition". Fourteen30 Contemporary. Fourteen30 Contemporary.
  11. "F.W.P.C.Y." Publication Studio. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  12. "Feldman Gallery + Project Space Hosts Exhibition Curated by PICA's Kristan Kennedy". Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). Retrieved 2 March 2014.
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