[5] Kennedy studied at Limerick School of Art and Design, exhibiting at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in 1982 and graduating in 1983.
[6] He also attended the University of Cincinnati, receiving his Master of Fine Arts in 1989.
[7] He is chiefly active in oil painting of landscapes and seascapes, on canvas and linen.
[8][9] In 2017 he won a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award and was elected to Aosdána.
"[12] Kennedy lives and works in Dublin and County Mayo.