 Kearney was part of the innovative art group 'explosure' from 1995 to 1998; he was co-director of the artist run House Gallery from 2000 to 2006; and was director of Camberwell Arts in 2002.In 2001, he curated Sir Terry Frost's only solo show in Camberwell where Frost originally studied art after the Second World War.From 2005 to 2007, Kearny was gallery director and curator of TC/G Nordica, a large art gallery in Kunming, Yunnan, China.