Kevin Bell's work is informed by growing up in the western United States, including ten years in Alaska and 15 years in Montana. He earned a BA in history from Bowdoin College, and completed an MFA in painting from University of Oregon.

His artwork is exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent shows in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, New York City, Vancouver B.C., Houston, San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago. His work was featured twice in the publication New American Paintings, selected for the Dublin Biennial, and showcased at art fairs such as SCOPE and Pulse NY. He curated Seeing it Again: Nature Revisited at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass, Colorado, and was awarded residencies and fellowships in China, Ireland, Chicago and Key West, Florida. 

His work has received awards from notable curators such as Anne Strauss, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Lucinda Barnes, UC Berkeley Art Museum. Writes Andrea Karnes, Curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, “Bell’s paintings update the traditional subject of landscape, so that it is culturally relevant to this moment in our collective and individual experience.”  

Kevin is a Professor at the University of Montana--Missoula, where he lives with his family.