Kevin Jerome Everson was born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio. He has a MFA from Ohio University and a BFA from the University of Akron. He is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Everson was awarded the prestigious 2012 Alpert Award for Film/Video and was the subject in spring 2012 of a mid-career retrospective at Visions du Reel, Nyon Switzerland, a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2011 and a retrospective at Centre Pompidou in 2009. His films have been featured at the 2008 and 2012 Whitney Biennials and the 2012 Sharjah Biennial. 2014 solo museum exhibitions include SECCA (Southeastern Center for the Arts) Winston-Salem, NC and the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA. His artwork--paintings, sculptures, and photographs--and films, including seven features (Spicebush, 2005; Cinnamon, 2006; The Golden Age of Fish, 2008; Erie, 2010; Quality Control, 2011; The Island of St. Matthews, 2013 and the recently completed eight hour documentary Park Lanes, 2015) and over 120 short form works, have been exhibited internationally at film festivals, cinemas, galleries, museums and public and private art institutions.