Kevin Larmee (born 1946)[1] is an American painter, best known for his association with the East Village art movement in New York City in the 1980s.

[3] He and his wife, Susan Isono, moved to New York City in 1979, living in SoHo with their son, Blaise Larmee, who was born in 1985.

[1] In the early 1980s, the art scene in New York City began to shift from the SoHo neighborhood to the grittier East Village, with the opening of many new galleries there.

[13] Larmee's paintings of the 1980s were often set in nighttime urban environments, placing one or two solitary individuals on deserted streets or subway platforms,[5] or in front of glowing bodies of water,[14] juxtaposing the minimal figures with sharp colors and layers of patterns.

"[5] The New York Times wrote in 1986 that his paintings of moments on a subway platform "vibrate with the concentrated energy of moving trains.