Kevin Cyr was born in 1976 in Edmundston, New Brunswick, Cananda and grew up in Madawaska, Maine. In 2000, he received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Cyr is currently based in Portland, ME. His paintings, drawings, sculpture and installations have been exhibited by galleries and museums nationally and internationally. His work has been widely collected and is in the permanent collections of La Fondation d’Oxylane in Lille, France and the West Collection in Oaks, Pennsylvania.