Kevan Jenson
born Los Angeles, California 1958
Kevan was raised in a family of writers, artists and musicians in Los Angeles. At 17 he began studies at UC Berkeley, intending a career in math and science. At 18 he abandoned those plans and after encountering the work of Marcel Duchamp began a voyage towards a career in art.
Kevan subsequently spent time in Mexico City, Los Angeles, Berkeley, and New York. He currently resides in Berkeley, CA with his wife Maria and son Marcel Samuel.
Kevan has worked as a NYC cab driver, as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant, as an English teacher, as a video engineer, associate director, director, producer and a few other gigs. He completed two documentaries with psychologist James Hillman and is in the process of completing a book on his encounters with the work of Duchamp.
Of interest:

Kevan was apprenticed to sculptor Harold Paris at UC Berkeley and studied printmaking with Yuzo Nakano of Kala Institute in Berkeley.

In NYC he worked for Atelier Royce as a papermaker.

Kevan studied Tai Chi in NY with artist Theresa Cha.

He traveled to Milan with James Hillman to meet Arturo Schwarz for an extended discussion of Duchamp's last work Etant donnés.

Kevan is helped produce video artist Hito Steyerl's next piece on the Mojave aircraft boneyard. He met Hito in Berlin 20 years ago while working for Wim Wenders on "Until The End of the World".

Kevan has produced and designed two plays written and directed by his wife Maria Jenson.

In 2008, former MoMA curator and Professor Emeritus of UC Berkeley Peter Selz curated a 20 year retrospective of Kevan's work at Meridian Gallery in San Francisco.