KEVIN JEROME EVERSON
Sep. 22, 2020
Virtual Event
KEVIN JEROME EVERSON was born and raised in Mansfield Ohio. He has a MFA from Ohio University and a BFA from the University of Akron. He is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville Virginia. He has made nine feature length films and over one-hundred and sixty short films including Tonsler Park (2017), The Island of Saint Matthews (2013), Erie (2010), Quality Control (2011), Ten Five in the Grass (2012), Ears, Nose and Throat (2016), Spicebush (2005), Stone (2013), Pictures From Dorothy (2004), Century (2013), Fe26 (2014), Sound That 20014), Sugarcoated Arsenic (2013) with Claudrena Harold, Emergency Needs (2007) and the eight-hour long film Park Lanes (2015). He also has two DVD box sets of his films called Broad Daylight and Other Times and I Really Hear Something: Quality Control and Other Films with a catalog distributed by Video Data Bank.
Everson’s films and artwork have been widely shown at venues including Sundance Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Oberhausen Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Smithsonian Museum of African-American History in Washington D.C., The Tate Modern in London, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York and Centre Pompidou in Paris. The films were streamed on multiple platform sites including Made in America: Cinema of Kevin Jerome Everson on MUBI. The work has also been recognized through awards and fellowships such as Guggenheim Fellowship, an Alpert Award, a Heinz Award, a Creative Capital Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, an American Academy in Rome Prize and an American Academy in Berlin Prize.
Everson is represented by Picture Palace Pictures New York and Andrew Kreps Gallery New York.
Kevin Jerome Everson screened a program of films for the MACC audience asynchronously, followed by a post-screening discussion and Q&A. Featured films included:
- Tonsler Park, 2017, B&W, 80:00
- Hampton (co-directed Claudrena Harold), 2019, B&W, 6:00
- Traveling Shoes, 2019, B&W, 7:00
- Black Bus Stop (co-directed Claudrena Harold), 2019, Color, 9:25
- Brown Thrasher, 2020, Color, 2:46
- Mockingbird, 2020, B&W, 3:00
- Inventory, 2020, B&W, 5:00
- Recovery, 2020, B&W, 10:19