Betsy Kenyon

Originally from California and a westerner at heart, Betsy Kenyon has spent much of her adult life on the east coast and currently resides in New York City. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kenyon’s artistic pursuits and exhibitions have taken her across the country and around the globe. Kenyon's project Four Directions was exhibited at the United Nations in New York City, a body of work conceived while traveling the contiguous United States during an artist residency in a camper van. Her book and photo project “Slumber” captures the isolated and surreal nights of unrest during the Covid pandemic, and was exhibited and published in Seoul, South Korea Memento Mori, her first film short is set for release in 2025.

Kenyon’s artwork can be found in many collections: including the Centre Georges Pompidou, The Art Institute of Chicago Photography Collection, Museum of Modern Art/Franklin Furnace Book Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art Library, and Yale University Art and Architecture Library.

Celestial Bodies marks Kenyon’s second exhibition at TINT. In her new “Solar Drawing Series,” film and a moving pinhole camera are used to draw with the sun. The sun as light source, as the element of fire, as a point to circle, creating lens-like shapes in space.