Brigid Kennedy (b. Buffalo, NY) is an artist living in Wethersfield, CT whose current focus is painting. Kennedy earned her BA at the University of Toronto, her BFA from SUNY Buffalo, and her MFA at Yale University, School of Art. Kennedy's work is in the collections of The Burchfield Penney Art Center (Buffalo, NY); The New Britain Museum of American Art/NBMAA (New Britain, CT); Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (New York, NY); and Trinity College (Hartford, CT). Her solo exhibitions include The Castellani Museum (Niagara University, NY); Gallery on The Green (Canton, CT); ArtWalk/Hartford Public Library, (Hartford, CT); Five Points Gallery (Torrington, CT); Ely Center of Contemporary Art, (New Haven, CT); and Sculptors’ Guild, ‘State of Play’ installation, (Governors Island, NY). Recent group exhibitions include Zurcher Gallery’s ‘100 Women of Spirit’, (NYC), Carrie Haddad Gallery ‘If These Walls Could Talk’ (Hudson, NY), Silvermine Galleries, 74th and 75th A-ONE Exhibitions (New Canaan, CT); NBMAA Nor’Easter 2024 (New Britain, CT); The Flinn Gallery (Greenwich, CT); The Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury, CT); Carriage Trade Gallery, Odetta Gallery, Prince Street Gallery, and The Painting Center, (all NYC). Kennedy’s artistic contributions have been recognized with these awards: Greater Hartford Arts Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship Grant, Fulbright Scholar Lecture/Research Award in Chile, Connecticut State Commission on the Arts, Artists Project Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, three NEA Visual Artists Grants, and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell.