One-Man Shows
Kings Gallery of the San Francisco Unitarian Universalist Church 2004
Oakland City Hall, Oakland, CA 2000
Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA 1992-2000
Windows Project 2020 Addison Street
Good Samaritan Baptist Church, Oakland, CA 1996
La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA 1995
West Berkeley Senior Citizens Center, Berkeley, CA 1992
Richmond City Hall, Richmond, CA 1988
Group Shows
Revolving Museum, Lowell "Race Class Gender" 2007
American Visionary Art Museum "Race, Class, Gender" 2006
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 2000
"Annual Holiday Arts Festival & Art Auction"
SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000
Visual Aid's "Big Deal"
San Francisco Arts Commission "Extraordinary Artists" 2000 curated by Bonnie Grossman, The Ames Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Green Bean, Oakland, CA 1999
The East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, Oakland, CA 1999
Sheppard Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 1996
"Memories and Visions: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies"
African American Museum, Dallas, TX 1994
Skyline College, San Bruno, CA 1994
"Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California"
California State University, Hayward, CA 1992
"Vernacular Art"
Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA 1991
"The Gospel Connection" with Louis Estape
Oakland Museum of Art
Murals
West Berkeley Senior Citizens Center, Berkeley, California 1997
Good Samaritan Baptist Church, Oakland, California 1996
Whitney Community Center, San Francisco 1972
Commissioned through the San Francisco Arts Commission
Collections
The National Museum of American Art acquired 1997
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
House of Blues
Chuck and Jan Rosenak, authors of Contemporary American Folk Art, Abbeville, 1996
Jean and Richard Kellaway
Justin Massingale
Monday, December 1, 2008
Leon Kennedy (b. 1945, Houston, Texas) Renowned African American spiritual visionary artist featured prominently in several pages of Rosenak's cornerstone Self-Taught art collector book, "Contemporary American Folk Art" (Abbeville, 1996).
In 1997 the Smithsonian Institution purchased the 220 most significant pieces from the Rosenak collection, including a 1995 Leon Kennedy bedsheet painted with numerous figures. The Folk Art Messenger (1997 Vol.10 No.3) reported this acquisition makes the The National Museum of American Art the world's preeminent repository for American self-taught art.
"It is our desire to see them as part of the history of 20th-century American art," said Chuck Rosenak. Mentioning Kennedy, the article goes on to note these works were the first American collection exhibited at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Switzerland, which "testifies to its quality and uniqueness."
This Leon Kennedy masterwork now resides at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, while photos of Kennedy and other materials are stored at the National Archives in Wasington, D.C. Kennedy is listed in Betty-Carol Sellen's important survey, "Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art."
In 2006 two of Kennedy's paintings formed a major part of the yearlong exhibit at Baltimore's prestigious American Visionary Art Museum, "Race, Class, Gender," which travelled in 2007 to the Lowell Revolving Museum. A major one-man retrospective was exhibited at the Kings Gallery of the San Francisco Unitarian Universalist Church in 2004. And in late the 1990's The House of Blues purchased several of Leon's works.
Mr. Kennedy resides in Oakland, CA.
In 1997 the Smithsonian Institution purchased the 220 most significant pieces from the Rosenak collection, including a 1995 Leon Kennedy bedsheet painted with numerous figures. The Folk Art Messenger (1997 Vol.10 No.3) reported this acquisition makes the The National Museum of American Art the world's preeminent repository for American self-taught art.
"It is our desire to see them as part of the history of 20th-century American art," said Chuck Rosenak. Mentioning Kennedy, the article goes on to note these works were the first American collection exhibited at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Switzerland, which "testifies to its quality and uniqueness."
This Leon Kennedy masterwork now resides at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, while photos of Kennedy and other materials are stored at the National Archives in Wasington, D.C. Kennedy is listed in Betty-Carol Sellen's important survey, "Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art."
In 2006 two of Kennedy's paintings formed a major part of the yearlong exhibit at Baltimore's prestigious American Visionary Art Museum, "Race, Class, Gender," which travelled in 2007 to the Lowell Revolving Museum. A major one-man retrospective was exhibited at the Kings Gallery of the San Francisco Unitarian Universalist Church in 2004. And in late the 1990's The House of Blues purchased several of Leon's works.
Mr. Kennedy resides in Oakland, CA.
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