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b. Boston, MA. USA

LIVE/WORKS Baltimore, MD. USA

EDUCATION 2010 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Masters of Fine Arts (MFA)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022

PRIZM Year 10 Vernacular a la Mode, Miami Art Week 2022, Miami, FL

Unveiling Resistance, The Galleries at CCBC, Baltimore, MD

2021

Being Black in Public, The 540 West 28th Street Gallery, Chelsea, New York (Solo)

PRIZM Year 09 Points of Contact, Miami Art Week 2022, Miami, FL

2020

Surface from Under the Microscope: The Henrietta Lacks Series, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C. (Solo)

2019

Rainbow of Chaos, St. Charles Projects, Baltimore, MD

Surface from Under the Microscope: The Henrietta Lacks Series, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C. (Solo)

An Abstract Baltimore Story, Light City 2019, Baltimore, MD

2017

HeLa, The Motor House, Baltimore, MD (solo)

Second Chance Project, Second Chance Inc., Baltimore, MD

Art of Engagement, Touchstone Gallery, Washington D.C.

Two Lane Stories, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD

Here I Come to Save the Day! The Science, Culture & Art of Superheroes, The Everhart Museum, in the Maslow Galleries, Scranton, PA

Surface from Under the Microscope: The Henrietta Lacks Series by Jeffrey Kent, Howard University Interdisciplinary Research Building, Washington D.C. (solo)

2016

Art in Embassies Program, United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy

Between the Covers: Altered Books in Contemporary Art, The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art, Scranton, PA

Baltimore Rising, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2015

Art in Embassies Program, United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy

Opposition and Oppression: Race, Politics, and Art, Chesapeake Gallery Harford Community College, Bel Air, MD

Touch of Fire: Jeffrey and Michelle, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD

2014

Art in Embassies Program, United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy

Raw Nerves: The Works of Jeffrey Kent and Warren Lyons, Kohl Gallery Gibson Center for the Arts, Washington College, Chestertown, MD

For Whom It Stands: The Flag and the American People, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore, MD

For Whom It Stands Too, Star-Spangled Banner Flag House & Museum, Baltimore, MD

Traditions and Interpretations: Jeffrey Kent and Stephen Townes, Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD

The Empathy Project, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2013

Art in Embassies Program, United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy

Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington D.C.

Preach! New Works by Jeffrey Kent, Exhibition Development Seminar Artist in Residence MICA, Baltimore, MD

Herbert Bearman Art Gallery Frederick Douglass- Isaac Myers Maritime Museum, Baltimore, MD (solo)

2012

From Here to Infinity, American Center for Physics, College Park, MD

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe: The Contemporary Response, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD

2011

Ten Years after 9/11, Pepco Edison Place Gallery, Washington D.C.

Compression|Expansion, Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Abstraction: The Syncopation of Light Color and Form, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD

2010

Baltimore Counts, BSO Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD

Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC

Young Blood, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

2009

Works of Jeffrey Kent, Tuttle Gallery McDonogh School, Owings Mills, MD (solo)

2,191 Days and Counting, Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY

Stars and Stripes: Pride or Despair Reinterpreted, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington D.C.

Hand to Frame/Surface to Lens, Maryland State Arts Council James Backas Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2008

Good Bad And Ugly, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD (solo)

2006

…Validation?, The Rice Gallery Peterson Hall McDaniel College, Westminster, MD (solo)

2005

Stars and Stripes: Pride or Despair Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD

Turning the Corner, James E. Lewis Museum of Art Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

2004

Jeffrey Kent Continuous Spectrum: Colored-art Series, Towson University, Towson, MD (solo)

b. Boston, MA. USA

LIVE/WORKS Baltimore, MD. USA

EDUCATION 2010 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Masters of Fine Arts (MFA)

AWARDS

2008

Joyce Scott Scholarship for MFA MICA, Baltimore MD

2005

Baltimore Best Visual Artist, City Paper, Baltimore MD