KEVIN CLAIBORNE
lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
2021 MFA Visual Arts, School of Visual Arts, Columbia University
2016 MS Higher Education Administration, Syracuse University
2012 BS Mathematics, North Carolina Central University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Landscape of Lost Histories, Public Service, Stockholm, Sweden
Family Business, Sean Horton (Presents), New York, NY
2022
understand me, OSMOS, New York, NY
Fragmentation, Sobering Galerie, Paris, France
Artist in Residence Exhibition, OSMOS Station, Stamford, NY
2021
Before I Died I Was Invisible, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2020
BLACK ENOUGH, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Double Consciousness 2, UCSB Multicultural Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2018
A Prescription for Double Consciousness, SB CAST, Santa Barbara, CA
Walking on Water While Black, Sirena Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Place - World, Sean Horton, New York, NY
Crusading the Specter, Yossi Milo, New York, NY
DARK MATTER, Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, NY
2022
TORRENTS: Roots of a Future, Cultural DC, Washington, D.C.
SAVIGNANO IMMAGINI, SI Fest, Forlì-Cesena, Italy
Arrangements in Black, Phillips, New York, NY
To Knead a Knot, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
PRESENT POWER/ FUTURE HOPES, The Clemente Center, New York, NY
Tempus Fugit, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY
back & write, OSMOS Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Hereditary, Swivel Gallery, New York, NY
Vocoder, The Macy Art Gallery, New York, NY
Time Won’t Tell, Project Gallery V, New York, NY
The Meeting Point, Regular Normal Gallery, New York, NY
Mrs. Robinson, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
Varsity Blues, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY
MONOCHROME, Bull Farm 1856, Rock Tavern, NY
Let Freedom Ring Vol. 2, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York, NY
2020
Nature Technology II, The Canvas, New York, NY
BLACKNESS IS, Photoville, New York, NY
Once More, With Feeling, UCLA New Wight Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
Ways & Means, Skelf, United Kingdom
In.Oscillations, SITE.Projects London
How We Hear Now: Sound, Language, & Environment, California College of the Arts Architectural Ecologies Lab, San Francisco, CA
The Brightest Midnight, The Pandemic Archive, New York, NY
BABY MOMA, At Peace Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Sisyphean Justice, The Arts Fund, Santa Barbara, CA
TEACHING & TALKS
2022
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Darkroom Photography I, Columbia University
2021
Artist Talk, The Print Center
2020
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of New Mexico
Visiting Artist Lecture, The Cooper Union
Visiting Artist Lecture, Columbia University
Teaching Assistant, Photo I, Columbia University
2019
Teaching Assistant, Photo II, Columbia University
2018
Artist Talk, University of California Santa Barbara
HONORS & AWARDS
2021
Finalist, Not a Monolith, ArtBridge & Facebook Open Arts
2020
Finalist, Aperture Foundation & Baxter St. Camera Club Next Step Award
Grant Recipient, ArtNoir Jar of Love Grant
Finalist, Photolucida Critical Mass Awards
Photography Fellowship, Columbia University School of the Arts
2019-2021
Visual Arts Scholarship, Columbia University School of the Arts
COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art Special Collections, New York, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA
PRESS & FEATURES
2022
Dozer, Ayanna. “The New Generation of Black Artists Boldly Redefining Conceptual Art” Artsy.com (September 1, 2022)
Rabinowitz, Cay-Sophie. “Kevin Claiborne” OSMOS Magazine Issue 22 (April 2022)
ArtNoir. “Virtual Visits” ArtNoir (April 14, 2022)
2021
Carroll, Angela N. “GLYPHS: The Image + Text Issue” foam Magazine #60 (November, 2021)
Glasgow, Abigail. “ArtNoir Reclaims the Black History of New York’s Meatpacking District” Cultured Mag (August 27th, 2021)
Espinoza, Joshua. “ARTNOIR and the Meatpacking District to Launch Black Cultural Festival” Complex Mag (August 11th, 2021)
Cover Art and Interior Art. “Reckoning with a Reckoning: One Year Since George Floyd’s Murder” New York Magazine (May 24, 2021)
2020
Cascone, Sarah. “Editors’ Picks: 16 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week” Artnet News (September 21, 2020)
Mitter, Siddhartha. “Photoville Adds New Venues, Vistas and Vision” The New York Times (September 21, 2020)
Gillion, Daniel Q. “The Myth of the Silent Majority” The Atlantic (September, 2020)
Hutton, Belle. “A Unique and Powerful Document of the Global Black Lives Matter Protests” AnOther Magazine (August 26, 2020)
Sharif, Najma. “5 Photographers On Documenting Protests Through Their Own Lens” Atmos (July 9, 2020)
Claiborne, Kevin. “Art and Activism: Documenting Protests Against Police Brutality and Anti-Blackness” Ilford Photo (June 23, 2020)
Artnet News. “8 Curators, Artists, and Art Historians on the Most Consequential News Images Since the Death of George Floyd” Artnet News (June 19, 2020)
Tarmy, James. “’Are Your Lungs Worth More?’ An Artist Captures the Protests in New York” Bloomberg Businessweek (June 9, 2020)
Worthless Studios. “Free Film: 2020 Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division” (June, 2020)
Deng, Audrey. Interview with Kevin Claiborne. “Conversations with Artists in Art Getting Art: Kevin Claiborne II” Columbia University School of the Arts (January 22, 2020)
2019
Donelan, Charles. “’Sisyphean Justice’ at the Arts Fund” Santa Barbara Independent (February 12, 2019)