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== Life ==
Kennedy was born in [[St. Catharines]], [[Ontario]]. He studied at the [[OCAD|Ontario College of Art]] (1960) and then earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|University at Buffalo]]. He completed his Master of Fine Arts at [[Ohio University]] in 1965. Kennedy went on to teach in, and head, the fine art department of Northland College in [[Ashland, Wisconsin]].<ref name="agns">{{cite web |title=Garry Neill Kennedy |url=https://artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/garry-neill-kennedy/ |website=artgalleryofnovascotia.ca |publisher=Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax |access-date=2021-07-05}}</ref> In 1967, at the age of 32, he was appointed president of the [[NSCAD University|Nova Scotia College of Art and Design]], the youngest ever to serve in that position. He was president of the college for 23 years, till
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== Legacy ==
In 2024, the [[Vancouver Art Gallery]] with the help of Cathy Busby, Kennedy's spouse, organized ''Horizons'', an exhibition conceived as a conceptual art project by Kennedy in which landscape paintings are rehung so that the horizon lines are at the eye level of the artist, and when viewed together they form one continuous horizon line around the gallery walls.<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/horizons/exhibitions/horizons |website=
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