Marsha Kennedy

About Marsha

Marsha Kennedy was born in 1951 in Regina, Saskatchewan. Marsha spent her toddler years in Rouleau, Saskatchewan. She attended public school in Regina graduating with the Central Collegiate Fine Arts Program after studying with MacGregor Hone for two years. For the next decade, she remained in Regina receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Regina in 1977. She moved to Toronto from 1979 to 1990 where she exhibited her art in local and provincial galleries. Marsha Kennedy received her MFA from York University in 1981. Marsha was an instructor at York University, University of Guelph, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. In 1991, she started teaching drawing and painting at the University of Regina. Her work is found in fine art museums across Canada. Since the 1970s, she has exhibited her painting throughout North America. Man vs Nature or Man as a part of nature is a reoccurring theme of her painting. She uses scientific imagery juxtaposed against traditional symbolism in beautiful yet stark renderings of the human relationship with the cosmos.