Beau Kenyon

Beau Kenyon is a Paris-based composer, cultural strategist, and collaborative artist. His 2022 contemporary ballet, Of Gravity and Light, commissioned and premiered by Ballet Des Moines, translates the orbital mechanics of the Sun-Earth-Moon system into 50 minutes of music, movement, and large-scale film projection. Built on the scientific principles of astrophysics, the work uses the solar system as a vocabulary for something more personal: an investigation of distance that is also devotion. Grief and joy, held together. Developed in partnership with NASA, PBS, and GBH, the concert score recording is available on all streaming platforms.

Kenyon’s portfolio spans permanent public installation, augmented reality, and site-specific performance. River Constellation (2019), a permanent outdoor sound sculpture, gathers the sounds of the natural landscape into a continuous two-hour composition. Reach You (2022), an augmented reality artwork, created with Jonah and Katrina Goldsaito, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. His sound installation for Accumulation of Dreams (2024) was on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. His work pairs with artist Yu-Wen Wu’s video work to explore themes of immigration, displacement, longing, and belonging. Two archival albums documenting his sound installation work are forthcoming in 2026.

In 2017, Kenyon founded Oakley Collective for Arts + Research — a nonprofit consulting firm now operating across the U.S. and Europe. Oakley Collective is not a separate practice. It is the same curiosity, the same systems thinking, the same belief that healthy collaborative structures unlock what individual effort cannot. Over the past decade, Kenyon has partnered with institutions including the Boston Public Library, Ballet Des Moines, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MIT, NASA, PBS, Iowa State University, and the Boston Public Art Triennial. His consistent function and goal is to help organizations grow, connect, and build the kind of capacity that outlasts any single engagement or any individual leader.

He holds degrees from Berklee College of Music (B.M.) and Tufts University (M.A.). He currently serves on the board of the American Composers Forum and recently served on the board for Boston Art Review (2021–2026, co-chair) and the WGBH Community Advisory Board (2016–2019, co-chair).