Kennedy Yanko | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1988: Born in St. Louis, MO
: Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Selected Solo 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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: “61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: In Minor Keys," Curated by Koyo Kouoh, Arsenale di Venezia Campo de la Tana, Venice, Italy (forthcoming)
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, Scholarships, & Prizes

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.