Garry Neill Kennedy, CM RCA (6 November 1935[1] – 8 August 2021) was a Canadian conceptual artist and educator from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Kennedy went on to teach in, and head, the fine art department of Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin.
[3] In 1967, at the age of 32, he was appointed president of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the youngest ever to serve in that position.
[5] His main artistic practice in the 2000s was based on the criticism of institutional power, ranging from office politics to corporate greed and government authority.
It was a project conceived in the early 1970s, and repeated several times in the following decades, in which he attempted to recall and record the names of people he has met since childhood.
[3] Kennedy was awarded the Portia White Prize by the Arts Council of Nova Scotia in 2000.