Kenseth Armstead
| EDUCATION | |
| 2005 | MS, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Integrated Digital Media Institute |
| 1991 | Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York |
| 1990 | BFA, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington DC |
| 1989 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2013 | INFERNO, Churner and Churner, New York |
| 2011 | Spook™: INVOCATION, LMAK projects, New York |
| 2009 | Spook™: The Negro Revolution 1776 – 1781: A Screening, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York |
| 2006 | MEMORIA: invisible_cities: i_prague_2 (from trebesice), FUTURA centre for contemporary art, Prague, Czech Republic |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2012 | Bronx Museum of the Arts, 40th Anniversary Gala & Art Auction, Three Sixty, New York |
| 2011 | Children’s Museum of the Arts, Art Auction 2011, CMA, New York |
| ISSUE Project Room Benefit Art Auction 2011, Industria Superstudio, New York | |
| WHITNEY Art Party Silent Auction, a benefit for the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York | |
| Personal Effects, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ | |
| Photo Finish, Islip Museum, East Islip, NY | |
| Apocrypha, Ironworks Gallery, Orange, NJ | |
| 2010 | Lafayette: Lost Hero, documentary feature film, directed by Oren Jacoby, PBS Broadcast (includes licensed Spook™ footage on James Armistead Lafayette & story ideas) |
| WHITNEY Art Party Silent Auction, a benefit for the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York | |
| BAMart Sixth Annual Silent Auction, BAM & Bergdorf Goodman, Brooklyn and New York | |
| A Communist Gala, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York | |
| 2009 | Spook™ Experiment, Light Box Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Art Gallery, Siggraph Asia 2009, Yokohama, Japan | |
| Vector Issue 2, Max Protetch Gallery, New York | |
| WHITNEY Art Party Silent Auction, a benefit for the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York | |
| Open Studios for Artists in Residence, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York | |
| 2008 | Evolving Stories, Survival, Resistance & Gentrification: Digital Matrix Commission, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx |
| WHITNEY Art Party Silent Auction, a benefit for the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York | |
| Unnamable Name, Tompkins County Library, Ithaca, NY | |
| 2007 | Late Empire, Roebling Hall, New York |
| WHITNEY Art Party Silent Auction, a benefit for the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York | |
| The Downtown Dinner Silent Auction, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York | |
| LMCC Workspace Open Studios, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York | |
| 2006 | Open Studios Trebesice Castle, Trebesice, Czech Republic |
| CinemaScope: Perpetual Art Machine, Scope Art Fair, New York, curated by Lee Wells | |
| Made in Woodstock III, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York | |
| 2005 | MULTIPLEX, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN |
| BROOKLinVIDEO, FUTURA centre for contemporary art, Prague, Czech Republic | |
| Arco International Art Fair, Gigantic Artspace, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2004 | 20th Gala Ball Auction, African American Museum, Dallas, TX |
| F|r|a|m|e analysis of movement, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY | |
| Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn | |
| Tactical Auction, Gigantic Artspace, New York | |
| Hope: War Child Auction, Christie’s, London | |
| 2003 | AIM 23, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx |
| Veni Vidi Video, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York | |
| 2001 | 300 Years of African American Art, African Americn Museum, Dallas, TX, curated by Phillip Collins |
| 2000 | Biennial: 19th Carrol Harris Simms National Black Art Competition and Exhibition, African American Museum, Dallas |
| AWARDS & RESIDENCIES | |
| 2012 | Artist in Residence, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space, Governor’s Island, New York |
| 2010 | Artist in Residence, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ |
| 2009 | Artist in Residence, Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology |
| 2008 | Film/Media Grant, Creative Capital Foundation |
| Digital Matrix Commission, Longwood Arts Project / Bronx Council on the Arts | |
| 2007 | Individual Artist Grant, Film & Media / New Technical Production, NYSCA |
| 2006 | Artist in Residence, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace |
| Artist in Residence, Harvestworks | |
| Artist in Residence, Trebesice Castle, Trebesice, Czech Republic | |
| 2005 | Excellence in Integrated Digital Media Award (Full-tuition Scholarship), NYU / Polytechnic University |
| 2003 | Woodstock Artist in Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock |
| Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts | |
| 2002 | Viewing Program, The Drawing Center |
| 2000 | Sculpture Purchase Prize Award, African American Museum |
| 1999 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 1997 | Funded Artist in Residence, Sculpture Space, Inc |
| 1996 | New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship |
| U.S. Representative of Arts and Technology, Global Youth Exchange Grant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan | |
| 1989 | Camille Hanks Cosby Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
Julia Furlan, ” Google Helps Brooklyn Artist Bring New Founding Father to Life,” WNYC Culture (July 2011)
Mayukh Sen, “Revolution is His Drug,” ArtLog
Tambay A. Obenson, ” Multimedia Project On Slave-Turned-Spy, James Armistead Lafayette, Premieres This Week!,” (June 2011)
Steve Parks, ‘“Photo Finish”: Islip black history show,” New York Newsday (February 2011)
Pia Catton, “A Fête for the Whitney,” The Wall Street Journal (June 11, 2010)
Timo Rissanen, ” Resurrectine,” Fashion Creation Without Fabric Waste Creation, Blog (June 2010)
Jack Bryan, “Worlds Collide at the Whitney Art Party,” The Daily Beast
Mark Asch, ” Wicked Artsy,” The L Magazine (June 2009)