Brenda Kingery is a contemporary artist and champion of women’s empowerment around the world. Born in Oklahoma City, Kingery earned a bachelor’s in fine arts and history from the University of Oklahoma. She attended graduate school at Ryukyus University in Okinawa and completed a master’s in arts from the University of Oklahoma.

Brenda Kingery’s paintings have been described as Narrative Symbolism. The paintings reflect her history, experiences, and the way she sees her environment. She sees life in a series of patterns that can almost be described as visual tapestries—full of as many as twenty-five thin, overlapping layers. The goal is to create paintings full of life’s breath that are full of boundless energy, and yet exacting. She combines complementary opposites. Every culture gathers for song and dance. In that movement she tries to capture time.