CHRISTOPHER LEE KENNEDY
(201) 981-1576
artiscycle@gmail.com
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EDUCATION
2014 • Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies • University of North Carolina • Greensboro, NC
2007 • M.A. in Education • New York University • New York, NY
2005 • B.S. in Environmental Engineering • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Troy, NY
RECENT GRANT AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2015-16 • Pratt Institute RiDE Fellowship to support Museum Futures program
2013-14 • North Carolina Arts Council, Arts in Education Residency Level II
2013 • Guilford Green Foundation Fund, grant award for LGBTQ+ youth program
2012 • Federal Community Block Grant grant to support Elsewhere Solar Potentials program
2011 • UNC Luther Winborne Self Fellowship to fund dissertation research
Greensboro Community Foundation Future Fund grant to support CoLab
2009 • Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance fellowship.
2008 • New York State Council on the Arts grant for Citysol Art Festival at Solar One.
Hudson River Estuaries Program, grant awarded for Oyster Gardening initiative with the NY/NJ Baykeeper at Solar One.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014-2016 • Assistant Professor • Pratt Institute • Brooklyn, NY
2011-2014 • Instructor • University of North Carolina • Greensboro, NC
2010-2014 • Education Curator • Elsewhere Museum • Greensboro, NC
2007-2010 • Education Director • Solar One • New York, NY
2006-2007 • Design Education Coordinator • Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment • Brooklyn, NY
2005-2006 • Education Supervisor • Hudson River Park Trust • New York, NY
2004-2005 • Environmental Technician • NYS Department of Environmental Conservation • Albany, NY
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS & EXHIBITIONS
2016 • hiway/hiway, group exhibition for Chance Ecologies: Queens, at the Queens Museum, NY.
Cole, My Sooner Love, curated exhibition, with/in, at Art League Houston, Texas.
2015 • An Atlas of Endangered Surfaces, curated group show for exhibition, Chance Ecologies at Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, NY.
2014 • Storybank, commissioned project for the exhibition, Out of the Shadows: Gay America from Kinsey to Stonewall, Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC.
At-hand: A Generalist’s Archive, solo exhibition of works, Nancy Ross Project Space, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
2013 • Cabinet of Curiosities, an Elsewhere collaboration for the exhibition, Here, at the Philadelphia Academy of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
Museum of Natural History, an Elsewhere collaboration for the exhibition The People’s Biennial, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
99 Books About Love on the Wall, commissioned installation for the exhibition, More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC.
The Listening Story of No Words, performance created for the Art in Odd Places Festival, Greensboro, NC.
2012 • Groups and Spaces, installation and performance at Basekamp, Philadelphia, PA.
(New) City Field Guide, installation commissioned for exhibition Recycling the Studio at the Harlem Workspace, New York, NY.
School of the Future, installation created for curated group show, 5 Social Victories at KidYellin Gallery, New York, NY.
2011 • Art/Value/Currency, curated group show at The Pigeon Wing Gallery. London, UK.
2010 • Artiscycle, exhibition of works from residency at InCUBATE, Chicago, IL.
2009 • Collective Despacho, commissioned project for the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art’s Peekskill Project, Peekskill, NY.
Collective Medicine Wheel No. 1, commissioned project for Bushwick Open Studios, NY.
2008 • Unoccupied Spaces: A Message From Below, group show at Clarke Gallery, Montreal, CA.
Unseen Energies, group show and performance at Lumenhouse, Brooklyn, NY.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Kennedy, C. L. (2016). Let it decay: Cultural precarity in the Anthropocene. The Miami Rail, Fall 2016.
Kennedy, C. L., Cardwell, E., Spencer, R. & Austin, P. (2016). Introduction: Teaching Black Lives Matter. Co-Editor, Radical Teacher, 106, 1-13.
Kennedy, C. L. & Scheer, G. (2016). Places already made: Reflections on Elsewhere’s South Elm Projects. Journal of Art for Life, 8(1), 45-63.
Kennedy, C. L. & Holt, A. (2016). Tracing the horizon: iLAND as radical archive practice and pedagogy. Radical Teacher, 105, 61-68.
Kennedy, C. L. (2016). Mycological provisions: John Cage, mushrooms and emergent eco-pedagogies. Journal of Artistic Research, Volume 10.
Kennedy, C. L. & Irons, E. (2016). An atlas of endangered surfaces: Transient urban spaces in the Anthropocene. Temporary Art Review, Special Issue: The Anthropocene.
___. (2015). Review: ‘Institutional Time: A critique of studio art education’. Radical Teacher, 104, p. 78-81.
___. (2011). School of the Future. Hand made: Portraits of emergent new community culture. T. Britton (Ed.). London, UK: Royal College of Arts.
___. (2013). Artist run spaces of the future. Artlink Magazine: Experiments Issue, 32(3), 134-137.
Kennedy, C. L. (2010). Groups and spaces: Mapping collaborative cultural production and social art practices. Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, 2(3).