Kevin Bennett Moore (b. 1996) is a recent graduate with Departmental Honors from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (BFA '20) in Boston. His self-portrait based projects largely discuss queerness by utilizing the past to talk about current politics. Moore is influenced greatly by films of the 1950s & 60s, gender performativity, and ideals of mid-century American culture. He is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston, MA.
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Education
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA - BFA Photography
Class of 2020
Solo Exhibitions
2023
“George”, Blue Sky Gallery - Portland, OR - Currently on View
2021
“Safe in My Garden”, Gallery Kayafas - Boston, MA
Group Exhibitions
2022
“LensCulture New York 2022”, Caelum Gallery - New York, NY
2021
“Portraiture 2: Self, Mostly Photography”, Suffolk University Gallery - Boston, MA
“Unmasked: Artful Responses to the Pandemic”, Southern Vermont Arts Center - Manchester, VT
“Three Strong Visual Voices”, Beacon Street Gallery - Brookline, MA
2020
“New School”,Panopticon Gallery - Boston, MA
“Zhidong Zhang & Kevin Bennett Moore”, Alcove Gallery (Gallery Kayafas) - Boston, MA
“Separate/Together”, Southeast Museum of Photography - Daytona, FL
“Exposure 2020”, PRC, Boston, MA
“We Want as Much”, The Yards Collective - Rochester, NY
“Your Art LA”, SaveArtSpace - Los Angeles, CA
“All School Show, Photography”, Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Boston, MA
2019
“Dear Diary”, House of Venus - Boston, MA
“Personas”, Godine Family Gallery - Boston, MA
“Instant: A Polaroid Exhibition", Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Boston, MA
"PRC Student Show", Photographic Resource Center - Cambridge, MA
"All School Show", Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Boston, MA
"All School Show, Photography", Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Boston, MA
Online Exhibitions
2022
“Relentless Melt” , Launch F18
33rd Annual Massart Auction, Presented by Bidsquare
2021
32nd Annual Massart Auction, Presented by Bidsquare
2020
“Feature: Photo of the Day”, Don’t Take Pictures
“Utopia”, Castleton Art Galleries
“Global Design Graduate Show 2020”, Arts Thread x i-D
“Featured Artists: Kevin Bennett Moore”, Shelter in Place Gallery
“MassArt Graduating Senior 2020 Exhibition”, MassArt x Kunstmatrix
“Featured Artist: Kevin Moore”, Aviary Gallery
“New School”, Panopticon Gallery
31st Annual Massart Auction, Presented by Bidsquare
“Undergraduate Photography Now VIII”, PRC + Construction Area Gallery
“Rare Bird: Self-Portraits as Melodrama by Kevin Moore(Feature)”, Lensculture
“Student Thesis Work: Kevin Moore (Feature)”, Castleton Art Galleries
“The 2020 Self-Quarantining Exhibit”, Lenscratch
2019
“Haven’t We Met?”, Griffin Museum of Photography
Awards + Honors
2022 - New York Portfolio Review
2020 - Global Design Graduate Show. Winner of the judges vote in Photography, i-D x Artsthread
2020 - Critical Mass Top 50, Photolucida
2020 - Critics Choice, LensCulture
2020 - Fujifilm, Students of Storytelling
2020 - Third place winner of the 2020 Portrait Awards, LensCulture
2019 - Recipient of the McPhee Award as part of the Gertrude Kasabier Grants in Photography, Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Publications
Dear Dave Issue 30, Portfolio Feature, USA
FishEye Magazine, Kevin Moore pictures a queer and liberated America, set in the 1950s, France
What Will You Remember, Game Changers, USA