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Represented Artist

Richard Kennedy

Born in 1985 (California, United States of America). Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Born in 1985 (California, United States of America). Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Bio

Photo credits: Matt Holmes

Richard Kennedy’s multidisciplinary practice is interested in relationships and navigating sexuality as it occurs at the intersection of class, race and gender.

Their professional background is in music and opera, through which they initially began communicating and elaborating these ideas. Considering opera through a language of African American experience – drawing on the oral histories told through spirituals and chain gang songs, Kennedy disrupts the tradition of Western Theatre, where the primary mode of engagement is through observation, in order to generate new participatory modes of viewership.
Throughout the process of creating costumes and set design for opera, Kennedy was drawn to painting, sculpture and video – drawing on a process of layering, obfuscation, and temporality (slowness) that contradicts their practice in live performance. Kennedy has presented solo exhibitions at Peres Projects, Berlin, solo performance works at ICA Richmond, Virginia, The Studio Museum Harlem, MoMA, The Shed, The Kitchen, BOFFO Performance Festival in New York and Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Upcoming presentations include a solo show at Peres Projects, Berlin, a performance at the Zabludowicz Collection in London and a group exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Artworks

Exhibitions

Richard Kennedy

Limp-Wristed
4 December, 2020 – 27 February, 2021
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