Born in Sacramento, California in 1968, Jennifer McCoy received a BA in Theater Arts with a concentration in Film Studies from Cornell University in 1990. Born in Seattle, Washington in 1967, Kevin McCoy earned a BA in Philosophy from Whitman College in 1989. Both artists received an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1994. Since they initiated their artistic partnership in 1990, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy have produced multimedia works combining film, animation, and kinetic sculpture that examine the relationship between technology and the construction of narratives.

Their projects have been exhibited internationally in venues including The Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; The New Museum; and the Center for Media and Art (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany.