Artist Talk: Kristan Kennedy

Kristan Kennedy is an artist, curator and educator based in Portland, Oregon.

As of Visual Art Curator at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), she focuses on commissioning new work by international emerging artists in the form of large-scale, site-specific installations and solo projects that exist at the borders of genres, including organizing music, performance art, publications, and new media projects as part of PICA’s year-round programming and for the organization’s annual Time-Based Art Festival. Kennedy oversees the Precipice Fund, a grant for artist-run organizations and collaborative projects in Portland, Oregon, as part of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program.

Kennedy's has recently exhibited at Soloway, Brooklyn, NY, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, and Zzzzzzz, New York. She currently teaches Contemporary Art History at Portland State University, where she also organizes their MFA Visiting Artist Program and Lecture Series.