Tim Kennedy was born in Buffalo, New York. He received a BFA in Painting from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1977 and an MFA in Painting from Brooklyn College in 1984. He attended the Skowhegan School during the summers of 1979 and 1980.
Kennedy has received individual artist grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Indiana Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Indianapolis and the Clark Hulings Fund. His work has been reviewed in The New York Sun, The New York Observer and the Indianapolis Star. Articles on his work have appeared in The Artist’s Magazine, American Artist Magazine, Watercolor Magazine and an interview with him was featured on Larry Groff’s blog Painting Perceptions. He exhibits his work at First Street Gallery in New York where he has had eight solo exhibitions. Kennedy is a Senior Lecturer of Painting at Indiana University in Bloomington where he has taught since 2000.
Tim Kennedy works with material from the observed world. He embraces all of the genres but has repeatedly returned to themes that include the figure in both domestic interior and landscape settings. He primarily works directly from his subject.
