About the Artist

Titus Kaphar is an American artist and activist who lives and works in New Haven Connecticut. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, eventually moving to Connecticut where he received his MFA from Yale University in 2006. Kaphar has been awarded multiple grants for his work including the MacArthur Fellowship (2018) and the Robert. R. Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Grant (2016). His work “Analogous Colors” was featured on the cover of TIME during the summer of 2020. Kaphar’s oil paintings, sculptures, and experimental films aid to examine the history of representation through the physical manipulation of subject and material.