Inflatabill

Bill Kennedy, known as Inflatabill, is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist and designer specializing in large-scale inflatable sculptures and luminaries for stage design, special events, and public art. An FAA-certified Senior Parachute Rigger since the early 1990s, Kennedy applies his expertise in sewing ripstop nylon and three-dimensional airfoil design to create stunning cold-air inflatable art installations. Introduced to inflatable art in 2001 by San Francisco art icons tevenRateven Ra
tevenRapa and Joegh Bullock, he has since transformed nightclubs, concert venues, convention centers, and outdoor festivals into exotic wonderlands.

Kennedy’s work includes 3D illuminated lanterns featured at Cleveland Museum of Art’s Solstice event and the elaborate Sepia Lux illuminated cuttlefish art car for Burning Man. As a production designer, he creates 3D venue models and animated fly-throughs to coordinate complex installations involving staging, lighting, sound, and inflatables. His specialty lies in the installation process itself—transforming ordinary spaces through careful planning, ingenuity, and his signature style of vibrant, glowing inflatable art.