Katherine Kennedy
Katherine Kennedy is an artist and writer. She graduated with a BA in Creative Arts (First Class Hons.) from Lancaster University, UK. She has won multiple awards for her artwork and writing in her home Barbados, and has exhibited locally, regionally and internationally. She currently works for the Fresh Milk Art Platform in Barbados as the Communications and Operations Manager, and has contributed to ARC Magazine of contemporary Caribbean art as a Writer, Editor and the Assistant to Director. Her visual practice is heavily tied to a sense of place, using interplay between organic and inorganic materials and imagery to interrogate the spectrum of belonging and displacement in different environments or cultural contexts.
Katherine has undertaken projects and residencies at the Insituto Buena Bista (IBB), Curaçao (2012); The Vermont Studio Center, USA (2013); Casa Tomada, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2013); Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany on a fellowship awarded by ResArtis (2014); and Punch Creative Arena, Barbados (2019). In 2015, Katherine received an Honourable Mention in the inaugural Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing competition. She has co-managed three editions of the international digital exhibition Transoceanic Visual Exchange in 2015, 2017 and 2019 as well as the Caribbean Linked IV and V residency programmes and exhibitions which took place in 2016 and 2018 respectively at Ateliers '89 in Aruba. She made her debut as a solo-curator with the exhibition Social Geometry: Expanded Drawing Practices by Barbadian Artists at the Queen’s Park Gallery, Bridgetown, Barbados in May 2019.
Arts CV
Education:
2008-2011 Lancaster University, England: BA Creative Arts (First Class Hons.)
Specialized in Fine Art and Creative Writing
2001-2008 Harrison College, Barbados
Employment:
2012-Present Communications & Operations Manager, The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados
2016-2018 Acting Director, The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados
2013-2018 Editor and Assistant to Director, ARC Magazine, St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Artist Residencies (Participant):
2018 PunchIN 3, Punch Creative Arena, Barbados
2014 Three month fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2013 fresh casa, Casa Tomada, Brazil
2013 One month residency at The Vermont Studio Center, USA
2012 Creatives in Conversation, Instituto Buena Bista, Curaçao
2012 Five Days of Play, The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados
Artist Residencies (Coordinator):
2012-2020 Coordination of artist residencies and community outreach programming for local, regional
and international artists at The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados
2020 Caribbean Linked V!, Ateliers '89, Aruba
2018 Caribbean Linked V, Ateliers ’89, Aruba
2016 Caribbean Linked IV, Ateliers ’89, Aruba
Exhibitions (Artist):
2020 Re:Mediate, The Clemente Gallery, New York City, USA (upcoming)
2020 Public Art Interventions into the Flower Forest, Facilitated by Punch Creative Arena, Barbados (upcoming)
2019 'The Big Reveal', PunchIN 3 residency showcase, Punch Creative Arena, Barbados
2018 Artistic Interventions, The Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Barbados
2016 Rum Retort, Tobacco Warehouse, Greenock, Scotland
2016 Las Antillas para los Antillanos, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, USA
2016 Caribbean Linked IV Exhibition, Ateliers ’89, Aruba
2016 Quaternary: Four Barbadian Female Artists, Gallery NuEdge, Barbados
2016 Digital, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Jamaica
2015 TVE - Transoceanic Visual Exchange, The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados;
RM, New Zealand; Video Art Network Lagos, Nigeria
2012 Re-Coded: New World Narratives in 3-D, Queen’s Park Gallery, Barbados
2011 39Degrees, The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
2011 39Degrees, Lancaster University’s BA Fine Art Degree show, Lancaster, UK
Exhibitions (Head Curator):
2019 Social Geometry: Expanded Drawing Practices by Barbadian Artists, The Queen's Park Gallery,
Bridgetown, Barbados
Exhibitions (Co-curator):
2019 TVE - Transoceanic Visual Exchange, The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados;
I: project space, Beijing, China; Australia; Alice Yard, Trinidad & Tobago (upcoming)
2018 Caribbean Linked V Exhibition, Ateliers ’89 and Caya Grandi, Aruba
2017 TVE - Transoceanic Visual Exchange, The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados;
Footscray Community Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia; Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Resonance, The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados
2016 Caribbean Linked IV Exhibition, Ateliers ’89, Aruba
2015 TVE - Transoceanic Visual Exchange, The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados; RM, New Zealand;
Video Art Network Lagos, Nigeria
Conferences:
2017 Tilting Axis: Curating the Caribbean at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands; participant
2016 Tilting Axis: Caribbean Strategies at the Pérez Art Museum Miami; participant
2015 Tilting Axis: Within and Beyond the Caribbean – Shifting Models of Sustainability & Connectivity,
at Fresh Milk, Barbados; participant and co-organizer
Awards & Fellowships:
2014 Honourable mention for the Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing, Trinidad & Tobago
2014 Recipient of a Res Artis ResSupport Fellowship to Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2012 Recipient of a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, USA sponsored by the Reed Foundation
2008 Recipient of a Barbados Government Scholarship for tertiary education
2007 Recipient of the Irving Burgie Award for Excellence in the area of Literary and Creative Arts
2006 Recipient of the Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Literary Arts in the National Independence Festival
of Creative Arts (NIFCA)