CV — Kannetha Brown-Ngeth

Kannetha Brown-Ngeth

www.kannethabrown.com
kannethasphotos@gmail.com

Based between Providence, RI and Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Education

BFA, Photography, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Departmental and Academic Honors

Awards (Selected)

2026 Fulbright Fellowship (Cambodia)
2026 Macoll Johnson Fellowship Finalist
2025 Beatrice S. Demers Fellowship (Cambodia)
2025 Booooooom Photo Awards Longlist
2025 RISCA Make Art Grant
2024 Interlace Grant
2024 Mayoral Citizen Citation
2024 Kun Khmer International Federation Recognition
2023 Morton R. Godine Fellowship
2023 New York Times Portfolio Review
2022 Women Photograph Project Grant Shortlist
2022 Massachusetts College of Art Global Competence Award
2022 Anderson Ranch Scholarship

Solo Exhibits

2027 My Sisters Sleep in Battambang, AS220 (Providence)
2027 My Sisters Sleep in Battambang, Thnaal Art Farm (Battambang)
2023 Two Oceans, AS220 (Providence)

Group Exhibits (Selected)

2026 Identity Through Life Experiences, Samaki Center (Long Beach)
2026 The Soul Selects Their Own Body, Lesley University (Boston)
2026 America: Unfinished, WaterFire Arts Center (Providence)
2026 These Truths, AS220 (Providence)
2026 Homecoming, Punto Urban Art Museum (Peabody)
2026 Paris + Friends, Providence Public Library (Providence)
2025 My Grandmother is an Altar, Lesley University (Boston)
2025 Idioms of Distress: Being Khmer Elsewhere, AS220 (Providence)
2025 Big Camera Show, University of Iowa (Iowa City)
2024 When I Get Home, WaterFire Arts Center (Providence)
2023 Fujifilm Biennial, Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester)
2023 Pictures and Progress, Massachusetts College of Art & Design (Boston)
2022 Community Invitational, Providence Art Club (Providence)
2021 GRRL Telephone, GRRL HAUS CINEMA (Berlin)
2021 Take Space, Jean McDonough Arts Center (Worcester)

Public Art

2022 Public Portrait Installation (Providence)

Residencies

2027 Hyde Park Arts Center (Chicago)
2026 Bossbha’s House (Battambang)
2023 WaterFire Arts Center (Providence)
2023 The Graduate Hotel (Providence)

Collections

Providence Art, Culture, Tourism (ACT)
MassArt Justice, Equity, Transformation (JET)

Lectures (Selected)

2026 Brown University Southeast Asian Studies Symposium (Providence)
2026 Massachusetts College of Art & Design (Boston)
2025 Canadian International School (Phnom Penh)
2025 Rhode Island School of Design CE (Providence)
2025 Leica Store & Gallery (Boston)
2025 Lesley University (Boston)
2025 AS220 (Providence)
2024 Bryant University (Lincoln)
2024 City Hall (Providence)
2024 Brown University Center for Students of Color (Providence)
2024 WaterFire Arts Center (Providence)
2024 Providence Art, Culture, Tourism (Providence)
2021 Rhode Island Historical Society (Providence)

Publications (Selected)

New York Times
Rolling Stone
ELLE USA
Hyperallergic
Boston Globe
Boston Art Review

Press (Selected)

It’s Nice That
Andy Warhol Foundation
New England Art News
Library of Congress

Board Member

Cambodian Society of Rhode Island, Director of Marketing and Communications