BRIGID KENNEDY
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
Solo Exhibitions/Installations
2018 ‘The Morphology of Gratitude’, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2016 ‘Dialogue’, Barnes-Franklin Gallery, Tunxis Community College
2015 ‘State of Play’, supported by Sculptors Guild, Installation on Governors Island,
NY, NY
2010 Brigid Kennedy: A Retrospective Exhibition, Connecticut Casualty
Company Gallery, Plainville, CT
1996 Miriam B. Butterworth Gallery, Hartford College for Women, 'Sculpture and
Drawings, Hartford, CT
1994 Universidad Católica, Outdoor Installation: "Chuuuta!", Temuco, Chile
1993 Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, 'Recession Series',
Manchester, CT
1992 Widener Gallery, Trinity College, 'The Bardo', an installation, Hartford, CT
1991 Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, 'Inequities', Allentown, PA
Promenade Gallery, Bushnell Theatre, 'Misplaced Metaphors', Hartford, CT
1989 Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Sculpture & Drawings, Hartford, CT
1988 Brooklyn Bridge Art in the Anchorage, sponsored by Creative Time, Inc.,
Brooklyn, NY
1987 Sculpture Space, 'Samsara', Utica, NY
Galerie Babel, 'Leavetaking', Heilbronn, Germany
1985 Houston Festival Bayou Show, `Glomming', Houston, TX
1984 Artpark, 'Guess Who', Outdoor Sculpture, Lewiston, NY
The Colorado College, 'Free Ride', Colorado Springs, CO
1983 The Burchfield Art Center, 'Fortified Figures', Buffalo, NY
The Port Authority Bus Terminal, 'Naked Raid', NYC
1981 Galerie Babel, Outdoor Sculpture: 'Gefangnis', Heilbronn, Germany
Artists Space, Installation: 'Naked Raid', NY
1980 Wave Hill, 'Temporal Structures', Bronx, NY
1977 Artpark, 'Markala', Site Specific Installation, Lewiston, NY
Group Exhibitions
2019 ‘Inside Out Project: Hartford’, EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT
2018 ‘Mixmaster 2018’, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, juried by Sara Shaoul,
Director 601ArtSpace in New York City
2017 ‘Art in Craft Media 2017’, Juror: Monica Moses, Burchfield Penney Art Center,
Buffalo, NY
‘CT + 6’, Juror: Ming Jung Kim, Director, New Britain Museum of American Art,
West Hartford, Art League, West Hartford, CT
‘Art In Motion’, Golden Thread Gallery, West Hartford, CT
‘Currently 80’, Curator: John Yau, Poet, Critic, Writer, Sculptors Guild,
Westbeth Gallery, NY, NY
2016 ‘American Twist’, Curator: Sasha Davis Curator of Collections, The Renee & Chaim
Gross Foundation, Sculptors Guild, Governors Island, NY, NY
2016 Members Exhibition, The Golden Thread Gallery, West Hartford, CT, received
Best in Show juried by Thomas J. Loughman, Director Wadsworth Atheneum,
2015 ‘Laws Of Attraction’, Sculptors Guild, curated by Richard Timperio, Governors Island,
NYC
2014 Windsor REAP Street Pop-Up Festival, Windsor, CT, storefront installation
2013 New Britain Museum of American Art Members Exhibition
2012 New Britain Museum of American Art, Members Exhibition, New Britain, CT
2010 ARTPARK: 1974–1984. UB Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2005 Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, 48th Annual Chautauqua Exhibition, Mayville, NY
1997 Keeney Center Gallery, "Fashion/Fiction: Clothing as Metaphor", Wethersfield, CT
1995 Aldrich Museum, "Inspiring Contrasts", Curated by John Cusano, CT Commission on the
Arts, Ridgefield, CT
Annual Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford,
West Hartford, CT
1994 Anderson Gallery, "X-Sightings '94", Buffalo, NY
1993 Zone Art Center, "Highway Billboard Exhibition", Juror: Suzi Gablik; Springfield, MA
Walter Reed Gallery, "The 11th Annual Maine/Maritime Flatworks Exhibition",
University of Maine, Presque Isle, ME
Keeney Cultural Center, "Women: Objects, Objectives, Objections",
Juror: Jeanette Ingberman (Director - Exit Art),
Women’s Caucus for Art - CT, Wethersfield, CT
1992 deCordova Museum, "11 Artists/ 11 Visions: 1992", Lincoln, MA
1991 Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, "Small-Scale Sculpture", Houston, TX
Deland Museum of Art, "National Sculpture Exhibition", Juror: Donald Kuspit, Deland, FL
1989 Triplex Gallery, Borough of Manhattan Community College, "Image & Possibility," NY, NY
1988 The Burchfield Penney Art Center, "Subject in Art", Buffalo, NY
The Nina Freudenheim Gallery, "20 in NY", Buffalo, NY
1986 The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY, NY
P.S.122, "Natural Sources/Abstract Sculpture", NY, NY
1985 The Nina Freudenheim Gallery, "Ten Gallery Artists", Buffalo, NY
Pratt Galleries Manhattan, "In Three Dimensions", NY, NY
1984 The Manhattan Art Gallery, "ArtPark 1984", NY, NY
The Sculpture Center, "Transformation of the Minimal", NY, NY.
1982 The Nina Freudenheim Gallery, "19 in NY", Buffalo, NY
The Hudson River Museum, "CAPS Sculptors 1981/82", Yonkers, NY
Just above Midtown/Downtown, "Decision By Arms?”, NY, NY
1981 Fifty-Five Mercer Gallery, Installation: 'Salt & Pepper Sperm Banks', NY, NY
1980 P.S.1, "Group Exhibition: Artists in Residence", Long Island City, NY
1979 Yale University, A&A Gallery, Thesis Exhibition, New Haven, CT
1978 Artists Space, "ArtPark 1977", NY, NY
1977 The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, "WNY Invitational", Buffalo, NY
Hallwalls, "Summerspace", Buffalo, NY
1976 The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, "In WNY", curated by Linda Cathcart, Buffalo, NY
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’ for ‘Salt’, 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
1992 Mobius, Installation: 'The Bardo’, Set Design Collaboration with Judy Dworin
Performance Ensemble, Boston, MA
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
Broadcast Arts, Inc., NYC, Model maker and Puppeteer for ‘The Colonel Boogie Show’
Island Records, set construction and painting for "Eric B & Rakem", NY, NY
1987 Broadcast Arts, Inc., Model maker for "The Pee Wee Herman Show", NY, NY
1986 Sculpture Space, Funded Residency, Utica, NY
1985 The MacDowell Colony, Funded Residency, Peterborough, NH
Yaddo, Funded Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
1983 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1981 P.S.1, Artist Studio, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, L.I.C., NY
1980 The Clocktower, Artist Studio, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, NY, 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,
L.I.C., 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, February.
2001 Wadsworth Atheneum, Guest Artist speaking on ‘The Artist’s Studio: Alexander Calder”,
Thursday Evening Gallery Talk, July.
1998 Student Representative & Speaker, Alternate Route to Certification, Graduation,
August 6, 1996, Kingswood-Oxford, West Hartford, CT
1994 Guest Lecturer, Salon Blanco,
Museo De Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, "Contemporary North American
Women Sculptors".
Curator, "Katherine Sherwood: Bingo Drawings", Sala Salazar, Concepcion, Chile.
1992 Mobius, Boston, MA, Installation: "The Bardo"/Set Design Collaboration with
Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble
1988 Broadcast Arts, Inc., NYC, Model maker and Puppeteer for "The Colonel Boogie Show
Island Records, NYC, set construction/painting for "Eric B & Rakeem"
1987 Broadcast Arts, Inc., NYC, Model maker for "The Pee Wee Herman Show".
1980 La MaMa Experimental Theater Company, NYC, Production Assistant and Art
Teacher in the NYC Public Schools, sponsored by the C.E.T.A. Program.
1978 Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, CT, Production Assistant.
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 P.S.1, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, L.I.C., NY.
1980 The Clocktower, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, NY, NY.
Collections
The Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Trikon Investment Co., Jacksonville, FL
Nichols School, Buffalo NY
Bibliography
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, Artpark 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
Contact
brigidkennedy5@gmail.com