Kennedy YANKO

Born 1988, St. Louis
Live and work at New York

SOLO SHOW

  • 2021
    • “Postcapitalist Desire”, Tilton Gallery, New York
  • 2020
    • “Salient Queens”, VIELMETTER, Los Angeles, CA
    • “Because it’s in my blood”, Galleria Poggiali
    • “ANON”, Dallas Art Fair, Denny Dimin Gallery
  • 2019
    • “Before Words”, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI
    • “Hannah”, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago 
    • “Highly Worked”, Denny Dimin Gallery, NY
    • “Parallels and Peripheries”, Art Center South Florida
    • “Cry for Victory”, Project + Gallery
      Michael David Gallery
  • 2018
    • “Chasing Time”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
    • “Out Of Line”, Long Gallery Harlem, New York
  • 2016
    • “Indelible Fluidity”, Miami Art Week
  • 2013
    • “Alchemy in Silent Spaces”, Idiosyncrasy Gallery, New York
  • 2012
    • “Permutation”, The Paragon Theater, St. Louis
    • “Untitled”, White Rabit, New York
  • 2010
    • “Paroxysm”, Art Monster, St. Louis
  • 2009
    • “Wu-Wei”, Abstrakt Gallery, St. Louis
  • 2008
    • “Untitled”, The Nash Hotel, Miami Beach
    • “Untitled (Modules)”, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco

 

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ART FAIRS

  • 2020 
    • “Dallas Art Fair”, Denny Dimin Gallery, Dallas, Texas
    • “ARCO Madrid”, Galería Leyendecker, Madrid, Spain
    • “Armory”, Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York, NY
    • “Frieze” Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2019 
    • “Art Basel”, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Miami, FL
    • “Expo Chicago”, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
    • “Enter Art Fair”, Galleri Jacob Bjorn. Copenhagen, Denmark
    • “Armory”, Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York, NY
    • “Frieze LA”, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    • “UNTITLED FOG”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Fransico, CA
  • 2018 
    • “Art Basel”, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Miami, FL
    • “UNTITLED”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL
    • “ARCO Madrid”, Galería Leyendecker, Madrid, Spain
    • “ARCO Lisboa”, Galería Leyendecker, Lisbon, Portugal
    • “VOLTA”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NEW York, NY
  • 2017 
    • “PULSE”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL

GROUP SHOW

  • 2020
    • “We are more tan a momento”, MCLA BCRC / Gallery 51. North Adams, MA.
    • “PARALLELS AND PERIPHERIES”, Galleria Anna Marra
    • “Life During War Time.” University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Fl.
    • “SITE: Art and Architecture in the Digital Space” Library Street Collective. “State Savings Bank”, Detroit, MI
    • “Abstract!”, Tilton Gallery, New York
    • “Variantes Asimétricas”, Fundación Mapfre Guanarteme, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • 2019
    • “Before Words”, Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids
    • “Parallels and Peripheries”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
      Untitled Fog, Jenkis Johnson, San Francisco
    • Solo, Dennydimin Harlem Perspectives, Coates & Scarry Armory, Kavi Gupta, NY
  • 2018
    • “UNTITLED” Art Basel, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Miami
    • “Cry of Victory and Short Walks to Freedom”, Project + Gallery, St.
      Louis
    • “Parallels And Peripheries”, Art Center South Florida, Miami
    • “EXPO Chicago”, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
    • “EXPO Chicago”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Chicago
    • “Alchemy”, Bric Arts Medias, NY
    • “The Barn Show 2018”, Johannes Vogt’s Space, East Hampton
    • “Summertime”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
    • “Almost Green”, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, NY
    • “Senses and Perceptions”, Mana Contemporary, Jersey
    • “The Aesthetics of Matter”, Volta Pier 90, NY
      PULSE Miami, Miami Beach
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  • 2017
    • “Projects Miami Beach 2017”, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Miami
    • “Hidden in Plain Sight”, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York
  • 2016
    • “Full Circle”, Mason Gallery, New York
      FamArt, New York
  • 2015
    • “Superfine Art Fair”, Art Basel, Miami
    • “AART”, Joseph Gross Gallery, New York
  • 2014
    • “I Kan Do Dat”, Rush Art Galleries, New York
    • “Art Now”, Poppington Gallery, New York
    • A Curios Cast of Characters, New York
  • 2013
    • “The Future is Now”, New York
  • 2012
    • “SELECT Art Fair”, Art Basel, Miami

PUBLIC ART

  • 2020 – 2021
    • Sculpture: “3 Ways”. Funded by the Helis Foundation. Poydras
    • Corridor, New Orlean, LA
  • 2019 – 2020
    • Installation. Film: “Our Valance”. Art in Buildings by Time Equities, Detroit, MI.

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

  • 2020 

    • Finalist: Creative Time Open Call. Creative Time

  • 2019 
    • Recipient, Colene Brown Art Prize. BIRC Arts Media
  • 2018
    • Artist Residency, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife, Canary Island
    • Nominee, Painters & Sculptors Grant Program. Joan Mitchell Foundation
    • Nominee, Emerging Artist Grant. Rema Hort Mann Foundation
  • 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