Kevin Kunstadt

Teaches at Penumbra Foundation

(b. 1982, New York, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 2004, and his MFA in photography from Hartford Art School’s international limited residency program in 2017.  Kunstadt's work has been exhibited at such venues as: Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City, Kominek Gallery in Berlin, GE World Headquarters, and Smith College, among others. His work has been published in countless print and online publications including National Geographic, TIME, WIRED, Bloomberg, and AI-AP's American Photography 27 and 31. He served as the co-founder and co-director of K&K Gallery in Brooklyn, NY for three years, with a focus on promoting the work of young and un-established photographers in the New York City area, and from around the world. He has also collaborated on the design of several architectural projects that relate to vision, history, and social justice, the most recent of which is a Finalist in the Monument Avenue GD/GD design competition. Since 2010 Kunstadt has produced several photographic projects in book form, on subjects as varied as: asphalt road re-surfacing, gunpowder, scrap metal, and “sneakers, bricks, and politics.” Most recently these have been nominated for the Mack First Book Award, and  hortlisted for the Kassel, Luma Rencontres, Fiebre, and La Fabrica Dummy Awards. He recently collaborated with the Image Threads Collective to establish the first Photobook library in Havana, Cuba, and he has taught photography at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, NY, as well as through various workshops in Canada, and Cuba.