Katherine Kennedy
ARTIST, WRITER & CULTURAL PRACTITIONER

Katherine Kennedy is a Barbadian artist and writer. She graduated with a BA in Creative Arts (First Class Hons.) from Lancaster University, UK, and has exhibited locally, regionally and internationally in Barbados, London, Glasgow, the USA, Aruba, Jamaica, Nigeria, New Zealand and South Korea to date. 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. Through these platforms, she has coordinated and managed programmes such as five editions of the Caribbean Linked residency & exhibition programme at Ateliers ’89, Aruba, and the biennial Transoceanic Visual Exchange (TVE) international video, film and new media exhibition.

 

Katherine's 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. She has undertaken projects and residencies at the Insituto Buena Bista (IBB), Curaçao (2012); The Vermont Studio Center, USA (2013); Casa Tomada, Brazil (2013); Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany (2014); and Punch Creative Arena, Barbados (2019 & 2020). Her written work has been published with platforms such as Sugarcane Magazine (Volume 1, Issue No. 3) and Robert & Christopher Publishers in the A-Z of Caribbean Art (2019). 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, Barbados in May 2019, and was selected as a fellow in the CCCADI Afro-Caribbean Art Curatorial Fellowship in 2021.

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

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Employment:

2021                  Part-time Tutor, Division of Fine Arts, Barbados Community College, Barbados

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​

           

Exhibitions (Artist):

2021                The Clement Payne Golden Square Freedom Park Bench Project, Bridgetown, Barbados

2021                De-Colonisation, Presented by Artists Alliance Barbados, The Embassy of Argentina, Barbados

2021                The Longest Night, The Montpelier Arts Center, Maryland, USA

2021                #social2021, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea

2021                Innerscapes, The Frame & Art Co., Barbados 

2021                Transformation: Objects and Images in Relation, The Clemente Gallery, New York City, USA

2021                Atlantic World Art Fair, Booth curated by Sour Grass Curatorial Agency, Artsy

2020                InSitu, Facilitated by Punch Creative Arena, Flower Forest Botanical Gardens, Barbados

2020                PAST PRESENT FUTURE, The Brighton Storeroom, Barbados

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         

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Exhibitions (Head Curator):

2021                QUINTessence: (5)5 Stages of Change through Barbados' National Collections, Online exhibition,

                         Commissioned by the National Cultural Foundation, Barbados

2019                Social Geometry: Expanded Drawing Practices by Barbadian Artists, The Queen's Park Gallery, 

                         Bridgetown, Barbados 

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Exhibitions (Co-curator):

2021                TVE - Transoceanic Visual Exchange 4, The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados;

                         TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica

2019                TVE - Transoceanic Visual Exchange 3, The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados;

                         CACHE space, Beijing, China; Alice Yard, Trinidad & Tobago

2018                Caribbean Linked V Exhibition, Ateliers ’89 and Caya Grandi, Aruba

2017                TVE - Transoceanic Visual Exchange 2, 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

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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

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Artist Residencies (Coordinator):

2022                Caribbean Linked V!, Ateliers '89, Aruba (upcoming)

2012-2020      Coordination of artist residencies and community outreach programming for local, regional

                         and international artists at The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., Barbados

2018                Caribbean Linked V, Ateliers ’89, Aruba

2016                Caribbean Linked IV, Ateliers ’89, Aruba

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Conferences:​

2021                The Creative Economy and Digitization Forum | UNCTAD15  hosted by Barbados; assistant coordinator

                         for the Holistec Global SIDS Competition

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

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Awards & Fellowships:​

2021                Participant in the CCCADI Afro-Caribbean Art Curatorial Fellowship

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)