1988

Born in St. Louis, MO

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Selected Exhibitions

2023

Forthcoming Spring 2023, The Warhol Museum. Pittsburgh, PA

2022

"By Means Other Than the Known Senses," Art Basel Unlimited with Vielmetter Los Angeles. Basel, Switzerland

"Moving Weight," CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden

2021

"Three Generations," Salon 94, New York, NY

"Postcapitalist Desire," Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

2020

"alient Queens," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

"Because it’s in my blood," Galleria Poggiali, Milan, IT

2019

"Before Words," UICA, Grand Rapids, MI

"HANNAH, "Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL

"HIGHLY WORKED," Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, NY

2018

"Chasing Time," Leyendecker Galería, Tenerife, Canary Islands

2013

"Alchemy in Silent Spaces," Idiosyncrasy Gallery, New York, NY

2012

"Permutations," The Paragon Theater, St. Louis, MO

2010

"Paroxysm," Art Monster, St. Louis, MO

2009

"Wu-Wei," Abstrakt Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Group Exhibitions

2022

"Brooklyn Abstraction: Four Artists, Four Walls," The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

"Set it Off," Curated by Racquel Chevremont & Mickalene Thomas—collectively known as Deux Femmes Noires, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY

"Skin in the Game," Curated by Zoe Lukov & Produced by Abby Pucker, Pop Up Exhibition, Chicago, IL

"2022 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts," American Academy of Art and Letters, New York City, NY

2021

The Armory Show, Two Person Presentation with Genevieve Gaignard, New York, NY

2020

"We Are More Than A Moment," MCLA BCRC/Gallery 51, North Adams, MA

"Life During War Time," University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Fl

"Arco Madrid," Leyendecker Galería, Madrid, Spain

"SITE: Art and Architecture in the Digital Space," Library Street Collective

Armory, Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York, NY

"ABSTRACT! From Minimalism to Now," Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

Frieze, Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York, NY

2019

"IMPLIED BODY," ASSEMBLY ROOM, New York, NY

Frieze LA, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Expo Chicago, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL

Armory, Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York, NY

Art Basel, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Miami, FL

Enter Art Fair, Galleri Jacob Bjørn, Copenhagen, Denmark

"Harlem Perspectives," The Faction Art Space, New York, NY

"UNTITLED FOG," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018

"UNTITLED," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL

2019

"PARALLELS AND PERIPHERIES," MOCAD, Detroit, MI

2018

Art Basel, Kavi Gupta Gallery. Miami, FL.

"Cry of Victory and Short Walks to Freedom," Projects + Gallery, St. Louis, MO

"Outside in 2," Michael David Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

"PARALLELS AND PERIPHERIES," Art Center South Florida, Miami, FL

The Barn Show 2018, Johannes Vogt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

"Arco Lisboa," Leyendecker Galería, Lisbon, Portugal

"Alchemy," BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY

"Arco Madrid," Leyendecker Galería, Madrid, Spain

"Senses and Perceptions," MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

"The Aesthetics of Matter," VOLTA NY, New York, NY

"Out of Line," Long Gallery, Harlem, NY

2017

"PULSE," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL

"PROJECTS," PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL

"Hidden in Plain Sight," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015

"AART," Joseph Gross Gallery, New York, NY

2014

"I Kan Do Dat," Rush Art Galleries, New York, NY

"Art Now," Poppington Gallery, New York, NY

Bibliography

2023

Godfrey, Mark, Katy Siegel, Aria Dean, Laura Owens, Glenn Adamson. “Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection,” Gregory R. Miller & Co, ARTBOOK D.A.P., New York, NY pg 388-389, 2023

2022

Escalante-De Mattei, Shanti. "Dealers Are Footing Towering Bills to Show Monumental Works in Art Basel’s Unlimited Section," ARTnews, June 15 (Link)

Batycka, Dorian. "In Pictures: See the Best of Art Basel Unlimited 2022, From a Painting Made of Hardware-Store Finds to a Shipping Container-Turned-Sculpture," artnet, June 13 (Link)

Schwartz, Alexis. "Kennedy Yanko is Moving Weight," L'Officiel, May 19 (Link)

2021

Rynaski, Nate. "Kennedy Yanko | To paint is to love, to love is to scrap metal," Flaunt, August 30 (Link)

King, Akili. "Inside the Studio Where Artist Kennedy Yanko Creates Her Surreal Sculptures," Vogue, July 11 (Link)

Staff, Artsy. "What I Buy and Why: Bronx Museum Trustee Richard Torres on Supporting Artists of Color, and the Picasso He’d Most Love to Pilfer," Artsy, June 28 (Link)

White, Katie. "‘My Whole Body Is Moving With It’: Rising Star Kennedy Yanko on the Performative Way She Makes Her Coveted Sculptures," Artnet, June 15 (Link)

Fazzare, Elizabeth. "CULTURED COLLECTIONS WITH SUZANNE MCFAYDEN," Cultured Magazine, June 11

Ologundudu, Folasade. "Kennedy Yanko: Postcapitalist Desire," The Brooklyn Rail, May 2021 (Link)

Hernandez, Jasmin. "We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World," Abrams, 2021

2020

Waddoups, Ryan. "Kennedy Yanko Isn’t Afraid to Take Up Space," Surface Magazine, October 20, 2020

Huzenis, Ella. “Kennedy Yanko’s Sculptures are a Certain Kind of Woman,” Interview, October 2020.

2019

Beers, Kurt. "100 Sculptors of Tomorrow," Thames & Hudson, 2019.

Becker, Noah. "Interview with Kennedy Yanko by Noah Becker,” White Hot Magazine, June 2019.

Dunson, Danny. "Kennedy Yanko: In Her Own Words," Art X, July 2019.

Rosier, J. Howard. “Critic’s Picks,” Art Forum, November 2019.

2018

Sargent, Antwaun. “How artist Kennedy Yanko went from bodybuilding to metalworking,” Vice, 8 March 2018.

Joseph, Jae. “All the Feels: Nana Ya Asare Boadu and Kennedy Yanko,” Cultured, July 2018.

2017

Hernandez, Jasmin. “Studio Visit with Kennedy Yanko in Bushwick, Brooklyn,” GalleryGurls, 22 October 2017.

McVey, Kurt. “Three Pulses: Ventiko, Fischer Cherry and Kennedy Yanko,” Visual Art, 22 November 2017.

2013

McVey, Kurt. “It’s A Little About Kennedy Yanko,” Interview Magazine, 8 November 2013.

Public Projects

2019-2021

Sculpture: 3 Ways, Funded by the Helis Foundation. Poydras Corridor, New Orlean, LA

2019-2020

Installation | Film: Our Valence. Art in Buildings by Time Equities. Detroit, MI

Residencies

2021

Artist in Residence. Rubell Museum. Miami, FL

2020

Finalist. Creative Time Open Call. Creative Time

2019

Recipient, Colene Brown Art Prize. BRIC Arts Media.

2018-2019

Nominee, Painters & Sculptors Grant Program, Joan Mitchell Foundation.

2018

Nominee, Emerging Artist Grant. Rema Hort Mann Foundation.

Artist Residency, Galería Leyendecker. Tenerife, Canary Islands.

2017

Artist Residency, Fountainhead, Miami, FL.

2013

Artist Residency, Idiosyncrasy Gallery. New York, NY.

2010

Artist Residency, Atlantic Center of the Arts. New Smyrna Beach, FL.

2009-2012

Resident Performer, The Living Theatre. New York, NY.

Public Talks, Panels and Juries

2022

Kennedy Yanko in conversation with Saskia Neuman, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden

2019

Artist Talk. Philadelphia Academy of the Arts. Philadelphia, PA.

“Conversations with Artists” series. The Phillips Collection. Washington, DC.

Public Collections

The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL.

Espacio Tacuari, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL

Rubell Museum, Miami, FL.