KAI JENRETTE
Kai Jenrette (b. 2001, Baltimore, MD) lives and works in New York, USA. Jenrette received a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art. In 2024, he participated in the Haystack Open Studio Residency in Maine.
Recent exhibitions include Sprocket at LVL3, Chicago (2025); To Be Seen By Heavy Eyes at Silke Lindner, New York (2025); Muffler at April April, Pittsburgh (2024); Benefit Show at White Columns, New York (2024); real bad at The Cooper Union, New York (2023); exy ilence at The Cooper Union, New York (2023), among others.
Jenrette’s work has been featured in LVL3 Chicago, i-D Magazine, Common Discourse, and Are.na. In 2024, Jenrette was awarded the Pietro and Alfrieda Montana Prize for Excellence in Drawing from The Cooper Union. Jenrette works KENNY + PENNY (2023) and I’m Perfect Life’s Perfect... (2024) have been acquired by the National Gallery of Art Library.
Courtesy MAMOTH, London.
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