Film Lingual II
July 17 - August 16, 2008
Tim Kennedy
T I M O T H Y K E N N E D Y
B I O
Timothy Kennedy is a Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Tampa. He received his B.A. from the University of Alaska in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984. His work is included in the permanent collections of the American Museum of Natural History; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY; the Bank of America, Tampa; the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska, the Tampa Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Onassis Collection.
Kennedy was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in the Republic of Fiji in 1993 where he created MONO PACIFICA, a major traveling exhibit of monochrome digital prints. In 2002, Kennedy’s photographs of Rome were selected for the Tampa Museum exhibition underCURRENT/overVIEW6. His MIDNIGHT SON: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN LEE HOOKER limited edition hardcover book was published in 2006 by the University of Tampa Press. In his July 20, 2006 book review for Las Vegas City Life, Jarret Keene wrote:
“Kennedy’s photos are as raw, primitive and pitiless as blues music itself. It’s almost as if he descended Orpheus-like into the maw of the underworld to retrieve these images, into a place where light is minimal and distant. Anyone searching for the visual essence of rock will be served well by Midnight Son. The book’s last three photos alone are worth the price of admission.”
In the underCURRENT/overVIEW6 catalog essay, Elaine Gustafson, Deputy Director and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Tampa Museum of Art observed:
“Timothy Kennedy’s pictures…demonstrate photography’s unique ability,
when in the hands of a skilled practitioner, to look coolly at the world and reflect on those moments in time when details of life…come together to tell a story.”
Timothy Kennedy was Program Producer of the National Film Board of Canada’s Challenge for Change Program and Director of the Alaskan SKYRIVER Program. A sixty country bibliographic study commissioned by UNESCO, Paris stated that both programs were the “classic models” for voice of the people use of video.
TIMOTHY KENNEDY
3312 W. Oakellar Avenue
Tampa , Florida, 33611
E-mail: tkennedy@ut.edu
813-835-0651
EDUCATION
Ph.D. B.A.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA
1984 1977
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
MIDNIGHT SON: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN LEE HOOKER
Primp Salon Gallery, Tampa, Florida
April – May 2005
underCURRENT/overVIEW 6
Tampa Museum of Art
July 13 – September 22, 2002
VANUA
Franciscan Center, Tampa, Florida
September 3 – December 22, 2002
f-STOP: 4 PERSPECTIVES
531 Central Fine Arts Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida
October 12 – November 6, 2002
MIDNIGHT SON: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN LEE HOOKER
531 Central Fine Arts Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida
October 12 – November 6, 2002
TROPICAL BOUNTY
531 Central Fine Arts Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida
May 1 - June 8, 2000
MONO PACIFICA
Scarfone Gallery, University of Tampa, Florida
September 6, 1996 - October 4, 1996 (Solo)
THE WATER SHOW
Brick Center for the Arts, Ocala, Florida
February 10,1996 - March10,1996
FIJI NATIONAL ART EXHIBITION
Fiji National Museum, Suva, Fiji
October 1, 1993 - October 8,1993
THE RECORDED IMAGE
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa Florida
October 6 – November 30,1989
FOTOVISIONS 81
Foto Gallery, Broome Street, NYC
1981
SNAP JUDGMENTS
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Cornell University, Ithaca,NY
June 15 – July 15,1979 (Solo)
ON-LINE GALLERY
Two portfolios from traveling exhibit MONO PACIFICA featured in online gallery
Photo Bistro sponsored by Photo Eye, Santa Fe, NM.
www.photobistro.com/TimothyKennedy
PUBLICATIONS
WHERE THE RIVERS MEET THE SKY
(First Edition Softcover Book)
Southbound Press, Penang, Malaysia
May 2008
MIDNIGHT SON: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN LEE HOOKER
(Limited Edition Hardcover Fine Art Book)
University of Tampa Press
May 1, 2006
Kotzebue, Alaska
B&W Print
Tampa Review 30
Irascible Palm
Cornice One
2 B&W Prints
Tampa Review 24
Maria, Montreal
Petty Harbour, Newfoundland
2 B&W Prints
Tampa Review 4
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
American Museum of Natural History, NYC
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Onassis Collection, NYC
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
Bank of America, Tampa, Florida
