Basil Kincaid

b. 1986 St. Louis Missouri USA

Works in Greater Accra Ghana

Education

2010 BA Studio Art, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2023 Spirit in the Gift, Rubell Museum, Miami, FL

  • 2022 River, Frog and Crescent Moon, Venus over Manhattan, New York, NY

  • 2022 All in One Feeling, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

  • 2021 A Restful Place, Leyendecker Gallery, Tenerife, Canary Islands

  • 2019 Get It How You Live, Carl Kostyal, Mayfair London UK

  • 2019 Shamans Death, Part 2 Gallery, Oakland, CA

  • 2018 Gates, University of Missouri St Louis, St. Louis, MO

  • 2018 Interstices, Missouri Valley College, Marshal, MO

  • 2017 Portraits, Projects + Gallery, St. Louis, MO

  • 2016 Reclamation 2: Ghana: A Call Home,The Luminary, St. Louis, MO

Group Exhibitions

  • 2023 The Threads We Follow curated by Maya Brooks. North Carolina Museum of Art’s

    Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Raleigh, NC. (forthcoming)

  • 2023 Impulse of an Era curated by Ché Morales, Albertz Benda, New York, NY.

  • 2023 Hand Over Hand, Mindy Solomon Gallery. Miami, FL.

  • 2023 The New Bend curated by Legacy Russell. Hauser & Wirth. Somerset, UK

  • 2022 The New African Portraiture curated by Ekow Eshun. Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria

  • 2022 The New Bend curated by Legacy Russell. Hauser & Wirth. Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)

  • 2022 This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World. Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

  • 2022 The New Bend curated by Legacy Russell. Hauser & Wirth. New York, NY

  • 2022 Salutary Sculpture, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

  • 2021 Reclaiming Magic curated by Yinka Shonibare. Royal Academy. London, UK

  • 2021 Beyond Binaries: Basil Kincaid, Sahana Ramakrishnan and Milford Graves, Fridman Gallery. Beacon, NY

  • 2021 Realms of Rege curated by Chanelle Lacy. Kavi Gupta Gallery. Chicago, NY

  • 2021 Alternating Currents curated by Niama Sandy. Fridman Gallery. New York, NY

  • 2021 NOIR. Illinois State Museum. Springfield, IL

  • 2021 Sites of Memory, UTA Artists Space curated by Essence Harden, Beverly Hills, CA

  • 2020 Bodies in Motion - Traveling Bodies, Stems Gallery, Brussels Belgium

  • 2020 PERSONAL MYTHOLOGIES, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris France

  • 2020 PARALLELS AND PERIPHERIES: Fractals and Fragments, Galleria Anna Marra, Rome, Italy

  • 2020 Ambra Nera, Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece

  • 2019 America Weaves, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL

  • 2019 Embodied, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

  • 2019 Spring Selections, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  • 2019 Stockholm Sessions, Carl Kostyal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden

  • 2019 Malmo Sessions, Carl Kostyal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden

  • 2019 In The Fold, RULE Gallery, Denver, CO

  • 2019 I Am My Story, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Maimi, FL

  • 2019 American African American, Phillips, curated by Arnold Lehman, New York, NY

  • 2019 Tapestry Art, Blurider Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2018 Interwoven, Kravets Wheby Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2018 On the Road, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, curated by Larry Ossei Mensah, New York, NY

  • 2018 Parallel Lives, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago IL

  • 2018 Nomadic Murals, Contemporary Tapestries and Carpets, Boca Raton Museum, BocaRaton, FL

  • 2018 Refraction: New Photography of the African Diaspora, Steven Kasher Gallery, NewYork, NY

  • 2018 Too Black for America, Too American For Africa, Magnify Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO

  • 2017 Mutinerie 3D, Le Mat galerie, Montpellier, France

  • 2017 Taking it To The Streets, Krantzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO

  • 2017 St. Louis University, McNamee Gallery, Invitational Exhibition, St. Louis, MO

  • 2017 Taking It To The Streets,UMSL University, 210 Gallery, St. Louis, MO

  • 2015 Grammy Museum, Blackout Festival, Installation, Los Angeles, CA

  • 2015 Voyage of [Re]Discovery, Nabuke Foundation, Group Exhibition, Accra, Ghana

  • 2015 RESPOND,Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

Fairs

  • 2020 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Galleria Anna Marra & Mindy Solomon Gallery,London UK

  • 2019 Untitled San Francisco, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  • 2019 Art Basel, Kavi Gupta, Miami FL

  • 2018 Overview Is A Place, SPRING/BREAK, Projects Plus Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2017 Art Basel, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL

Performance

  • 2019 The Release, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Performance, St. Louis, MO

  • 2017 The Summoning, Performance, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Projects+& Spacebuster by Raumlaborberlin, St. Louis, MO

Residencies & Awards

  • 2023 Rubell Museum Artist in Residence

  • 2021 United States Artist Fellowship

  • 2020 Regional Arts Commission Fellowship

  • 2019 Carl Kostyal Draw Jam, Puglia, Italy

  • 2017 The Fountainhead Residency, Artist in Residence, Miami, FL

  • 2016 Babson College, Speaker, Re-Imagining Inclusion Conference, Wellesley, MA

  • 2016 Arts Connect International, Artist Consultant, Boston, MA

  • 2015 Harvard University, Art for Cultural Inclusion Symposium, Boston, MA

  • 2014-15 Arts Connect International, Artist-In-Residence, Reclamation Ghana

  • 2007 Anderson Ranch Arts Center Scholarship, Aspen, CO

Talks & Workshops

  • 2020 Kitchen Table Art School with Art Noir co, moderated by curator Larry Ossei-Mensah

  • 2020 ADAMA Arts Salon with African Diasporic Art Museum of Atlanta. Atlanta, GA

  • 2019 Pulitzer Foundation: Stitch and Gather Sewing Workshop

  • 2018 Missouri Valley CollegeArtist Talk, Marshall, MO

  • 2018 UMSL Artist Talk, St. Louis, MO

  • 2017 Print by Print Group, Fiber Talks Panelist & Workshop Facilitator, New York, NY

  • 2017 St. Louis Art Museum, Panelist, “Hip-hop & Fashion: From the Streets to the Runway”, St. Louis, MO

  • 2017 Colorado College, Artist Talk and Senior Critique Series, Colorado Springs, CO

  • 2017 St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Juror, Displacement & Migration, St. Louis, MO

  • 2013 BlankSpace, Planned, Funded and Implemented “Cherokee Street Reach”Free Youth Art Camp, St. Louis, MO