Abbi Kenny

Abbi Kenny is an emerging artist and painter living and working in Boston, MA. She is an MFA candidate in painting at Boston University College of Fine Arts. She received her BFA with honors in painting and a concentration in the Theory and Histor...

Abbi Kenny is an emerging artist and painter living and working in Boston, MA. She is an MFA candidate in painting at Boston University College of Fine Arts. She received her BFA with honors in painting and a concentration in the Theory and History of Art and Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2020. At RISD, she participated in the European Honors Program in Rome, Italy. After completing her undergraduate degree, she worked in the Nicholson File Artist Studios in Providence, RI, until moving to Toronto, Canada, in August 2021, then to Boston. Abbi is a recipient of the Royal Drawing School’s Dumfries House Estate drawing residency and grant near Cumnock, Scotland (2019) and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in painting (2022). Her work has been exhibited across the Northeast.