Kenda North

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Kenda North
Born1951 (age 7273)
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Known forPhotography
Website kendanorth.com

Kenda North (born 1951 Chicago) is an American photographer. [1] She attended Colorado College and the Visual Studies Workshop. [2] Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [1] the Art Institute of Chicago, [3] the Minneapolis Institute of Art [4] and the International Center of Photography. [5]

A native of Chicago, North later became chair of the art department at the University of Texas at Arlington. She was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1997. [1]

In 2017, the Arlington Museum of Art showed a retrospective of North's work titled "Seeing is a Nervous Habit". [6]

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  4. "Coppertone Girl, 1976 - Kenda North". Minneapolis Institute of Art . Archived from the original on 14 March 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
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