Tim Kennedy, born in Buffalo, New York, grew up in Western Michigan and Pittsburgh. He earned a BFA in Painting from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1977 and an MFA in Painting from Brooklyn College in 1984, attending the Skowhegan School in 1979 and 1980. Kennedy has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Indiana Arts Commission, 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, with features in The Artist’s Magazine and American Artist Magazine. He has had seven solo exhibitions at First Street Gallery, New York. Since 2000, Kennedy has taught as a Senior Lecturer of Painting at Indiana University. He has also taught at Grand Valley State University and co-taught a workshop at the Jerusalem Studio School in Italy.

Kennedy works from observation, with recurring themes of figures in domestic interiors and landscapes.

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