Kevin McCoy

Kevin McCoy’s (b. 1967; Seattle, Washington) collaborative multimedia artworks, made with his partner Jennifer McCoy (b. 1968; Sacramento, California), examine the genres and conventions of filmmaking, memory, and language. The McCoys are well-known for constructing subjective databases of narrative material and making fragmentary miniature film sets with lights, video cameras, and moving sculptural elements to create live cinematic events. Their work has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the British Film Institute, London; Kunstverein Hannover, Germany; the Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California, Irvine; PKM Gallery, Beijing; the San Jose Museum of Art, California; Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; the Sundance Film Festival; and Artists Space, New York. Their work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum; MoMA; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the 21C Museum Hotels; and the Speed Art Museum, Louisville. They have received a Creative Capital Award (2002), the WIRED Rave Award for Art (2005), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011), and a Headlands Alumni Award (2014).