Arnold J. Kemp

2025 Stepping Stone Grantee

Arnold J. Kemp lives and works in Chicago, IL. His works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Portland Art Museum, the Schneider Museum of Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, and the Hammer Art Museum. Recent exhibitions include Less Like an Object, More Like the Weather, Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago; False Hydras, JOAN, Los Angeles; and When the Sick Rule The World, Biquini Wax, EPS, Mexico City. Forthcoming in 2026, a mid-career survey, Not One Thing at Tufts University Art Galleries and Arnold J. Kemp: A Reader, co-published No Place Press and Tufts University Art Galleries.