BRIGID KENNEDY, Artist
Solo Exhibitions/Installations
2023 Gallery On The Green. Canton, CT. ‘Inside/Outside’, Invitation.
2022 ARTWALK, Hartford Public Library, Hartford, CT. ‘Visual Narratives’. Juried Invitational.
2021 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT, When Mercy Seasons Justice, Judith McElhone, Director. Invitation
2020 Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, ‘Solos 2020’, Juried Invitational.
2018 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT. ‘The Morphology of Gratitude’, Judith McElhone, Director. Juried Invitation
2016 Barnes-Franklin Gallery, Farmington, CT. ‘Dialogue”. Invitation.
2015 Governors Island, Sculptors Guild, NY, NY. ‘State of Play,’ installation, Invitation.
2010 Connecticut Casualty Company Gallery, ‘ Plainville, CT. ‘Sculpture & Drawing’. Invitation.
1996 Miriam B. Butterworth Gallery, Hartford, CT. ‘Sculpture and Drawings’, Invitation.
1994 Universidad Católica,Temuco, Chile. Fulbright Fellowship. Outdoor Installation: ‘Chuuuta!’.
1993 Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT. ‘Recession Series’. Invitation.
1992 Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT. ‘The Bardo’, an installation,. Invitation.
1991 Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. ‘Inequities’. Invitation
Promenade Gallery, Bushnell Theater, Misplaced Metaphors, Hartford, CT
1989 Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Sculpture & Drawings, Hartford, CT
1988 Creative Time, Inc., Brooklyn Bridge Art in the Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY
1987 Sculpture Space, Samsara, outdoor installation at Utica College, Utica, NY
Galerie Babel, Heilbronn, Germany. ‘Leavetaking’, outdoor installation. Invitation.
1985 Houston Festival Bayou Show, Houston, TX. ‘Glomming’, installation. Invitation.
1984 Artpark, Lewiston, NY, 'Guess Who', outdoor installation, Invitation.
The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. ‘Free Ride’, outdoor installation, Visiting Professor.
1983 The Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, NY. ‘Fortified Figures’, Invitation.
The Port Authority Bus Terminal, NY, NY. 'Naked Raid, installation. Invitation.
1981 Galerie Babel, Heilbronn, Germany. ‘Gefangnis’, outdoor installation, Invitation.
Artists Space, NY, NY. ‘Naked Raid’, installation, Juried Invitation
1980 Wave Hill, , Bronx, NY. ‘Temporal Structures’, outdoor installation. Invitation.
1977 Artpark, Lewiston, NY. ‘Markala’, outdoor installation, Juried Invitation
Group Exhibitions
2024 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT. ‘Home Sweet Home’, (four artists), Ellen Hawley, Curator, Juried Invitation.
Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT. ‘New Members Exhibition’. Invitation.
Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT. ‘Every Picture Tells A Story’, Juried Invitation.
2023 First Street Gallery, NY, NY. ‘Small Works Invitational’. Juried Invitation.
Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT. ‘73rd A-ONE Exhibition’, Juried Invitation.
Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves… Fifty Years On’. Juried Invitation.
First Street Gallery, , NY, NY. 2023 National Juried Exhibition, ‘Nocturne’, Juror Susana Coffey, artist. Juried Invitation.
Greenwich Art Society, NY, NY. Juror David Max Horowitz, Assistant Curator Guggenheim Museum, Juried Invitation.
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT. ‘Mixmaster 2023’, Juror Elizabeth Thompson, Director, Anita Rogers Gallery, Juried Invitation.
Odetta Digital Exhibition, ‘Entry Point’, NY, NY. Invitation.
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY. ‘59th Annual Member Exhibition’, Invitation.
2022 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT. ‘10th Anniversary Exhibition’, Invitation.
Carriage Trade Gallery, NY, NY. ‘Untitled (Hands)’, Invitation.
Stola Contemporary Art, Chicago IL. ‘Democracy in Danger’, Juried Invitation.
The Painting Center, NY, NY, ‘Break of Day, Edge of Night’, Juried Invitation.
Prince Street Gallery, NY, NY. ‘National Annual Juried Exhibition’, Juror: Anne Harris, Juried Invitation.
Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT. ‘62nd Anniversary Exhibition’, Invitation.
The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD, ‘National Juried Exhibition’,Juried Invitation.
Odetta Gallery Digital Exhibition, , NY, NY ‘Serious Play’, Juried Invitation.
Odetta Gallery Digital Exhibition, NY, NY. ‘Spinning Plates’, Invitation.
2021 Odetta Gallery Digital Exhibition, NY, NY. ‘Flow!’, Invitation.
dodomu gallery, online exhibition, NY, NY. ‘New Contemporaries’, Juried Invitation.
Prince Street Gallery, NY, NY. ‘National Annual Juried Exhibition’.
Odetta Gallery Digital Exhibition, NY, NY, ‘Refresh!,’ Invitation.
Barnes-Franklin Gallery, Farmington, CT. ‘Invitational Exhibition’.
2019 EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT. ‘Inside Out Project’. Invitation.
Five Points Annex Gallery, Torrington, CT. ‘Nature vs Nurture’, Invitation
2018 Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, ‘Mixmaster 2018’, Juror: Sara Shaoul, Juried Invitation.
2017 Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY. ‘Art in Craft Media 2017’. Juried Invitation.
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT. ‘Nor’easter Juried Members’ Exhibition’.
Golden Thread Gallery, West Hartford, CT. ‘Art In Motion’. Juried Invitation
Westbeth Gallery, NY, NY. Sculptors Guild. ‘Currently 80’. Juried Invitation
Governors Island, Sculptors Guild, NY, NY. ‘American Twist’. Juried Invitation
2016 The Golden Thread Gallery, West Hartford, CT. ‘Members Exhibition’.
2015 Governors Island, Sculptors Guild, NY, NY. ‘Laws Of Attraction’. Juried Invitation.
2014 Windsor REAP Street Pop-Up Festival, Windsor, CT. Storefront installation. Invitation.
2013 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT. ‘Nor’easter Juried Members’ Exhibition’.
2012 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT. ‘Nor’easter Juried Members’ Exhibition’.
2010 UB Gallery, Buffalo, NY. ‘ArtPark:1974–1984’. Invitation
2005 Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Mayville, NY. ‘48th Annual Juried Exhibition’.
1997 Keeney Center Gallery, Wethersfield, CT. ‘Fashion/Fiction: Clothing as Metaphor’. Invitation.
1995 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT. ‘Inspiring Contrasts’, Invitation.
Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT. ‘Annual Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition’.
1994 Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY. ‘X-Sightings '94’. Invitation.
1993 Zone Art Center, Springfield, MA. ‘Highway Billboard Juried Exhibition’.
Walter Reed Gallery, University of Maine, Presque Isle, ME. ‘11th Annual Maine/Maritime Flatworks Exhibition’.
Keeney Cultural Center, Wethersfield, CT. ‘Women: Objects, Objectives, Objections’. Invitation.
1992 deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. ‘11 Artists/ 11 Visions: 1992’.
1991 Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX, ‘Small-Scale Sculpture,’. Curated by George Smith. Invitation
Deland Museum of Art, Deland, FL. ‘National Juried Sculpture Exhibition’. Juror - Donald Kuspit.
1989 Triplex Gallery, Borough of Manhattan Community College, NY, NY. ‘Image & Possibility’. Invitation.
1988 The Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY. ‘Subject in Art,’. Invitation.
The Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, ‘20 in NY’, Invitation.
1986 The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY, NY. ‘Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts’.
P.S.122, NY, NY, ‘Natural Sources/Abstract Sculpture’. Invitation.
1985 The Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, ‘Ten Gallery Artists’.
Pratt Galleries Manhattan, NY, NY, ‘In Three Dimensions’. Invitation.
1984 The Manhattan Art Gallery, NY, NY, ‘ArtPark 1984’. Invitation.
The Sculpture Center, NY, NY. ‘Transformation of the Minimal,’. Invitation.
1982 The Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, ‘19 in NY’. Invitation.
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. ‘CAPS Sculptors 1981/82’. Invitation.
Just above Midtown/Downtown, NY, NY. ‘Decision By Arms?’. Invitation.
1981 Fifty-Five Mercer Gallery, NY, NY. ‘Salt & Pepper Sperm Banks’. Juried Invitation.
1980 P.S.1, Long Island City, NY. ‘Group Exhibition: Artists in Residence’.
1979 Yale University, A&A Gallery, New Haven, CT. Thesis Exhibition,.
1978 Artists Space, NY, NY. ‘ArtPark 1977’. Invitation.
1977 The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. ‘WNY Invitational’.
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. ‘Summerspace’. Invitation.
1976 The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. ‘In WNY’, Juried Invitation.
Grants, Honors and Awards
2018 Mattatuck Museum, Juror’s Selection: ”Broken III”, juror Sara Shaoul
2017 West Hartford Art League, CT + 6, Richeson Art Award for Sculpture
2016 Golden Thread Gallery Members’ Exhibition, ‘Best in Show’, awarded by
Tom Loughman, PhD, Director, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
2001 Individual Artist Fellowship Grant, Greater Hartford Arts Council, Hartford, CT
1994 Fulbright Scholar Lecture/Research Award To Chile, Concepcion, Chile
1994 Fulbright Guest Lecturer, Salón Blanco, Museo De Bellas Artes,
"Contemporary North American, Women Sculptors", Santiago, Chile
1991 State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Artists Project Grant, Hartford, CT
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, NY, NY
1988 Art Matters, Inc. Grant to complete RINPOCHE, built for Creative Time's
"Art in the Anchorage" exhibition in the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
1982/83 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, Washington, DC
1981/82 Creative Artists Public Service (Caps) Grant for Sculpture, NY, NY
1980 National Endowment for the Arts, Emerging Artists Fellowship, Washington, DC
Committee for the Visual Arts, Grant to complete sculpture exhibited at P.S.1,
Long Island City, NY
1979 National Endowment for the Arts, Emerging Artists Fellowship, Washington, DC
Yale University, School of Art, Pardee Prize for Sculpture, New Haven, CT
1978 Ford Foundation Special Projects Grants (2), Yale University, School of Art,
New Haven, CT
Ford Foundation Summer Travel Grant, Courtesy of Yale University,
School of Art, Researched American Folk Art and vernacular architecture in the South
& Southwest USA
1976 The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Alexander Menno Reeb Award for Sculpture Buffalo, NY
The Rumsey Travel Fellowship, Courtesy of SUNY Buffalo, Art Department;
traveled to Mali and Ghana to research West African architecture
Curatorial, Collaboration & Production Experience
2018 Five Points Gallery Small Works Exhibition, Juror
2001 Wadsworth Atheneum, Guest Artist speaking on ‘The Artist’s Studio: Alexander Calder”
1994 Museo De Bellas Artes, Guest Lecturer, Santiago, Chile, "Contemporary North American Women Sculptors"
Sala Salazar, "Katherine Sherwood: Bingo Drawings", Curator, Concepcion, Chile
1992 Mobius, Installation: "The Bardo"/Set Design Collaboration with Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble, Boston, MA
1988 Broadcast Arts, Inc., Modelmaker and Puppeteer for "The Colonel Boogie Show”, NY, NY
1987 Broadcast Arts, Inc., Modelmaker for "Pee Wee’s Playhouse", NY, NY
Island Records, set construction and painting for "Eric B & Rakeem", NY, NY
1980 La MaMa Experimental Theater Company, NYC, Production Assistant and
Art Educator in the NYC Public Schools, sponsored by the C.E.T.A. Program, NY, NY
1978 Yale Repertory Theater, Production Assistant, New Haven CT
Artist-in-Residence
1986 Sculpture Space, Funded Residency, Utica, NY
1985 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1985 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY.
1983 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1981/82. P.S.1, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, L.I.C., NY.
1980 The Clocktower, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, NY, NY.
Bibliography
2021 Republican-American, March 19, “Pandemic Ponderings,” Tracey O’Shaughnessy
2015 Wethersfield Life, Artist Works with Transformation, Governors Island, Sculpture installation
1994 The Hartford Courant, Functional Objects Find New Form, Laura Marks
1994 El Diario Austral, Temuco, Chile, November 4, "Los Zapatos Cuelgan de los Arboles",
Sol Arriagada
1994 El Sur, Concepcion, Chile, October 30, "Brigid Kennedy, Una Humanizadora del Arte", Sergio Ramon Fuentealba
1994 Sculpture, March, Connecticut Review, Jude Schwendenwien
1993 Hartford Advocate, April 15, "Letter by Letter", Sal Scalora.
1993 The Hartford Courant, March 14, "A Strong Showing of Women's Art", Jude Schwendenwien
1992 The Trinity Tripod, March 17, Fragments of The Bardo at Widener Gallery, Anne Weeks
1992 The Boston Phoenix, July 3, "Re: Visions", deCordova Museum New England Artists Exhibition
1992 The Boston Globe, July 8, "New Angle on Man, Nature in 11 Visions", deCordova Museum exhibition
1991 The Hartford Courant, March 3, "Kennedy's Work is at its Best When Abstract", Jude Schwendenwein
1991 The Hartford Advocate, Mixing Metaphors and Media, Wendy Jackson
1988 The New York Times, July, "Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage Exhibition"
1985 The Buffalo News, September 9, "Ten Artists Play With The Meaning Of Things", Richard Huntington
1984 The Buffalo News, July 29, ArtpPark Artist’s Advice to Viewers: ‘Have Fun’, Anthony Bannon
1983 Bomb Magazine, No. 6, Sculpture & Fiction, p. 52
1980 The New York Times, July 8, "Wave Hill Offers A Cool Site For Sculpture", John Russell
1980 The Village Voice, July 8, "Meditation Can Be Fun", Carrie Rickey
1980 ArtForum, October, Reviews: "Temporal Structures", Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
1977 The Buffalo News, July 3, The Simplicity of Children, Anthony Bannon
Education
Yale University, School of Art, Sculpture, M.F.A. 1979
State University of New York at Buffalo, Sculpture, B.F.A. 1976
University of Toronto, St. Michael's College, Toronto, Canada
University of Católica, Pedagogy Certificate, Quito, Ecuador, 1970
Collections
The Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
New Britain Museum of American, New Britain, CT
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Trikon Investment Co., Jacksonville, FL
Nichols School, Buffalo, NY
Contact:
brigidkennedy5@gmail.com
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