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Kevin Jerome Everson

Born 1965 - Mansfield, Ohio

Kevin Jerome Everson lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia. Recipient of the Guggenheim, Heinz Award in Art and Humanities, Berlin Prize, Alpert Award for Film/Video, Rome Prize, Everson's art practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film, 12 award-winning features and over 250 solo and collaborative short form works that screen regularly at international film festivals, cinemas, galleries, museums and art biennials. 

Everson's work has been the subject of retrospectives and solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern/Film, London, Highline, NYC, Cinema du Reel/Centre Pompidou, Paris, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, Canada (in association with Media City Film Festival), Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC, Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz, Austria, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,  Seoul, Glasgow Shorts, Cinematek Brussels, Cork International Film Festival, Visions du Reel, Nyon, and the Harvard Film Archive . His films have been featured at the Whitney Biennial (2008, 2012, 2017), the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, the 2018 Carnegie International, the 2023 Contour Biennale, Mechelen, Belgium and the 2024 Thailand Biennale.  

Everson’s award-winning films regularly screen at international film festivals including Black Star, Sundance, IFFR, Berlinale, Cinema du Reel, EMAF, Courtisane, Locarno, Venice, Toronto, New York Film Festival, BFI/London, Doc Lisboa, True/False, Crossroads, Media City, Indie Memphis, AFI Fest, Chicago International Film Festival, BAFICI, Ann Arbor, Porto Post/Doc, ,Jeonju, cinemas, galleries, museums and public and private art institutions, including Whitechapel, London, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Reina Sofia, Madrid, LUMA Foundation, Switzerland, National Museum of African American History, Washington, D.C., MOCA, L.A., Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and REDCAT, Los Angeles. 

A three DVD boxed set, Broad Daylight and Other Times, was released by the Video Data Bank (U.S.) in 2011, and a compilation dedicated to films focusing on the subject of labor, I Really Hear That: Quality Control and Other Works, was released by VDB in summer 2017. The compilation contains the feature film Quality Control (2011), included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial.

Everson has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, NEA, NEH, Ohio Arts Council, and the Virginia Museum,  grants from the Wexner Center for the Arts, Creative Capital and the Mid-Atlantic, residencies at Mobile Frames/Media City (Windsor/Detroit), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Yaddo and MacDowell Colony, and numerous university fellowships.


Available Titles by Kevin Jerome Everson

Title Year Runtime Collection
140 Over 90 2008 00:02:11 Single Titles
70kg 2017 00:02:28 Single Titles
72 2002 00:03:30 Single Titles
753 McPherson Street 2009 00:02:00 Single Titles
Accidental Athlete 2023 00:07:11 Single Titles
Aquarius 2003 00:01:30 Single Titles
Black Bus Stop 2019 00:09:25 Single Titles
Blind Huber 2005 00:02:00 Single Titles
Broad Daylight and Other Times: Selected Works of Kevin Jerome Everson 2011 03:02:04 Box Sets
BZV 2010 00:30:00 Single Titles
Can You Move Like This: Black Fire 2023 01:34:51 New Releases, Single Artist Compilations
Cinnamon 2006 01:10:00 Single Titles
Company Line 2009 00:30:00 Single Titles
Fastest Man in the State 2017 00:10:00 Single Titles
Fifeville 2005 00:15:00 Single Titles
Foosball: U. of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 1976 2013 00:11:09 Single Titles
Gospel Hill 2022 00:05:25 Single Titles
Half On, Half Off 2011 00:03:36 Single Titles
Hampton 2019 00:06:35 Single Titles
Home 2008 00:01:30 Single Titles
How Can I Ever Be Late 2017 00:04:39 Single Titles
I Really Hear That: Quality Control and Other Works 2017 02:49:00 Compilations, Single Artist Compilations
Ike 2008 00:02:30 Single Titles
Lead 2009 00:03:00 Single Titles
Mansfield Product Company 2014 00:02:15 Single Titles
Old Cat 2009 00:11:25 Single Titles
The Picnic 2007 00:02:30 Single Titles
Pictures from Dorothy 2003 00:05:30 Single Titles
Playing Dead 2008 00:01:30 Single Titles
Pride 2021 00:07:21 Single Titles
Quality Control 2011 01:11:00 Single Titles
Ring 2008 00:01:30 Single Titles
Second and Lee 2008 00:03:00 Single Titles
Something Else 2007 00:02:00 Single Titles
Sound That 2014 00:11:40 Single Titles
Sportello Quattro 2002 00:06:00 Single Titles
Sugarcoated Arsenic 2013 00:20:19 Single Titles
Ten Five in the Grass 2012 00:32:00 Single Titles
Twenty Minutes 2005 00:03:00 Single Titles
Two-Week Vacation 2005 00:01:16 Single Titles
Undefeated 2008 00:03:00 Single Titles
Vanessa 2002 00:03:12 Single Titles
We Demand 2016 00:10:19 Single Titles
A Week in the Hole 2001 00:06:00 Single Titles

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