Kerry Downey

Kerry Downey (1979, Ft. Lauderdale) is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher based in New York City. She holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work has recently shown at CCS at Bard College, Taylor Macklin in Zurich, Franklin Street Works (CT), Columbia University (NYC), Invisible Dog (Brooklyn), A.I.R Gallery (Brooklyn), Spectacle Theater (Brooklyn), and NURTUREart (Brooklyn). Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, The Village Voice, and The New Yorker. In 2014 she co-curated Failing to Levitate at The EFA Project Space with Natasha Marie Llorens. She is a current participant in the Drawing Center's Open Sessions and was a Queer/Art/Mentorship Fellow in 2012-13. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Vermont Studio Center and Real Time and Space (Oakland). Downey teaches at the Museum of Modern Art, Parsons, and Hunter College.