Kevin Ford

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Norwalk, CT

Year at Millay: 2023

Website: https://kevinfordstudio.com/

“I currently live in suburban southwestern Connecticut and work in a 100 sq ft studio that I have carved out of the corner of the basement in my home. Along with maintaining a vigorous studio practice and exhibition schedule, I am also currently the head of the studio art department at a small private K-12 school and an adjunct lecturer in the studio art department at a local liberal arts college. I received my MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale and my BFA in Painting from Boston University. I have had solo exhibitions at Hesse Flatow, New York, NY, Dieu Donné, New York, NY, 12.26 Gallery, Dallas, TX, Essex Flowers, New York, NY, Semiose Galerie, Paris, FR, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN. , Lukasc Gallery at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, and at MARCH, New York, NY. My work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, ME, Kipnz, NY, Inman Gallery, TX, Reyes Finn, MI, Casey Kaplan Gallery, NY, The Islip Art Museum, NY, IRL, NY, Marquee Projects, NY, Tops Gallery, TN, Lehman College Art Gallery, NY, 5-50 Gallery, NY, , Slocumb Gallery at ETSU, TN, Bedford Gallery, CA, Fingesten Gallery at Pace University, NY, Allen Gallery, NY, NYIT Art Gallery, NY, Silvermine Gallery, CT, Firehouse Gallery, VT, among others. My work has been featured in V Magazine, Scholastic Art Magazine, included in the book Artists II, by Jason Schmidt, published by Steidl, and has been reviewed in ARTFORUM, The New York Times, Burnaway, Two Coats of Paint, and other publications. I am the recipient of a Paul Harper Residency Fellowship for excellence in painting from Yale University, a project Grant from the Carriage House Gallery at the Islip Art Museum in NY, and a Denis Diderot Artist in Residence Grant from the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist Residency, in France. I have attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and at the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist Residency in Champagne-Ardenne, France. I am also the founder and director of Fish Island Gallery, an artist-run seasonal alternative exhibition space located on a deserted island in the Long Island Sound off the coast of southwestern Connecticut.”