Born in San Francisco, Eleanor Kent has lived there most of her life, making art.  She started painting and drawing seriously in the mid-1950s after getting a BA in English at Harvard University. Kent then returned to the Bay Area to enter the San Francisco Art Institute, and later earned her Master’s degree in English from San Francisco State University.  Kent studied and painted in the Bay Area Figurative style under Ralph Ducasse, Elmer Bischoff, Nathan Oliveira, Frank Lobdell and Bruce McGaw, using a diverse array of mediums to depict the luxury of the California lifestyle.

Working with Bay Area Figurative masters helped Kent form a solid art foundation, which she used to explore other mediums and forms of expression in the following decades. In the 1970s, she painted on fabric and t-shirts and used color copiers to create prints.  Throughout the 1980s, Kent explored developing computer technology and graphic systems as art tools and helped found Ylem, a tech art group. During the ‘90s, Kent started knitting the mathematical images she saw on computers, and today crochets body jewelry using electro-luminescent wire, which surrounds the wearer with light. She continues to work for the creative use of technology and a sharing of information as a way of peacefully exploring of our existence.