Abbi Kenny (b. 1998, Boston, MA)
Abbi Kenny is a painter based in the Hudson Valley whose work fuses material density with personal narrative. Her paintings often depict intimate domestic spaces—kitchens, tables, inherited recipes, and still lifes—rendered through layers of pouring, sanding, stenciling, and airbrushing. By collapsing observation and memory, Kenny transforms familiar interiors into charged meditations on labor, lineage, and the sensory life of place.
She received her MFA in Painting from Boston University College of Fine Arts in 2024 and her BFA in Painting, with a minor in Theory and History of Art and Design, from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2020, where she also attended the European Honors Program in Rome. Kenny has been an artist-in-residence at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and the Royal Drawing School’s Dumfries House in Scotland, and she is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in Painting.
Her work has been exhibited at Morgan Lehman Gallery (New York), Collar Works (Troy, NY), and the RISD Museum (Providence, RI), among others. She currently teaches Painting & Drawing at Purchase College, SUNY, and lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York.