（USA, b.1986)
Basil Kincaid is a St. Louis-based multi-disciplinary artist. His work can be seen in conceptual terms as an examination of two big ideas: reclamation and heritage. Reclamation is partly about acknowledging what has been cast off by people as part of the ordinary processes of living everyday life, and partly about discovering new value in what has out-lived its previous uses. By finding new meanings and purposes for the cast off materials of society, Kincaid engages in the creation of new forms and experiences.
In a concrete sense, Kincaid achieves this ethereal goal by amassing donated and found materials, which he then uses as mediums to be incorporated into his assemblages, collages, and quilts. The undervalued remains of history literally find new life as his sculptures, paintings, wearable artworks, quilts, and tapestries. The quest to understand his own heritage is partly what inspired Kincaid to adopt quilting as an aesthetic technique. For more than 100 years his family members have quilted, and Kincaid has even stated that his grandmother, who was an avid quilter, visits him in his dreams. He considers the quilts he makes to be a sort of metaphysical collaboration with his ancestors, which allows him to participate in a legacy that extends far backwards and infinitely forward in time.
Education
2010 BA | Concentration: Studio Art | Colorado College | Colorado Springs C
RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS, AND OTHER RELATED WORK
2018 Missouri Valley College Artist Talk, Marshall MO
2018 UMSL Artist Talk, St. Louis MO
2017 Print by Print Group, Fiber Talks Panelist & Workshop Facilitator, New York NY
2017 Harvard Westlake School, Guest Speaker, Beverly Hills CA
2017 The Fountainhead Residency, Artist in Residence, Miami FL
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
2016 Harvard Graduate School of Education, Guest Speaker, Arts In Education Program, Boston MA
2016 Commissioned Muralist for XQ Super School Project –St. Louis, MO
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 – 2015 Arts Connect International –Artist-In-Residence – Reclamation Ghana | $30,000 Grant
2013 BlankSpace, Planned, Funded and Implemented “Cherokee Street Reach” Free Youth Art Camp – St. Louis, MO
2013 – 2014 Kipp Believe College Prep, Middle School Art Teacher
2012 Artist in Residence: BlankSpace Gallery & Community Center, Open-Studio Residency – Saint Louis, MO
Solo Exhibitions
2018 UMSL, “Gates”, Solo Exhibition, St. Louis MO
2018 Missouri Valley College, “Interstices”, Solo Exhibition, Marshal MO
2017 Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Projects Plus & Spacebuster by Raumlaborberlin, “The Summoning”, Performance, St. Louis
2017 Harvard Westlake Gallery, “Special Exhibition of Recent Work”, Solo Exhibition, Beverly Hills CA
2017 Projects + Gallery, “Portraits”, Solo Exhibition, St. Louis MO
2017 Regional Arts Commission, “Beyond This Threshold”, Installation & Performance, Collaboration, St. Louis MO
2016 Hawn Gallery, SMU Hamon Arts Library, “Roots & Routes”, Installation & Performance, Dallas TX
2016 Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, “Inward Quest” Installation & Performance, St. Louis MO
2016 Cortex, Murmuration Festival, “Portal”, Installation & Performance, St. Louis MO
2016 Nebula Coworking, “The Vessel”, Installation & Performance Art Exhibition, St. Louis MO
2016 Moy Fincher Chipps, “Love Art”, Solo Exhibition, Los Angeles CA
2016 The Luminary, “Reclamation 2: Ghana: A Call Home” Solo Exhibition, St. Louis MO
2015 Bernstein Wealth Management, “Reclamation Ghana”, Boston MA
2014 The Box Gallery, “NewCollage: Behind the Veil”, Solo Exhibition, Chicago IL
2013 2720 Cherokee St Gallery,“Praxis:Freedom” Solo Exhibition,-St. Louis MO
2013 Portfolio Gallery and Education Center, “Reclamation” Art Show and Album Debut, St. Louis, MO
2012 BlankSpace, “Double Consciousness”, Solo Exhibition, St. Louis, MO,
Group Exhibitions
2018 Kavi Gupta Gallery, “Parallel Lives”, Chicago IL
2018 Boca Raton Museum, “Nomadic Murals” Contemporary Tapestries and Carpets, Boca Raton FL
2018 Steven Kasher Gallery, “Refraction: New Photography of the African Diaspora” New York N
2018 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, with Projects Plus Gallery, “Overview Is A Place” , New York NY
2018 St. Louis Artists Guild, “All Colors” , St. Louis MO
2018 Intersect Art Gallery, “Ebb & Flow Artists of St. Louis”, St. Louis MO
2018 TechArtista, “In Living Color”, St. Louis MO
2018 Magnify Art Gallery, “Too Black for America, Too American For Africa”, St. Louis MO
2017 Le Mat galerie, “Mutinerie 3D” , Montpellier, France
2017 Art Basel, Prizm Art Fair, Miami FL
2017 Larson Gallery, Columbia College, “Show-Me States: A Survey of Missouri Photography”, Colombia MO
2017 Krantzberg Arts Center, “Taking it To The Streets”, St. Louis MO
2017 St. Louis University, McNamee Gallery, Invitational Exhibition, St. Louis MO
2017 UMSL University, 210 Gallery, Taking It To The Streets, Juried Group Show, St. Louis MO
2016 Lesley University, “Justice In Process” + Symposium, Boston MA
2016 BlankSpace, Clothesline “Non-Fiction”, St. Louis MO
2016 Touhill Performing Arts Center- Spring to Dance, “Tributary”, Costume Design and Construction, St. Louis MO
2015 Grammy Museum, Blackout Festival, Installation, Los Angeles CA
2015 Boston City Hall, “Emerge”, Installation, Boston MA
2015 Lawn On D, BEANfest, Art and Music Festival, Installation, Boston MA
2015 Nabuke Foundation, “Voyage of [Re]Discovery”, Group Exhibition, Accra Ghana
2015 Smack Mellon, “RESPOND”, Juried Group Show, Brooklyn NY
2014 VSA Massachusetts at the Open Door Gallery, HandmadeHoliday Show , Group Show, Boston MA
2014 District Hall, City Awake Social Impact Festival- Art Inclusion Salon, Group Show, Boson MA
2012 3407 California Avenue Gallery, Reclamation, St. Louis, MO
COLLECTIONS
2018 JP Morgan Chase Art Collection | 3 works
AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2014-15 Arts Connect International Artist In Residence Grant $30,000
2013 Gramaphone, Featured Speaker at Tedx Gateway Arch Event-Saint Louis, MO
2012 Roosevelt High School, Founded year long after-school art and fitness program for 20 under-served high school students-Saint Louis, MO
2007 Anderson Ranch Arts Center Scholarship – Aspen, CO
