Kevin Claiborne (b. 1989; Washington, D.C.)
“Currently, my work focuses primarily on intergenerational trauma and memory, mental health within the Black experience, and psychological burdens related to or around identity development. I am interested in using history to find new ways of looking at and understanding the present. Starting with the gaps in my own family history, and the space between ‘what I know vs. what I should know’, the missing information between where my ancestors come from and where I am today, I am digging and mining the sediment of histories, passed down, erased, and avoided.” - Kevin Claiborne
Kevin Claiborne is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist whose work examines intersections of identity, social environment, & mental health within the Black American experience. Moving between collage, silkscreen, photography, painting, and sculpture, while frequently using language as material, Claiborne is interested in finding new ways to look at history and its connection to the present.
Claiborne holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the historically Black college North Carolina Central University (2012), an M.S. in Higher Education from Syracuse University (2016), and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2021).
Claiborne lives and works in Harlem, New York.
Kevin Claiborne
just like you, 2021
archival inkjet print
20 x 30 in (50.80 x 76.20 cm)
Kevin Claiborne
YOUR LAND YOUR LIGHT, 2022
Collage
12 x 9 in (30.48 x 22.86 cm)
Kevin Claiborne
invisible poem 1, 2021
Collage
20 x 24 in (50.80 x 60.96 cm)
