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"Tour De France De Orgasmos" explores contemporary ideas of empowerment through the filter of the global organized sports mega-machine. Raising questions about exploitation, mass marketization and loss of self in terms of gender, race, and age, the project uses the language of mass media to illuminate the corporate and personal subjugation dominant in today's multi-million dollar entertainment industry, and its effects on the psyche of greater society.

Coby Kennedy (b. 1977; lives and works in New York) uses the communication tools of the advertising and entertainment industry to create paintings, videos and sculptures that hint at unspoken truths, the modern culture of veiled intent, and the questions of subjective realities. A graduate of Columbia University’s Fine Art MFA and Pratt Institute’s Industrial Design BA programs, the artist and industrial conceptual designer has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2011), Red Bull Arts Detroit (2016), and Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2018). Kennedy is the recipient of the Civil Society Institute Fellowship and One World Award, and has exhibited work domestically and internationally, in Japan, South Africa and Italy.