Kevin Jerome Everson (1965, USA) was educated in fine arts at the Universities of Ohio and Akron. He is an artist and creator of several short and feature-length films about the culture of the black American working class. In 2006, Everson was named one of the 25 most important new faces in independent cinema by Filmmaker Magazine. In 2012, he received the prestigious Alpert Award for Film and Video. Several mid-career retrospectives have been dedicated to his work, including exhibitions and retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2011) and Centre Pompidou (2009), but also at film festivals such as the Vienna International Film Festival (2014) and Visions du Réel (2012). Everson is also a professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.