Jeffrey Kent is an American multidisciplinary artist whose life's work has been a conduit for self-healing and communal wellness.

His artwork is conceptual, with the most defining elements riffing from his reflections on America’s racialized history and his place in it. Rooted in his process-based practice, Kent symbolically aligns his mediums with the subjects he is visually interrogating so that the materials, colors, and textures mirror the temperament of historical meta-narratives and his-story.

In addition to his art practice, Kent founded several public art hubs. These hubs offer space for artists to produce large-scale art projects and receive mentoring and apprenticeships through budding collaborations with accomplished and rising artists. At Sub-Basement Artist Studios, Kent created the largest (13,000 square feet) art space in Baltimore (2004–2014), which served as the launch pad for artists like Amy Sherald, who became world-renowned for her 2018 portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama.

Kent was the co-owner/founder of art and decor retail space Unexpected Art Space (2013-2016), The 120 Studios (2016 - present), artist studios where Jerrell Gibbs had hist first studio, now slated to become two live-work artist studios and co-founder of Connect+Collect (2018 - present), an initiative designed to create awareness and momentum among new and experienced collectors, provide professional development to Baltimore-based artists, and promote a culture of collecting in Baltimore. He is also the founder and brainchild of Accomplished Art Apprentices. This initiative partners with esteemed museums to create hands-on learning opportunities for young people from marginalized communities in art handling, installation, and historic preservation. With his latest communal venture, BLIFTD STVDIOS PROJECT, Kent is building on that experience and his decades of work to create a new focal point for artistic work and connection in Baltimore’s southeast waterfront neighborhood, Canton.

Kent is an adjunct Professor of fine art at Maryland Institute College of Art (2021- present). His artwork resides in the public collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C, Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C, University of Colorado, Aurora, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD, FTI Consulting Inc., Washington D.C, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Baltimore, MD, and Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Baltimore, MD, among others.