Kristan Kennedy

Kristan Kennedy
Born	(1972-10-28) October 28, 1972 (age 52) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	New York State College of Ceramics
Employer(s)	Portland State University, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

Kristan Kennedy (born 1972) is an American artist, curator, educator and arts administrator. Kennedy is co-artistic director and curator of visual art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA).[1] She is based in Portland, Oregon, and has exhibited internationally, working with various media including sculpture and painting.

Early life and education

Kennedy was born on October 28, 1972, in Brooklyn, New York City.[2] She received her BFA degree in 1994 from the New York State College of Art and Design within the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, with a concentration on Printmaking and New Media. She moved to Portland, Oregon in 1995.[3]

Career

Kennedy has taught art history at Portland State University (PSU) and at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA).^[when?][4]

Kennedy is the co-artistic director and curator of visual art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) where she curates programs for the annual Time-Based Arts Festival.[5] She joined PICA's staff in 2003, managing public relations and marketing campaigns for the organization.[3] In summer 2005, Kennedy moved positions to manage the visual program. In November 2017, Kennedy was promoted (alongside others) as an artistic director.[6]

She is the founding director of Portland's Precipice Fund, a grant for local emerging artists.[5] Since 2019, she is a board of trustee at Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Art.[5] Additionally, she sits on the advisory board for the Headlands Center for the Arts^[when?] and is the former Board President of the Independent Publishing Resource Center. 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."[7]

In April 2018, Kennedy was awarded the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Award,[8] 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."[8]

Her printed ephemera work is held in several book collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Dartmouth College, and the New York Public Library.[9]

Exhibitions

A select list of exhibitions by Kennedy:

Solo exhibitions

• 2017 – Other Colors, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon[10]
• 2014 – Kristan Kennedy meets a clock, Soloway, Brooklyn, New York[11][12]
• 2013 – Sleeper, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon[13]
• 2005 – Elizabeth Leach, Portland, Oregon

Group exhibitions

• 2021 – Unquiet Objects, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (now Oregon Contemporary), Oregon[14]
• 2017 – Tomorrow Tomorrow, curated by Wallace Whitney and Stephanie Snyder, Canada, Manhattan, New York[15]
• 2013 – OO, curated by Rob Halverson, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan[16]
• 2013 – Paint Off/Paint On, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York[17]
• 2013 – Kristan Kennedy and Gunta Stolzl, Zzzzzzz, Brooklyn, New York[18]
• 2011 – Interior Margins, curated by Stephanie Snyder, Lumber Room, Portland, Oregon[19][20]

Curation work

• 2021 – Dreams of Unknown Islands, created by Sasha Wortzel and curated by Kristan Kennedy, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, Florida[21]
• 2011 – Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death, Feldman Gallery + Project Space, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon[22]

Publications

• Kennedy, Kristan (2009). F.W.P.C.Y. Jank Editions, Publication Studio. Archived from the original on 2014-03-03.

References

1. Stangel, Matt (6 September 2012). "Interview: PICA Visual Art Curator Kristan Kennedy (On All Things End Things)". Portland Mercury. Archived from the original on 24 October 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
2. "Kristan Kennedy". Portland Art Museum. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
3. Bernstein, Amy (5 September 2011). "Interview with Kristan Kennedy". PortlandArt.net. Archived from the original on 22 November 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
4. Elwood, Ethyl (29 August 2018). "Cooley Gallery Acquires Paintings by Kristan Kennedy". Reed Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
5. Gormley, Shannon (31 October 2019). "A Portland Artist and Curator Has Been Appointed to the Board of Directors For a Major National Arts Organization". Willamette Week. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
6. McCann, Fiona (28 November 2017). "PICA Announces New Leadership Team". Portland Monthly. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
7. "PICA Staff". Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Archived from the original on 24 October 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
8. "Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Award: Kristan Kennedy". Reed College. 16 April 2018. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
9. "Exhibitions: The Quadratic Logogram of Almost Everything". Half/Dozen Gallery. 2010. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
10. "Exhibition: Other Colors". Fourteen30 Contemporary. 2017. Archived from the original on 24 October 2024. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
11. Snyder, Stephanie (2014). "Kristan Kennedy - Soloway, Soloway". Artforum. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
12. Dillon, Noah (26 June 2014). "Kristan Kennedy at Soloway". artcritical. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
13. "Exhibition: Sleeper". Fourteen30 Contemporary. 2013. Archived from the original on 24 October 2024. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
14. Miller, Briana (12 January 2021). "Art shows a bit more intense and cerebral this winter in Portland". The Oregonian. The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
15. "Kristan Kennedy at CANADA, New York". Oregon Visual Arts Ecology Project. 2017. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
16. "OO at Misako & Rosen, Tokyo". Contemporary Art Library. 2012. Archived from the original on 24 October 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
17. "SFAQ Pick: 'Paint On, Paint Off' group exhibition at Halsey McKay, New York". SFAQ / NYAQ / LXAQ. 2 December 2013. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
18. Dickover, Julie (2016). "Breaking the System: An Interview with Kristan Kennedy". At Length. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
19. Motley, John (30 November 2011). "'Interior Margins,' featuring regional women artists working in abstraction". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
20. Scott, Aaron (26 January 2012). "Interior Margins at the Lumber Room". Portland Monthly. Archived from the original on 29 October 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
21. Askew, Susan (16 January 2021). "New Exhibit at Oolite Arts Contemplates Losses of the Last Year, Urges the Possibility of a Better Future". ReMiamiBeach.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
22. "Feldman Gallery + Project Space Hosts Exhibition Curated by PICA's Kristan Kennedy". Pacific Northwest College of Art. 7 December 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2014.

External links

• Kristan Kennedy tumblr