DEBBI KENOTE
Born 1991, Anacortes, WA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2016 MFA in Sculpture, CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
2014 BFA in Painting, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Solo Exhibition (forthcoming), Baker Hall, Miami, FL
2024 Fire Followers, My Pet Ram, New York, NY
Lacuna, Duran Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
2023 Surface Level, curated by Matt Logsdon, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Cross Cut: Debbi Kenote & Mark Sengbusch, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Reverse Reverb: Debbi Kenote & Zuriel Waters, Marvin Gardens Annex, Queens, NY
2022 Reflexion: Debbi Kenote & Manon Daviet, Duran Mashaal, Montreal, Quebec
2021 Re-Union: Debbi Kenote & Alyssa McClenaghan, Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 ZONA MACO, Cristin Tierney Gallery, Mexico City, MX
Off-Kilter, 5-50 Gallery, Queens, NY
2024 Sleight of Hand, Peep Projects, Philadelphia, PA
Washington Project for the Arts Benefit Auction, Washington, DC
ArteEast 21st Anniversary Benefit Auction, New York, NY
2023 Pizza, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Currents, Morris Adjmi Architects, New York, NY
Calibration Chamber, Good Naked x the Java Project, Brooklyn, NY
Foire Plural, Duran Contemporain Montreal, Quebec
Rearview Mirror, 5-50 Gallery, Queens, NY
2022 Shape Shifting, Hollis Taggart, Southport, CT
HER, Fir Gallery, Beijing, China
Belly of the Beast, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Toronto, Duran Contemporain, Toronto, Canada
Duck, Duck, Goose, Field of Play, Brooklyn, NY
An Outlet for my Recluse, Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA
2021 Day Marks, ARISOHN + MURPHY, Brooklyn, NY
I Am a Painting, SPRING/ BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
Summer Idylle, 5-50 Gallery, Queens, NY
2020 INDEX, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019 In-Between, CAI Projects, Cadiz, ES
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2025 Artist in Residence, Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN
2024 Artist Fellowship, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
2023 Artist in Residence, Mineral School, Mineral, WA
2022 Constance Saltonstall Fellowship, Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, NY
Artist in Residence, PLOP, London, United Kingdom
Fellowship Finalist, Innovate Grant
2021 Fellowship Finalist, Hopper Prize
2020 Artist in Residence, DNA Residency, Provincetown, MA
2019 Artist in Residence, CAI, Cadiz, ES
Artist in Residence, NES, Skagastrond, IS
2018 Emily Mason Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2025 Sculpture Show (forthcoming), Below Grand, New York, NY
2024 Off the Wall, Field of Play, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Belly of the Beast, SOIL, Seattle, WA
2021 I am a Painting, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2019 Risograph Inn, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2018 Hometown Hero, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2017 Filtergeist, Open House, Brooklyn, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 Sutton, Benjamin, Tariff anxieties are no match for buoyant mood at Mexico City’s Zona Maco, The Art Newspaper, February 7, 2025
Ekstrand, Anna Mikaela, ‘Off-Kilter’ at 5-50 Gallery is On Point, Whitehot Magazine, January 27, 2025
2024 Riley, Lucy, Debbi Kenote’s ‘Fire Followers,’ at My Pet Ram, Art Fuse, November 7, 2024
Carey, Brainard, Debbi Kenote, Yale University Radio WYBCX, April 17, 2024
Shelest, Anastasiya, Debbi Kenote Interview, Art as Form, March 21, 2024
Staff, NYC Selected Gallery Guide: March 2024, Two Coats of Paint, February 29, 2024
2023 Staff, Debbi Kenote Studio Visit and Artist Feature, Liquitex Paint, August 26, 2023
Staff, Debbi Kenote Artist Feature, Maake Magazine, June 26, 2023
Ray, Tom, Debbi Kenote: Painter, Tom Ray’s Art Podcast, June 24, 2023
Jennings, Phin, Painting on the Edge with Debbi Kenote, Rise Art, June 12, 2023
Arora, Charuka, Debbi Kenote on Staying True to Yourself as an Artist, ATH Podcast, June 9, 2023
Seidel, Nina, Puzzling Together Paintings and Stars with Debbi Kenote, Suboart Magazine, June 4, 2023
Staff, Artist Feature: Debbi Kenote, Booooooom Magazine, February 16, 2023
Mellen, Phillip J., Debbi Kenote Interview, Aht Cast, February 15, 2023
Di Liscia, Valentina, Eight New Art Spaces to Visist in Brooklyn, Hyperallergic, Jan 9, 2023
2022 Kang, Jane, At The Party, I Like Your Work, July, 2022
Mukul, Nitin. Epicenter NYC Monthly Artist Feature, Epicenter, October 18, 2022
Staff, Debbi Kenote’s Shifting Borders, Innovate Grant, June 28, 2022
Staff, Artist Spotlight - Debbi Kenote, Otravox, February 19, 2022
2021 Staff, Debbi Kenote - Artist Interview, The Hopper Prize, November 2021
Staff, Debbi Kenote | Conceptual Art, GOSS Magazine,
Farley, Michael Anthony, The Mythical, Mystical, and Heretical at SPRING/BREAK 2021, BMoreArt, September 10, 2021
2020 Staff, Interview with Debbi Kenote, Page Bond Gallery, VA, USA
Tsapovsky, Flora, When The World Is Too Certain To Commit, Rent Instead, Elle Magazine, November 11, 2020
Manthey, Olivia, 11 Artists We Are Obsessing Over Right Now, Vie Magazine, May 14, 2020
2018 Vogel, Maria, Debbi Kenote Plays with Form, Style and Imagery, Art of Choice, November 9, 2018