Kellen Powell

Kellen Powell is a visual artist originally from Vancouver, BC, now living in Austin, Texas.

His work explores the gaze of popular iconography and interrogates the space where shared meaning begins to fracture—where ways of seeing split into the known and the unknown.

With his first major body of work, Revisionist Westerns, Kellen challenges viewers by juxtaposing the familiar imagery of Hollywood westerns with a vulgar, expressive style of painting, destabilizing both nostalgia and narrative expectation.

Kellen Powell holds a Bachelor's of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

While at SFU Kellen studied under experimental filmmakers and installation artists, developing a multidisciplinary approach that would later inform his visual art practice. During this time, he created and performed live video works within Vancouver’s underground scene, blending analog textures with improvised media narratives.