Michael Kennedy graduated at the Victorian College of the Arts where he was the recipient of the Ursula Hoff Institute Inc. Drawing and Painting Award. Since then he has undergone an artist-in-residence program at DÔ-SÔ AIR in Japan. His work has been shown with a number of artist-run and commercial galleries in Australia, New Zealand and Japan. In addition to painting, he is a trained musician whose practice encompasses performance, video and sound.