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Titus Kaphar is an American contemporary painter whose work reconfigures and regenerates art history to include African-American subjects. His paintings are held in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, New Britain Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, Mississippi Museum of Art, Virginia ...
Apr 12, 2019 · In a struggling neighborhood with a vibrant history, Titus Kaphar found a home for himself. Now he’s creating a center there to nurture emerging artists.
May 4, 2020 · Kaphar depicts George Washington on horseback—sword drawn, projecting authority—but shrouds the founding father with strips of canvas, each bearing the name of an enslaved person on Washington’s plantation, from a list of over three hundred that the artist discovered on a Mount Vernon farm ledger.
His works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions across the United States, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA PS1 in New York, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC; and feature in prestigious public collections, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).
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Titus Kaphar revises canonized approaches to artmaking to unearth understudied and hidden histories. He spent his youth living with a variety of family members in his hometown of Kalamzaoo, Michigan, and in California.
Dec 2, 2015 · Titus Kaphar’s work deconstructs history and memory simultaneously, twisting familiar images to uncover those who’ve suffered under the prejudices institutionalized by the “heroes” we revere. Through The Vesper Project in 2012, he explored confabulation sculpturally, constructing chaotic scenes of a fictitious and yet misremembered 19th ...
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Titus Kaphar (b. 1976, Kalamazoo, Michigan) lives and works in New Haven, CT. Kaphar received an MFA from the Yale School of Art and is a distinguished recipient of numerous prizes and awards including a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2018 Art for Justice Fund grant, a 2016 Robert R. Rauschenberg Artist as Activist grant, and a 2015 Creative ...
