Background
Kathleen Kenyon was born in 1951 in Dunkirk, New York, United States.
Kathleen Kenyon was born in 1951 in Dunkirk, New York, United States.
Kenyon earned a BS from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (1973), and an MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington (1976).
She has been a visiting assistant professor of photography at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and director of the Woodstock Photography Workshops Program in Woodstock, New York. From 1976 to 1979 she taught photography at the University of Southern California School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles. She served on the executive board of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society in 1977-78. She served as vice-president of Southern California Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art in 1977-78 and its president in 1978- 79.
In 1977-78 the series "Fitting” investigated the ritual of dressing and undressing, and in 1978 she began a series of photographs entitled "Sacred Children," consisting of images of herself alone, her twin sister, and both together.
Kenyon has been a member since 1976 of the CAA, SPE, Women's Caucus for Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art and Los Angeles Printmaking Society. She joined the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies in 1978, and the Southern California Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art in 1977.