Kristan Kennedy

Kennedy was born on October 28, 1972, in Brooklyn, New York City.{{Cite web |title=Kristan Kennedy |url=http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=11667;type=701 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029133924/http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=11667;type=701 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |access-date=8 July 2021 |website=Portland Art Museum}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Bernstein |first=Amy |date=5 September 2011 |title=Interview with Kristan Kennedy |url=http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2011/09/interview_with_14.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141122043832/http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2011/09/interview_with_14.html |archive-date=22 November 2014 |access-date=23 October 2024 |website=PortlandArt.net}}

Kennedy has taught art history at Portland State University (PSU) and at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA).{{When|date=July 2021}}{{Cite web |last=Elwood |first=Ethyl |date=29 August 2018 |title=Cooley Gallery Acquires Paintings by Kristan Kennedy |url=https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2018/cooley-art-kennedy.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710062517/https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2018/cooley-art-kennedy.html |archive-date=10 July 2024 |access-date=8 July 2021 |website=Reed Magazine |language=en-us}}

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.{{Cite web |last=Gormley |first=Shannon |date=31 October 2019 |title=A Portland Artist and Curator Has Been Appointed to the Board of Directors For a Major National Arts Organization |url=https://www.wweek.com/arts/visual-arts/2019/10/31/a-portland-artist-and-curator-has-been-appointed-to-the-board-of-directors-for-a-major-national-arts-organization/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029133924/https://www.wweek.com/arts/visual-arts/2019/10/31/a-portland-artist-and-curator-has-been-appointed-to-the-board-of-directors-for-a-major-national-arts-organization/ |archive-date=29 October 2023 |access-date=8 July 2021 |website=Willamette Week |language=en-US}} 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. In November 2017, Kennedy was promoted (alongside others) as an artistic director.{{cite web |last=McCann |first=Fiona |date=28 November 2017 |title=PICA Announces New Leadership Team |url=https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2017/11/pica-announces-new-leadership-team |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029133931/https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2017/11/pica-announces-new-leadership-team |archive-date=29 October 2023 |accessdate=20 March 2018 |website=Portland Monthly}}

She is the founding director of Portland's Precipice Fund, a grant for local emerging artists. Since 2019, she is a board of trustee at Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Art. Additionally, she sits on the advisory board for the Headlands Center for the Arts{{When|date=July 2021}} 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."{{cite web |title=PICA Staff |url=https://pica.org/about/staff |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241024-031112/https://pica.org/about/staff |archive-date=24 October 2024 |accessdate=2 March 2014 |website=Portland Institute for Contemporary Art}}

In April 2018, Kennedy was awarded the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Award,{{cite web |date=16 April 2018 |title=Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Award: Kristan Kennedy |url=https://events.reed.edu/event/bonne_bronson_fellowshiop_award_kristan_kennedy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029133925/https://events.reed.edu/event/bonne_bronson_fellowshiop_award_kristan_kennedy |archive-date=29 October 2023 |accessdate=18 April 2018 |website=Reed College}} 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."

Her printed ephemera work is held in several book collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Dartmouth College, and the New York Public Library.{{cite web |date=2010 |title=Exhibitions: The Quadratic Logogram of Almost Everything |url=http://halfdozengallery.com/guest-artists/kristan-kennedy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922141444/http://halfdozengallery.com/guest-artists/kristan-kennedy |archive-date=22 September 2018 |accessdate=2 March 2014 |website=Half/Dozen Gallery}}

A select list of exhibitions by Kennedy:

• 2017 – Other Colors, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon{{cite web |last1= |first1= |date=2017 |title=Exhibition: Other Colors |url=https://fourteen30.com/Other-Colors |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241024-033453/https://fourteen30.com/Other-Colors |archive-date=24 October 2024 |access-date=23 October 2024 |website=Fourteen30 Contemporary}}
• 2014 – Kristan Kennedy meets a clock, Soloway, Brooklyn, New York{{Cite web |last=Snyder |first=Stephanie |date=2014 |title=Kristan Kennedy - Soloway, Soloway |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/kristan-kennedy-205960/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029162632/https://www.artforum.com/events/kristan-kennedy-205960/ |archive-date=29 October 2023 |access-date=8 July 2021 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Dillon |first=Noah |date=26 June 2014 |title=Kristan Kennedy at Soloway |url=https://artcritical.com/2014/06/26/kristan-kennedy-at-soloway/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029133924/https://artcritical.com/2014/06/26/kristan-kennedy-at-soloway/ |archive-date=29 October 2023 |access-date=8 July 2021 |website=artcritical |language=en}}
• 2013 – Sleeper, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Exhibition: Sleeper |url=https://fourteen30.com/Sleeper |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241024-033900/https://fourteen30.com/Sleeper |archive-date=24 October 2024 |access-date=23 October 2024 |website=Fourteen30 Contemporary}}
• 2005 – Elizabeth Leach, Portland, Oregon

• 2021 – Unquiet Objects, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (now Oregon Contemporary), Oregon{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Briana |date=12 January 2021 |title=Art shows a bit more intense and cerebral this winter in Portland |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2021/01/art-shows-a-bit-more-intense-and-cerebral-this-winter-in-portland.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029133924/https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2021/01/art-shows-a-bit-more-intense-and-cerebral-this-winter-in-portland.html |archive-date=29 October 2023 |access-date=8 July 2021 |website=The Oregonian |publisher=The Oregonian |language=en}}
• 2017 – Tomorrow Tomorrow, curated by Wallace Whitney and Stephanie Snyder, Canada, Manhattan, New York{{Cite web |date=2017 |title=Kristan Kennedy at CANADA, New York |url=https://oregonvisualarts.org/kristan-kennedy-tomorrow-tomorrow/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029182400/https://oregonvisualarts.org/kristan-kennedy-tomorrow-tomorrow/ |archive-date=29 October 2023 |access-date=23 October 2024 |website=Oregon Visual Arts Ecology Project}}
• 2013 – OO, curated by Rob Halverson, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=OO at Misako & Rosen, Tokyo |url=https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/oo-at-misako-rosen-tokyo-7538 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241024-040518/https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/oo-at-misako-rosen-tokyo-7538 |archive-date=24 October 2024 |access-date=8 July 2021 |website=Contemporary Art Library |language=en}}
• 2013 – Paint Off/Paint On, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York{{Cite web |date=2 December 2013 |title=SFAQ Pick: 'Paint On, Paint Off' group exhibition at Halsey McKay, New York |url=https://www.sfaq.us/2013/12/sfaq-pick-paint-on-paint-off-group-exhibition-at-halsey-mckay-new-york/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029153941/https://www.sfaq.us/2013/12/sfaq-pick-paint-on-paint-off-group-exhibition-at-halsey-mckay-new-york/ |archive-date=29 October 2023 |access-date=8 July 2021 |website=SFAQ / NYAQ / LXAQ |language=en-US}}
• 2013 – Kristan Kennedy and Gunta Stolzl, Zzzzzzz, Brooklyn, New York{{Cite web |last=Dickover |first=Julie |date=2016 |title=Breaking the System: An Interview with Kristan Kennedy |url=http://atlengthmag.com/art/breaking-the-system-kristan-kennedy/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029133924/http://atlengthmag.com/art/breaking-the-system-kristan-kennedy/ |archive-date=29 October 2023 |access-date=8 July 2021 |website=At Length |language=en-US}}
• 2011 – Interior Margins, curated by Stephanie Snyder, Lumber Room, Portland, Oregon{{Cite web |last=Motley |first=John |date=30 November 2011 |title='Interior Margins,' featuring regional women artists working in abstraction |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/art/2011/11/interior_margins_featuring_reg.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029134146/https://www.oregonlive.com/art/2011/11/interior_margins_featuring_reg.html |archive-date=29 October 2023 |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=The Oregonian |publisher=}}{{Cite web |last=Scott |first=Aaron |date=26 January 2012 |title=Interior Margins at the Lumber Room |url=https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2012/01/interior-margins-at-the-lumber-room-january-2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029134145/https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2012/01/interior-margins-at-the-lumber-room-january-2012 |archive-date=29 October 2023 |access-date=8 July 2021 |website=Portland Monthly |language=en-US}}

• 2021 – Dreams of Unknown Islands, created by Sasha Wortzel and curated by Kristan Kennedy, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, Florida{{Cite web |last=Askew |first=Susan |date=16 January 2021 |title=New Exhibit at Oolite Arts Contemplates Losses of the Last Year, Urges the Possibility of a Better Future |url=https://www.remiamibeach.com/citywide/new-exhibit-at-oolite-arts-contemplates-losses-of-the-last-year-urges-the-possibility-of-a-better-future/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004092830/https://www.remiamibeach.com/citywide/new-exhibit-at-oolite-arts-contemplates-losses-of-the-last-year-urges-the-possibility-of-a-better-future/ |archive-date=4 October 2022 |access-date=8 July 2021 |website=ReMiamiBeach.com |language=en}}
• 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{{cite web |date=7 December 2010 |title=Feldman Gallery + Project Space Hosts Exhibition Curated by PICA's Kristan Kennedy |url=http://pnca.edu/news/press/5419 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061746/http://pnca.edu/news/press/5419 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |accessdate=2 March 2014 |website=Pacific Northwest College of Art |publisher=}}

• {{Cite book|last=Kennedy|first=Kristan|url=http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/28|title=F.W.P.C.Y.|publisher=Jank Editions, Publication Studio|year=2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303020531/http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/28|archive-date=2014-03-03}}

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