TITUS KAPHAR
(b. 1976, Kalamazoo, MI)
Titus Kaphar makes paintings, sculptures, and installations that examine the history of representation. He transforms styles and mediums with formal innovations to emphasize the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas, panel, and materials themselves. Kaphar lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut, where he established the arts residency program NXTHVN in 2017. He received an MFA from Yale University and was the distinguished recipient of a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship, as well as numerous other prizes and awards.
Titus Kaphar: The Jerome Project is on view in the Fenway Gallery from October 13, 2022, to January 16, 2023.
I began to paint those mug shots as these [small devotional-size] religious style
paintings with gilded backgrounds. I then submerged those paintings into tanks of
tar based on the amount of time that these folks had spent incarcerated.
Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art is supported by the Abrams Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Wagner Foundation, the Robert Lehman Foundation, Fredericka and Howard Stevenson, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Additional support is provided by an endowment grant from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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The Museum receives operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.