Brian Kenny (born 1982) is an American multidisciplinary artist.

Biography

Kenny was born on American military base in Heidelberg, Germany in 1982 and traveled extensively with his military parents until his late teenage years. He graduated from

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. Kenny is a long-time collaborator of Russian-born artist

Slava Mogutin Slava Mogutin (full name Yaroslav Yurievich Mogutin, b. April 12, 1974, Kemerovo) is a New York-based Russian artist and author, who works across different media, including photography, video, text, installation, sculpture, and painting. Life ...

, with whom he has run the

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project since 2004. Kenny has exhibited in galleries, museums and alternative venues around the globe. He has created commissioned works for Yacine Aouadi,

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, Petrou\Man,

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and Please Do Not Enter. One of the major themes in Kenny's work is exploration of his own

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, checking the boundaries between genders. In 2014, Kenny collaborated with the Visual AIDS foundation to raise awareness of the disease.

Exhibitions

Kenny's first solo exhibition was held in 2008 in New York City. He had a solo exhibition at

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as part of SUPERM in 2013. In 2011 he exhibited at ''La Petite Mort Gallery'' in Ottawa with

. He participated in group exhibitions including

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (LLM), formerly the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, is a visual art museum in SoHo, Lower Manhattan, New York City. It mainly collects, preserves and exhibits visual arts created by LGBTQ artists or ar ...

Station Museum of Contemporary Art The Station Museum of Contemporary Art is a private museum owned and run by James and Ann Harithas devoted to contemporary art located in the Third Ward, Houston, Third Ward of Houston, Texas, Houston, Texas, United States. Started in 2001, the mu ...

in Texas, Haifa Museum of Art in Israel and

Schwules Museum The Schwules Museum (English: Gay Museum) in Berlin, Germany, is a museum and research centre with collections focusing on LGBTQ+ history and culture. It opened in 1985 and it was the first museum in the world dedicated to gay history. The muse ...

in Berlin.

Personal life

Kenny is openly gay. His partner is Slava Mogutin.

References

External links

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