Adele Kenworthy

Adele 이슬 Kenworthy (she/they) is a 1.5 generation Korean American artist-organizer whose work centers the AANHPI femme experience transforming ephemeral, organic materials like cut florals and fruits into living monuments and counter memories existing in public.

Kenworthy explores what gestures and rituals we hold as sites of comfort during occupation and war.  A recipient of the 2025-26 Virginia Museum of Fine Art Visual Arts Professional Fellowship (New+Emerging Media), she has held residencies at the Washington Project for the Arts (2022), MOCA Arlington ISS (2025), and Torpedo Factory Arts Center (2025).  Her practice has received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, Smithsonian APAC, Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, and Maryland State Arts Council. Their work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Goethe-Institut USA, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Art Basel Miami. Kenworthy holds her MFA from the Corcoran School of Arts and Design, receiving the 2022 Outstanding MFA Award. She lives and works on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway and Nacotchtank (Anacostan) people, in the Washington, D.C metro area.

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