Juror
GROUNDED? 16th Annual Juried Exhibition

Kristan Kennedy is an artist and curator who is currently the Visual Art Program Director for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). Kennedy curates video, installation, music and new media projects for PICA's annual Time-Based Art Festival. She has organized residencies, exhibitions and commissioned projects by Matthew Day Jackson, Sara Greenberger-Rafferty, Cristian Silva, RED 76, Sincerely John Head, Arnold Kemp, Guido van der Werve and Brad Adkins among others. Kennedy's own work is represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland, Or), and has been presented nationally. She is the co-founder of the hibernating artist collective Swallow Press (x2) along with artist Topher Sinkinson, their printed ephemera and large scale temporal public projects have been presented internationally. Kennedy lives and works in Portland, Oregon.