Kenni was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and moved to Arizona in 2003, where she spent two decades developing her career as a multi/interdisciplinary artist and educator. She has shown most of her work throughout the Southwest and Midwest, at  Vox Populi in PA, the Kyoto Saga University of Arts in Japan, and was a featured artist in Bradley University’s International Print and Draw Exhibition in 2019. Since receiving her MFA in 2022 from the University of Arizona, she has returned to her hometown where she has curated local art shows and completed a residency in printmaking at the Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts.

Her practice shifts around accessibility. Using processes like embroidery and photoshop, materials like phones & trash: she combines personal archives with performance, drawing, printmaking, and found “things” to create works that range from unreal to hyper present, and to interrogate American ideas and aesthetics around nostalgia. Pulling from daily life (in poetry, on the internet, in thrift stores, and sidewalks), she celebrates raw edges and loose ends to reference a human experience that is both pre-fashioned and alterable.

She is currently working with local musicians to score video work produced during COVID-19, custom designing crochet, writing on her experience as a first generation student in the world of art academia, & developing a series of mixed media work that incorporates performance to navigate the emotional and awkward experience of reliving childhood through place and memory.