CURRICULUM VITAE

JEFFREY KENT

BORN Boston, MA. USA

LIVE/WORKS Baltimore, MD. USA

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

EXHIBITIONS

2025

LAYERS: THE ART OF CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.

RECOVERING SECRETS: Storytelling Through the Art of Jeffrey Kent, The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO. (solo)

2024

MEMOIR EXHIBITION, The 120 Studios, Baltimore, MD.

REVISIT/REIMAGINE: The Civil Rights Era in Maryland and Parallels of Today, Banneker-Douglas-Tubman Museum, Annapolis, MD. 

2023

PRIZM Year 11, Civilization is not Civil, Miami Art Week 2023, Miami FL.

2022

PRIZM Year 10 Vernacular a la Mode, Prizm Art Fair (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)

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,

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)

COLLECTIONS

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington, D.C.)

Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami, FL)

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA)

National Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.)

American Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore, MD)

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland of African American History and Culture (Baltimore, MD)

Robert W. Deutsch Foundation (Baltimore, MD)

The Last Resort Artist Retreat (Baltimore, MD)

Front Rowe Inc. (Fairfax, VA)

Prologue Inc. (Baltimore, MD)

Washington Dental Studio (Washington, D.C.)

Baltimore Art Reality Corporations (Baltimore, MD)

Hilton Hotels and Resorts (Washington, D.C.) 

FTI Consulting Inc. (Washington, D.C.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024

Roberts, Sarah, editor. Amy Sherald: American Sublime. Contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Dario Calmese, Rhea L. Combs, and Deborah Willis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2024.

“Color Outside the Lines: Living Flowers”, Naomi Winston, Baltimore, MD

“Revisit Reimagine: The Civil Rights Era in Maryland and Parallels of Today” Banneker-Douglas-Tubman Museum, Annapolis, MD

“City of Artists Baltimore,”BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD, 

2022

“Jeffrey Kent’s Quiet Influence Has Shaped the Baltimore Art Scene for Decades” Baltimore Magazine, Lauren LaRocca,  Baltimore, MD

2021

“Black Collagists: The Book”, Teri Henderson, Baltimore, MD

“Convergence II: The Art Collection of the National Academy of Sciences,” Washington, DC, The National Academies Press, National Academy of Sciences

2020-2021

Exhibition Catalog, Curatorial, “Kim Rice Exhibition Inheritance 2020-2021 Catalogue”, The Peale, Baltimore, MD

2020

“Straight Talk:Jeffrey Kent Paints the Story of Henrietta Lacks,” Sofia Fortunato, SciArt Initiative, New York, NY

"In the galleries: A pictorial stew examines the seamy side along the corridors of power", Mark Jenkins, Washington Post

"Technology Painting and Photography at the Intersection of Art and Science at the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences", Michal Gavish, SciArt Magazine, Boston, MA

2017

Cover of Issues in Science and Technology, Aston, PA

Times Leader "No loud booms! bams! or pows!' rule thrown out at Scranton's Everhart Museum," Gene Axton, Wilkes-Barre PA

Exhibition Catalog, “Baltimore Rising," Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2015

"We Saw This, So Should You: For Whom It Stands At The Reginald F. Lewis Museum," Cara Ober, Baltimore , MD 

“Alumni Launch Entities and Initiatives to Integrate Art into Communities”, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2014

“The End of an Era:SubBasement Artists Studios to Close”, Cara Ober, BmoreArt, Baltimore, MD

“After more than a decade, Jeffrey Kent closes SubBasement Studios,” Rebekah Kirkman, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD

“Review: Jeffrey Kent and Warren Lyons at the Kohl by Mary McCoy,” Mary McCoy, The Chestertown Spy, Eastern Shore, MD

2013

“Unexpected Art gallery pops up in the Fitzgerald,” Sarah Meehan, Baltimore Business Journal, Baltimore,  MD

Exhibition Catalog, “Preach! New Works by Jeffrey Kent," Exhibition Development Seminar, MICA, Baltimore, MD

Exhibition Catalog, “Alchemical Vessels," Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington D.C.

2010

Doug, Siri Lise/Arnold, Wayne, “Baltimore Counts!," Holland Brown, Louisville, KY

City Paper, “POWER BROKER- HEROIC PROPORTIONS," Bret McCabe, Cover Story, Baltimore, MD

2006

Urbanite Magazine, “SPACE Underground Art," Cara Ober, Baltimore, MD

2004

PBS / MPT, “ARTWORKS THIS WEEK," Baltimore, MD

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

2014

Nomination for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant

2008

Joyce Scott Scholarship for MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2005

Baltimore’s Best Visual Artist, City Paper, Baltimore, MD