Kristan Kennedy

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EVENTS + CONTRIBUTIONS

Panel Discussion: When Presenters Become Curators/When Curators Become Presenters

Curating People: Kristan Kennedy

Curating People: Post-Show Paraphrase

Contact

Topics

Curatorial topic page, Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer topic page
Job title: 
Artist, Educator, and Co-Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Bio/CV: 

Kristan Kennedy is a Portland-based artist, curator, and educator.  Kennedy the Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). For the last decade, Kennedy has focused on commissioning new work by international emerging artists in the form of large-scale, site-specific installations and solo projects that exist at the borders of genres. Kennedy takes an expansive view of visual art and also organizes music, performance art, publications, social engagement and new media projects as part of PICA’s year-round programming and for the organization’s annual Time-Based Art Festival. Kennedy teaches Contemporary Art and Critical Thinking at the Pacific Northwest College of Art as part of their MFA in Visual Studies department. She is represented by Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon.