Michael Kennedy


Currently lives and works in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia


Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) - Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), 2024

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), 2018

Diploma of Visual Arts - RMIT University, 2015


Awards and residencies 

Cutler Prize, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), 2024

Stuart Black Memorial Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), 2024

Ursula Hoff Institute Inc. Drawing and Painting Award, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), 2018

DÔ-SÔ Artist Residency, Fujiyoshida, Japan, 2019


Writing and publications

Art + Australia, For Salote Tawale, Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commision, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), 2024


Collections

Works held in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea and Germany


Solo and curatorial exhibitions

2024 - Despair Spring - CAVES, Melbourne

2024 - Poetry Jam - Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne

2022 - Razorblade Romance - KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne

2022 - TEMPLE (Curatorial exhibition) - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne

2021 - Ember to Inferno - Rubicon ARI, Melbourne

2020 - A postnet folk fanfiction fairytalemythology: Part 2 - Underground Flower, Melbourne 

2020 - Zombies Everywhere (with Yolunda Hickman) - Sumer Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand

2019 - Why does the sun go on shining? なぜ朝日は輝くの? - DÔ-SÔ, Fujiyoshida, Japan

2018 - if only you were lonely - Bus Projects, Melbourne


Group exhibitions

2024

(a)flame - VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne

Twigg 2 - Twigg Space, Melbourne

Future Call - Elam, Te Waka Tūhura Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland

One by One - VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne

Future Call - VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne

Kings Fundraiser - KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne

JAWS 6 -  Off-Site, Naarm, South Melbourne Beach

Poetry Jam - Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne

Caves Fundraiser - CAVES, Melbourne

2023

Whole Fish - FELTspace, Adelaide

Kings Fundraiser - KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne

2022

SINK (Curated by Leena O’Luu and Joseph Dogget-Williams) - SUBLETspace, Melbourne

Caves Fundraiser - CAVES, Melbourne

TEMPLE - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Soft Quitting: We aint gonna live 4eva - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne

2021

encapsulated, Christopher L G Hill, CAVES, Melbourne

Choose Happiness, ft. collaborative work with Jemima Gale - Murray Art Museum, Albury

The Impressionists - Blindside, Melbourne

HELL ‘N’ BACK Again - CAVES, Melbourne

2020

Love you, wish you were here - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne

Mail Out Project - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne

HELL ‘N BACK - CAVES, Melbourne

Zombies Everywhere, with Yolunda Hickman - Sumer Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand

side to side, end to end - CAVES, Melbourne

Private Opulence Public Squalor - Off-site, Melbourne

Niche Fetisch #001, Niche Fetisch, Melbourne

2019

Friends and Family - Daine Singer, Melbourne 

School Hall Performance, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Exhibition/Fundraiser - Melbourne

and on the eyes black sleep of night part 2 - Firstdraft, Sydney

Sleeping Dogs Lie - ill Fame, Perth

and on the eyes black sleep of night (curated by Sarah Brasier) - SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne

GOODBYEHELLO - CAVES, Melbourne

The Process of Making - West Space, Melbourne

2018

Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition - Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne

Survival. Reproduction. Death. - Off site exhibition, Melbourne

Toys R Us - (curated by Beth Downing and Chris Madden) - Second Space Projects, Melbourne

Proud 2018 - Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

Night at the Nicholas (open studio) - The Nicholas Building, Swanston St, Melbourne

2017

Caves Fundraiser - CAVES, Swanston St, Melbourne

What are Chives Good For? - Living Museum of the West, Maribyrnong

38% Cucumber - George Paton Gallery, Project Space, University of Melbourne

Proud 2017 - Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

Painting as an Object (curated by Christopher L G Hill) - VCA Art Space, Melbourne

Jon Campbell’s Painting Vernacular - VCA Art Space, Melbourne

2016

Sunday - Colour Factory, Melbourne

Proud 2016 - Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

Paradise Lost - Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne

So Fresh - VCA Art Space, Melbourne

2015

Trash & Treasure - Strange Neighbour Gallery, Melbourne

Habits - Building 94, Melbourne