Jeffrey Kent is an American multidisciplinary artist and curator whose life's work has been a conduit for self-healing and communal wellness.

Through art making, mentorship, and the stewardship of creative resources and ideas, he has become a lodestar for people looking to navigate the art world and a liaison between working artists and collectors. His own artwork is conceptual, with the most defining elements borrowing from his reflections on America’s racialized history and his place in it. Kent symbolically aligns his mediums with the subjects he is visually interrogating so that the materials, colors, and textures mirror the temperament of the discourse. The throughline of his varied artistic forms is his ability to demonstrate the inextricable links between historical meta-narratives and his story, offering a portal for others to find their own epics in the annals of history.

In addition to his art practice, Kent founded several public art hubs. These hubs offer space for artists to produce large-scale art projects and receive mentoring and apprenticeships through budding collaborations with accomplished and rising artists. At Sub-Basement Artist Studios, Kent created the largest (13,000 square feet) art gallery in Baltimore (2004-2014). It served as the launch pad for artists like Amy Sherald, who became world-renowned for her 2018 portraiture of Michelle Obama. With his latest communal venture, BLIFTD STVDIOS PROJECT, Kent is building on that experience and his decades of work to create a new focal point for artistic work and connection in Baltimore’s southeast neighborhood, Canton.

Kent was the co-owner/founder of art and decor retail space Unexpected Art Space (2013-2016) and co-founder of Connect+Collect (2018 - present), an initiative designed to create awareness and momentum among new and experienced collectors, provide professional development to Baltimore-based artists, and promote a culture of collecting in Baltimore. He is also the founder and brainchild of Accomplished Art Apprentices. This initiative partners with esteemed museums to create hands-on learning opportunities for young people from marginalized communities in art handling, installation, and historic preservation.

Kent taught fine art at Maryland Institute College of Art (2021-2023). His artwork resides in the collections of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C, Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, FTI Consulting Inc. in Washington D.C, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Hilton Hotels and Resorts in Baltimore, and Robert W. Deutsch Foundation in Baltimore, among others.