Biography
Kannetha Brown is a second-generation Cambodian-American artist working with photography, narrative history, and textiles as means of historical reckoning and cultural preservation. In the 1980s, her mother arrived in Rochester, New York, smuggling the only surviving family photographs through the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp after the Cambodian Genocide. These photographs became the foundation of their shared devotion to archiving, storytelling, and image-making. Drawing on spiritual and material traditions, Brown preserves and reinterprets personal and collective heritage.
Her work has been exhibited nationally at the University of Iowa, Lesley University, and The National Cambodian Heritage Museum (2026), and she has been featured in The New York Times and Rolling Stone. She has received funding from the Rhode Island Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Massachusetts College of Art, and has lectured at Leica, RISD, and Bryant University. She holds a BFA in Photography with Honors from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
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