Kevin
Frech

Kevin R. Frech is an internationally exhibited artist and award-winning filmmaker whose work explores the interaction and impact of people on their environment, and vice-versa.  His recent video work, “The Minimum,” which gamifies labor at the American minimum wage, won a prize at Arte Laguna 2019 in Venice Italy, and was shown at ART NOVA 100 in Beijing.  It also won second prize in the 2017 YICCA International Contest of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy.  Kevin’s video work, “TWO DEGREES (Global Warming Series)” is currently on display at the Storefront for Culture in Seattle, WA. 

Kevin’s debut feature documentary, “Not Like in the Movies,” chronicled the lives of artists living with schizophrenia in New York’s state mental institutions.  It won an Award of Merit from the Chicago International Film Festival and resides in the permanent collection of the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg, Germany, one of the premier Outsider Art museums.  With “Bowery Dish,” his next documentary, Kevin captured the rapid gentrification of one of New York’s most notorious slum streets, The Bowery. “Bowery Dish” debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival, played at the Sao Paulo Film Festival and had a two-year broadcast run on the Sundance Channel.  For his most recent documentary, Kevin spent five weeks in the African bush with anti-poaching units who are trying to halt killing of endangered wildlife.  The resulting film, “The Other Side of the Fence,” is currently out to film festivals.  Kevin gave a talk on this film at TEDx: Beacon at the JFK Library in Cambridge, MA. 

A Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Fellow, Kevin is best known in the theater for his work as the associate video director/designer for Blue Man Group, winning an EDDY Award for Theatrical Design for “Blue Man Group, Live at Luxor.”  Kevin holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and did his graduate studies in filmmaking at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.