Neil Kendricks
[Image description: A headshot of Neil, looking down with a warm smile on his face. He is an African-American man with closely cropped hair and is wearing a denim jacket.] Photo: David Mollering.
Neil Kendricks is a filmmaker, artist, photographer, writer, educator, and the former Film Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Kendricks earned a Master’s degree in Television, Film, and New Media from San Diego State University in 2006. His award-winning short films like 2002’s Loop have screened at numerous international film festivals, including the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, the 2002 Havana Film Festival, and a special short-film screening at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival’s American Pavilion.
Kendricks’ photography has also been exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Art, the African-American Museum of Fine Arts, London’s Royal College of Art, and many other venues. His first solo photography exhibition, Bruised Eye Candy, was shown at San Diego’s now-defunct Spacecraft gallery in February 2008. Kendricks also produced, production designed, and storyboarded media theorist Jordan Crandall’s film, Heatseeking, which was shown at inSITE 2000 and exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s BitStream exhibition, the first digital-arts exhibition shown at a major American art museum.
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