BIOGRAPHY

Kevin Jerome Everson (b. Mansfield, Ohio, lives and works in Charlottesville, VA) is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia. Recipient of the Guggenheim, Heinz Award in Arts and Humanities, the Berlin Prize, Alpert Awards in Film/Video, the Rome Prize, and Creative Capital grants, Everson's art practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film, 12 award-winning features and over 250 solo and collaborative short form works that screen regularly at international film festivals (e.g. Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlinale, EMAF, Black Star, Venice, Toronto, NYFF, Jeonju) cinemas, galleries, museums and art biennials.
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Everson's work has been the subject of retrospectives and solo exhibitions including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern/Film, London, Highline, NYC, Cinema du Reel/Centre Pompidou, Paris, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, Canada (in association with Media City FF), Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC, Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz, Austria, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, and the Harvard Film Archive and was featured at the Whitney Biennial (2008, 2012, 2017), the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, the 2018 Carnegie International, the 2023 Contour Biennale, Mechelen, Belgium and the 2024 Thailand Biennale.

FRAMES OF REFERENCE, FALL 2024
KEVIN JEROME EVERSON

PROGRAM ONE: Wednesday, November 6th - 6pm
Jepson Hall 118, Jepson School, University of Richmond

During an Ears, Nose and Throat examination Shadeena Brooks recounts a horrible event she eye witnessed. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2016, 10:30, color)
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Hough 66 has the talented Fuego Mansa Mufasa exhibiting the visuals of the 1966 Cleveland Ohio uprising. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2023, 7:18, b&w, silent)
 
Inventory, based on Želimir Žilnik’s classic film Inventur, features figures descending a staircase at the Columbus Air Force Base, 14th Flying Training Wing in Columbus, Mississippi. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2020, 5:00, b&w)
 
Ninety-Three is a wonderful age to celebrate. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2008, 3:00, b&w)
 
IFO is about three famous UFO sightings over Mansfield, Ohio. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2017, 9:50, b&w)
 
Condor captures, in 16mm, the July 2, 2019, solar eclipse over the skies of coastal Chile in 100% totality. Part of a series of films documenting the solar eclipse including Polly One (2018) and Polly Two (2018) featuring the 2017 eclipse over North America. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2019, 7:40, b&w)
 
Recovery is about an airman training to be a pilot at Columbus Air Force Base 14th Flying Training Wing in Columbus, Mississippi. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2020, 10:19, b&w)
 
Cactus Wren is a film about a birdwatcher looking for the state bird of Arizona as well as seven other states. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2024, 3:10, color)
 
Practice Practice Practice 'Practice, Practice, Practice' is what Richard Bradley did before he took down the Confederate flag flying over City Hall in San Francisco, California in the 1980s during the Mayoral tenure of the future Senator Dianne Feinstein... (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2024, 10:06, b&w)


PROGRAM TWO: Thursday, November 7th - 6pm
Jepson Hall 118, Jepson School, University of Richmond

Century consists of a General Motors’ automobile, a Buick Century, meeting its fate. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2012, 6:40, color)
 
Traveling Shoes is based on the hit record by the Ohio based gospel group, The Brown Singers. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2019, 7:00, b&w)
 
The Daily Roster is called into action at a Columbus Mississippi firehouse. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2023, 3:50, b&w)
 
First Team Offense is made up of Bertha Everson’s great grandchildren. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2023, 3:13, b&w, silent)
 
Tunk has William Wanky Everson placing bets on his hand, color pair and high spade. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2024, 3:11, color)
 
If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move features Derek "Dripp" Whitfield Jr. and Taymond "ChoSkii" Hughes of the music group BmE composing and recording their latest composition, “Shiesty”, in the Columbus, Mississippi studio of Jermaine "Country Blakk" Brown only to be interrupted by a John Cage score. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2023, 12:20, color)
 
Eason, commissioned by the Scribe Video Center as part of the 100th anniversary of the great Black Migration in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is loosely based on the life of James Walker Hood Eason (1886-1923) a long-time member of the UNIA of Philadelphia. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2016, 15:00, color)
 
Union illustrates the Virginia Union University football working together. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2019, 3:00, color, silent)
 
May June July are represented with peonies, fireflies and the year 2020. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2021, 8:21, color)
 
Boyd v. Denton is the name of the landmark case that closed the Ohio State Reformatory in the artist's hometown of Mansfield, Ohio in 1990. The OSR has been used as a location for Hollywood blockbusters including 1997's Air Force One. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2023, 2:45, b&w)