DK [Dave Kennedy]

BIO

email: dave@davekennedyimages.com / IG: dk_studioimages

DK’s works have been published globally in such magazines as Art21 and Numéro Cinq and exhibited both locally and internationally at such venues as the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Photo Center Northwest, Bellevue Arts Museum, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago Industrial Arts & Design Center, Escuela de Belle Arte in Spain, Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society Museum, the Seattle Art Museum's Gallery and most recently at Studio la Città in Italy.

DK is a recipient of a Yaddo Residency and Fellowship, Artist Trust’s Grant for Artist Project, the 4Culture Individual Project Award, Joanne Bailey Wilson Endowed Scholarship, and the Vermont Studio Fellowship. DK has served on Seattle Art Museum's Blueprint Roundtable panel and has participated as a guest lecturer at the Henry on the topics of beauty and social inclusion as an intro to their "Out [O] Fashion" Show curated by Deb Willis. He has prepared multimedia presentations for the Society of Photographic Educators, Cornish College of the Arts, and the University of Washington on topics of marginalization and objectification, as well as, those related to the history and making of photographs and video.

Commissioned works include private interests as well as commercially based collaborations with designers, art directors and creative directors for such clients as Adobe, ATT, Boeing, Hasbro, IBM, Microsoft, the University of Washington, and the City of Seattle’s Office of arts and Culture.