Deborah Kennedy
1457 Hester Avenue
San Jose, CA 95126
Phone: (408) 297-8074
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: deborahkennedyart.com
PUBLICATIONS
Kennedy, Deborah. Nature Speaks: Art & Poetry for the Earth. Ashland: White Cloud Press.
2016. Print.
Kennedy, Deborah. Teeming, Vacation Apocalypse. Macfarlane, Pushpa, editor.
Third Thursday. vol. 3, San Jose, CA, Willow Glen Poetry Project, Pages 44-45, 48.
2015. Print.
Kennedy, Deborah. Fate of My Son, Sign Language Bay Area Poets Coalition, Maggi H. Meyer
Memorial Contest 34 Winners. 2014. Web.
Kennedy, Deborah. Quorum Sensing. Richardson, Dennis, editor. No Ordinary Language.
vol. 2, San Jose, CA, Willow Glen Poetry Project, Pages160-161. 2013. Print.
SELECTED READINGS AND PERFORMANCES
4/2017
Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth, Events, Copperfield’s Books,
Novato, California
1/2017
Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth, Marin County Events, Book
Passages, Corte Madera, California
12/2016
Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth, Noon Readings, Books, Inc., Santa
Clara, California
11/2016
Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth, NoonArts and Lecture Series,
Theater on San Pedro Square, San Jose, California
11/2016
Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth, Featured Reader and Lecture, Willow
Glen Poetry Project, Willow Glen Library, San Jose, California
8/2016
Poetry Potpourri, NoonArts and Lecture Series, St. James Park, San Jose,
California
2/2014
Maggi H. Meyer Memorial Contest 34, Poetry Reading, Bay Area Poets
Coalition, Berkeley, California
9/2013
Coevolution, Featured Reader, Willow Glen Poetry Project, Willow Glen,
California
10/2013
The Web of Life, Poetry Reading, Art in Nature: The Nature of Art, Redwood
Regional Park, Oakland, California
9/2011
Bona Dea: The Last Horned Goddess, Poetry Reading, Art in Nature: The Nature
of Art, Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, California
10/2002
Bona Dea, Turning the Tables, The Dance Palace, Point Reyes Station, CA
6/1990
Geheimnis/Secrets, Wall Street Gallery, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
12/ 2013
Toolwise/Earthwise, Creativity, Change, Commitment: A Celebration of 100
Years of the Department of Art, San Jose City College, San Jose, California
9/2013
River of Plastic, China Brotsky Art Gallery, Thoreau Center for Sustainability,
San Francisco, California
10/2011
The Hour of Decision, The Fine Art of Recycling Sculpture Exhibition, Santa Clara
City Hall, Santa Clara, California
9/2006
The March of Eco Folly, Earthly Concerns, The Thacher Gallery at USF, San
Francisco, California
6/2005
The Cost of Business, Eco Visions, Gallery at Thoreau, San Francisco, California
9/2002
Full Tox Living, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California
9/2001
The Dance of the Bees, JFK University Arts Gallery, Berkeley, California
9/1999
Nature Speaks: Project Nexus, EarthWise, The Death of Birth, de Saisset Museum,
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California
10/1998
Killing Comfort, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
6/1990
Secrets/Geheimnis, Walter Bischoff Gallery, Stuttgart, West Germany
5/1990
Brought to the Light, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
6/1989
Liberty Tor, Site-specific installation, Berlin Wall, East Germany
4/1989
Schrift an der Mauer, Site-specific installation, Berlin Wall, East Germany
Supported by Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie
1/1987
Writing on the Wall, Works, San Jose, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1/2017
Plastic Madness/ ¡Locura del Plastico!, Peralta Gallery, Mazatlán, Mexico, Bluseed Studios, Saranac Lake, NY
3/2015
Connections: Women Environmental Artists, Arts Contemporary Marin, Red
Barn Gallery, Point Reyes National Seashore, California
10/2010
Vanishing Pollinators, WEAD, Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, California
1/2010
2009 Statewide Drawing and Print Competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum
of Art, Santa Clara, California
10/2008
Visual Politics: Art and the American Experience, Juror: Peter Selz, Santa Cruz
Art League, Santa Cruz, California
9/2007
Global Warming, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana,
California
5/2001
Earthworks, The Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, Illinois
6/1988
The Artist's Vision: A World Without War, San Jose Art League, New
Zealand Gallery, New Zealand, Art Forum, Singapore, traveling exhibit
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2/2014
Maggi H. Meyer Memorial Contest 34, First Prize, Midi Category, Bay Area Poets
Coalition, Berkeley, California
2/2014
Maggi H. Meyer Memorial Contest 34, Third Prize, Mini Category, Bay Area
Poets Coalition, Berkeley, California
1/2009
Indoor Sculpture Exhibition, Santa Clara City Hall, Santa Clara, California. Award
of Merit: Nature Guides for the 21st Century
3/2002
Artist-in-Residence, WORKS, San Jose, CA
11/1997
Artist’s Fellowship for Installation Arts, Arts Council of Santa Clara County, San
Jose, California
7/1992
20th Annual 2-D Competition Exhibition, First Prize, San Jose Art League,
San Jose, California
9/198912/1992
Artist-in-Residence, California Arts Council Grant, Broadway Continuation
High School, Willow Glen, California
6/1990
Artist-in-Residence, Walter Bischoff Gallery, Stuttgart, West Germany
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND MEDIA REFERENCES
Kennedy, Deborah. (9/2016) Deborah Kennedy, Artist, Author and Lecturer, Interview by Heather
Durham, Silicon Valley Technology, Arts, Green and Sustainability, Silicon Valley Channel
#30, #148, http://reflect.creatv.cablecast.tv/vod/27655-SVTAGS-160926-160921-1-27-35High-v1.mp4
Baumann, Greg, Book of Lists, American City Business Journal, San Jose, California, 2015,
page 73.
Stock, Lynn Peithman, (2015) Party to celebrate Silicon Valley's artistic side — and check out
these creations, Silicon Valley Business Journal, page 3. Retrieved from
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/01/15/publishers-note-silicon-valleysartistic-side-get.html
Hernandez, Jo Farb, Creativity, Change, Commitment: A Celebration of 100 Years of the
Department of Art, Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose,
California, 2013, pages 220 and 221.
Ralf Grunder, Verboten: Berliner Mauerkunst, Bohlau Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2007, 14 pages.
Barbara Morris, Ecovision at the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Artweek, San Jose,
California, September 2005, page 19-20.
Barbara Morris, Turning the Tables at Gallery Route One, Artweek, San Jose, California, 12/03,
page 17.
Deborah Koppman, Deborah Kennedy at the de Saisset Museum, Artweek, San Jose, California,
11/99, page 13.
Patricia B. Sanders, A conversation with Deborah Kennedy, Artweek, San Jose, California, 11/99,
pages 13 and 14.
Peter Jon Schuler, Producer and reporter, California Report, KQED, San Francisco, Sacramento,
Santa Rose, California, 10/99.
Chiori Santiago, Smashing monotypes, bashing stereotypes, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose,
California, 6/18/95, pages 4 and 5, Arts and Books.
Susanne Altmann, Reisende zwichen den Talern (Traveling between Valleys), Dresdener, Dresden,
Germany, 4/1/95, page 24.
Ysabel Duron, KRON, News Center 4 at 5, News Center Weekend Edition, San Jose, California,
8/3/91 and 8/8/91.
Maya Suryaraman, Tagger’s paint rosy future: Artist helps teens color their graffiti with dreams,
San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, California, 7/29/91, pages 1 and 12a.
Andrea Kachelreiss, Stuttgarter Impressionen (Stuttgart Impressions), Stuttgarter
Nachrichten, Stuttgart, Germany.
Herman Waldenburg, The Berlin Wall, Abbeville Press, New York, 1990, page 104-105.
Staff reporter, Freedom Views: 1991 Expresses Values, Cupertino Courier, Cupertino, California,
3/6/1991, page 6.
Dorothy Burkhart, Looking at freedom in the land of the free, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose,
California, 3/15/91, page 15C.
Best Bets, Focusing on Symbols of Hate and Alienation, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose,
California, 11/30/90, page 3C.
R. V., Gestandinisse, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart, West Germany, 7/28/90.
Jill Cave, Schrift an der Mauer, The Funnel, Fulbright Press, West Germany,4/1990,
pages 23-25.
Dorothy Burkhart, The Writing on the Wall, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, California,
12/10/1989, pages 18-19, 28-29, Arts and Books.
Associated Press, Artwork at Berlin Wall, Stars and Stripes, West Germany, 4/18/89, page 3.
Reuters, Frau Kennedy an der Mauer, AZ Politik, West Berlin, West Germany, 4/17/89, page 2.
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCES
1/2006present
Two-Dimensional Design, Art History: Renaissance to the Present, Department
of Art, San Jose City College, San Jose, California
3/20092011
Art for Teachers, Art and Art History Department, Santa Clara University, Santa
Clara, California
EDUCATION
12/1987
Master of Fine Arts, Plastic Arts, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
6/1983
B.A. Practice of Art, With Honors, Member, Phi Beta Kappa, University of
California, Berkeley, California