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 both spiritual and material traditions, Brown uses analog processes to preserve and reinterpret archival imagery and inherited stories. She has exhibited at Lesley University, the University of Iowa, and Rochester Institute of Technology, and has been featured in The New York Times and Rolling Stone. She is a recipient of the Beatrice S. Demers Language Fellowship (2025), the Andy Warhol Foundation "Interlace” Grant (2024), and the Morton R. Godine Fellowship (2023), 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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