JMr. Kearney creates welded steel sculptures from automobile bumpers (primarily chrome which is no longer used on automobile bumpers) and also works in bronze.

His vast body of work consists of large and small scale sculptures that are primarily animal and figurative forms.

Kearney’s sculptures can be found in major museums, private collections and public parks throughout USA, including outdoor sculptures at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, the Detroit Children's Museum, the Ulrich Museum in Wichita, the Standard Oil Building in Chicago, the Illinois State Capitol Visitors Center in Springfield, IL; and at the Mitchell Museum in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.

Kearney studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and at the Universita per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy. Awards and honors include: Fulbright Award to Italy in 1963-64; Italian Government Grant in 1963-64; Visiting Artist American Academy in Rome, 1985, 1992, and 1998; Wallace Truman Prize, National Academy of Design in 1953 and others.

Numerous One Man exhibitions since 1951 include: New York City at A.C.A. Gallery, 1964 to 1979; Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1992 to 1997; and in Rome, Venice, Chicago, Detroit, Wichita, Wellfleet, and others with group exhibitions in Rome, N.Y., Santo Domingo, Niamey, Nigeria, Indianapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Art Institute of Chicago, Art Chicago, Taipei, Sarasota and others.

Mr. Kearney is currently creating his final piece in the Wizard of Oz collection - a life-size sculpture of Dorothy and Toto. In previous years, he was commissioned by the City of Chicago to create the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow – all of which can be found in Oz Park, a free public park located in the Lincoln Park neigborhood of Chicago, IL.    Dorothy and Toto will join them soon.