Kevin Demery


Kevin Demery was born in 1992 in Modesto, CA. He is a 2014 BFA graduate of the California College of the Arts and a 2018 MFA graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2013, he has shown in solo and group shows in both public and private art exhibition spaces across the Unites States. He recently participated in two artist residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha (NE) and the Acre Artist in Residence in Steuben (WI).

Kevin Demery's works explore the interplay between North American history and signifiers of power, developing a painterly language that invites us to move between the potent aesthetic of his work and recurring motifs of historical violence, surveillance and childhood trauma. His most recent series of works show photo cut outs on the background of geometric color blocks with objects hanging from ropes or chains draped over the canvas, thereby merging the two-dimensional with the three-dimensional to form poetic snippets of history and collective reflection.


Available Works


Kevin Demery: Untitled (Wind Chime)

Untitled (Wind Chime)

Kevin Demery

2022

Cut Wood and wind chimes

45 1/4 x 11 4/5 x 11 4/5 in | 115 x 30 x 30 cm

Kevin Demery: Untitled (Wind Chime)

Untitled (Wind Chime)

Kevin Demery

2022

Cut Wood and wind chimes

45 1/4 x 11 4/5 x 11 4/5 in | 115 x 30 x 30 cm

Kevin Demery: A Is for Ancestry

A Is for Ancestry

Kevin Demery

2022

Kevin Demery

29 9/10 x 22 in | 76 x 56 cm

Kevin Demery: B Is for the Blue Line

B Is for the Blue Line

Kevin Demery

2022

Kevin Demery

29 9/10 x 22 in | 76 x 56 cm

Kevin Demery: E Is for Erasure

E Is for Erasure

Kevin Demery

2022

Kevin Demery

29 9/10 x 22 in | 76 x 56 cm

Kevin Demery: Kevin Demery (Gone With the Wind)

Kevin Demery (Gone With the Wind)

Kevin Demery

2021

Wood and plastic

Varying sizes

Kevin Demery: Untitled (Menagerie)

Untitled (Menagerie)

Kevin Demery

2022

Acetone print on paper

11 x 15 in | 28 x 38 cm

Kevin Demery: Untitled (Menagerie)

Untitled (Menagerie)

Kevin Demery

2022

Acetone print on paper

11 x 15 in | 28 x 38 cm

Kevin Demery: Untitled (Menagerie)

Untitled (Menagerie)

Kevin Demery

2022

Acetone print on paper

11 x 15 in | 28 x 38 cm

Kevin Demery: Boy Looks Like a Man

Boy Looks Like a Man

Kevin Demery

2017

Coins, black beans, handbag, collage and acrylic on canvas

36 x 36 in | 91.5 x 91.5 cm

Kevin Demery: Bricks

Bricks

Kevin Demery

2018

Oil stick, chalk and acrylic on canvas

36 x 36 in | 91.5 x 91.5 cm

Kevin Demery: Colors Above

Colors Above

Kevin Demery

2018

Chain, leather and canvas bags, sandals, chalk and acrylic on canvas

54 x 54 in | 137.2 x 137.2 cm

Kevin Demery: I Heard God Laughing

I Heard God Laughing

Sculpture (wind chime)

2018

Pine wood, conduit pipes, aluminum and acrylic

24 x 18 in | 61 x 45.8 cm

Kevin Demery: In Support of Your Child

In Support of Your Child

Kevin Demery

2018

Sneakers, shoestring, collage and acrylic on canvas

48 x 42 in | 122 x 106.8 cm

Kevin Demery: In the Wilderness and Windfall of Our Existence

In the Wilderness and Windfall of Our Existence

Sculpture (wind chime)

2018

Pine wood, conduit pipes, aluminum and acrylic

32 x 18 in | 81.2 x 45.8 cm

Kevin Demery: No Outlet

No Outlet

Kevin Demery

2018

Chain, leather bag, collage and acrylic on canvas

24 x 24 in | 61 x 61 cm

Kevin Demery: Thankful for the Inheritance of the Blues

Thankful for the Inheritance of the Blues

Kevin Demery

2018

Cardboard letters, various handbags, coins, glitter, collage and acrylic on canvas

30 x 30 in | 76.2 x 76.2 cm

Kevin Demery: Jumbalaya Hot Spring

Jumbalaya Hot Spring

Kevin Demery

2019

Wreath, rice, collage and acrylic on canvas

24 x 24 in | 61 x 61 cm

Kevin Demery: Untitled

Untitled

Kevin Demery

2019

Rope, metal stars, coins, collage and acrylic on canvas

20 x 20 in | 50.8 x 50.8 cm


Exhibitions & Art Fairs

Intimations

Intimations

Osi Audu, Larry Bonćhaka, Kevin Demery, Mbali Dhlamini, Mario Joyce, Sekai Machache, Nnenna Okore, Owanto, Ghizlane Sahli

30 Nov - 23 Dec 2023

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Kevin Demery: Menagerie

Menagerie

Kevin Demery

9 Jun - 23 Jul 2022

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Cologne Fine Art & Design 2021

Cologne Fine Art & Design

Tega Akpokona, Osi Audu, Kevin Demery, Mbali Dhlamini, Ghizlane Sahli

17 - 21 November 2021

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Accrochage 2020

Accrochage

Osi Audu, Kevin Demery, Nnenna Okore, Ghizlane Sahli, Bambo Sibiya

7 Jan - 8 Feb 2020

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Art Berlin 2019

Art Berlin

Kevin Demery, Zanele Muholi, Lindeka Qampi, Bambo Sibiya, Adejoke Tugbiyele

12 - 15 September 2019

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Kevin Demery: Power Lines

Power Lines

Kevin Demery

16 May - 22 Jun 2019

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