Urban drawing by visionary Leon Kennedy.

"Leon Kennedy recording life. Man sleeping on bench." Pencil on canvas board.

One-Man Shows
Kings Gallery of the San Francisco Unitarian Universalist Church 2004
Oakland City Hall, Oakland, CA 2000
Berkeley Civic Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA 1992-2000
Windows Project 2020 Addison Street
Good Samaritan Baptist Church, Oakland, CA 1996
La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA 1995
West Berkeley Senior Citizens Center, Berkeley, CA 1992
Richmond City Hall, Richmond, CA 1988

Group Shows
Revolving Museum, Lowell "Race Class Gender" 2007
American Visionary Art Museum "Race, Class, Gender" 2006
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 2000
"Annual Holiday Arts Festival & Art Auction"
SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000
Visual Aid's "Big Deal"
San Francisco Arts Commission "Extraordinary Artists" 2000 curated by Bonnie Grossman, The Ames Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Green Bean, Oakland, CA 1999
The East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, Oakland, CA 1999
Sheppard Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 1996
"Memories and Visions: Self-Taught and Outsider Artists West of the Rockies"
African American Museum, Dallas, TX 1994
Skyline College, San Bruno, CA 1994
"Emerging Talent: African American Artists of California"
California State University, Hayward, CA 1992
"Vernacular Art"
Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA 1991
"The Gospel Connection" with Louis Estape
Oakland Museum of Art

Murals
West Berkeley Senior Citizens Center, Berkeley, California 1997
Good Samaritan Baptist Church, Oakland, California 1996
Whitney Community Center, San Francisco 1972
Commissioned through the San Francisco Arts Commission

Collections
The National Museum of American Art acquired 1997
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
House of Blues
Chuck and Jan Rosenak, authors of Contemporary American Folk Art, Abbeville, 1996
Jean and Richard Kellaway
Justin Massingale

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[boscobear33]

nice Leon

[kellaway]

mah name is justin kellaway