Kennedy Yanko (born October 21, 1988, in St. Louis, Missouri)[1][2] is an American sculptor, painter and installation artist known for working with "paint skins" and found metal.

[3] Yanko sources discarded objects and other material from salvage yards and manipulates or modifies their form, shape, or structure into her vision.

The paint skin thus becomes a structural material not dissimilar from the metal she utilizes in her sculptures.

[6] In 2023, she presented the solo exhibition Kennedy Yanko: Tilted Lift at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, as part of this institution's Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead lawn program.

[8] In 2019, Yanko installed her first public sculpture, titled 3 WAYS, as part of the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition,[9] funded by the Helis Foundation, in New Orleans.