Kennedy Yanko

Kennedy Yanko (b. 1988, St. Louis MO) is a sculptor and installation artist working in found metal and paint skin. Yanko deploys her materials in ways that explore the limitations of optic vision, underlining the opportunities we miss when looking with eyes alone. Her methods reflect a dual abstract expressionist-surrealist approach that centers the seen and unseen factors that affect, contribute to, and moderate human experience.

In 2021, Yanko was Artist-in-Residence at the Rubell Museum, Miami (FL). In addition to numerous solo exhibitions, the artist’s work has recently been included in Brooklyn Abstraction: Four Artists, Four Walls at the Brooklyn Museum (NY); and Set It Off, curated by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont, at the Parrish Museum, Water Mill (NY).

Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Albertina Museum, Vienna (AT); the Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach (FL); Rubell Museum, Miami (FL); Ståhl Collection, Norrköping (SE); and Stora Wäsby Sculpture Park, Stockholm (SE), among others.