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Kean is a transgender-identified, chronically ill, disabled, artist, curator, and educator with a longstanding commitment to radical pedagogy, community building, and grassroots organizing. His practice is rooted in community engagement which is evident in his theoretical approaches to photography, and in his intention to use his arts practice as a bridge to political organizing. Kean received his BFA in Photography from SAIC in 2008 and hiw MFA in Photography and Media from CalArts in 2011. 

Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Mapping Trauma (Summer Open with Aperture Foundation at Fotografiska NYC, 2020), Beyond Subjectivity (PhotoLA, 2020), FTM Searching (Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, South Korea, 2019). Recent and upcoming writing publications include Home: The Trans Body (FWD: Museum, published by UIC Museum Studies Department and Sister Spit, 2020), Boyle Heights and The Fight Against Gentrification As State Violence (The American Quarterly Journal, published by John Hopkins Press, 2019), Tracing Trauma (On The Bus, published by BazBam Press, 2018), The American Culture of Guns and Prisons (FAYN Magazine, 2017), In August 2020, they will be in residency at Jentel Space in Wyoming. I have lectured all over the country, including Emory College (2015), California State University, Long Beach (2015), California College for The Arts (2016), University of Illinois, Chicago (2017), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017), National Women's Studies Association Conference (2019), American Studies Association (2019), University of California, Santa Cruz (2019), University of Arizona, Tucson (2020). University of New Mexico, Albeququre (2020)