Kenni was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and moved to Arizona in 2003, where she has spent the last two decades developing her career as an artist and educator. Her interdisciplinary practice is one that shifts around accessibility, and her work explores themes around nostalgia, embodiment, and dissociation. Using hand and digital processes like embroidery and photoshop, she combines personal archives with performance, drawing, printmaking, and found materials to create works that range from unreal to hyper present. Pulling from daily life (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 received a BFA in Printmaking from Northern Arizona University in 2016, and completed her MFA at the University of Arizona in 2022 where she spent time translating her background in 2D into the realm of video and performance. While working toward her thesis, she was an instructor of record for Introduction to Drawing and Figure Drawing, and led a public workshop in alternative & DIY printmaking. She has shown most of her work throughout the Southwest and Midwest, at 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 graduating from the UofA, she has returned to her original homeplace of Kalamazoo. Drawing from Midwestern aesthetics that are saturated with themes of nostalgia, she is developing a series of mixed media work that incorporates performance to navigate the emotional and awkward experience of reliving childhood through place and memory.