Francis Kenna is an emerging artist based in Canberra, Australia, whose spatial practice spans installation, sculpture, printmedia and drawing. Kenna’s practice is an ongoing investigation of perception and our engagement with the world around us.

His work often takes place as a series of experiments and interventions in architectural space, centred on our temporal and embodied perception of space, objects and atmospheric phenomena.

Kenna holds a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) (Honours 1st Class) from the Australian National University, Canberra.

His PhD research explores the felt experience of architectural atmospheres, duration and spatial perception.

Kenna has held a number of solo exhibitions and was included in Expanded Architecture: Temporal Formal in 2015, where he staged a large-scale public installation at Grosvenor Place, Sydney by Australian architect Harry Seidler.

In 2018 he was awarded the 2018 CAPO Curatorial Internship Award and in 2019 he curated Formfull : Formless : the 5th CAPO Emerging Artists’ Exhibition and Prize.