Kevin Claiborne (b. 1989, Washington, D.C.)

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 has described his practice as a way to use “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.” Claiborne graduated with a BS in Mathematics from the historically Black college North Carolina Central University in 2012, and received an M.S. in Higher Education from Syracuse University in 2016. He also holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.

Claiborne lives and works in Harlem, New York.

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