Kahlil Robert Irving
Streets:Chains:Cocktails, 2017. Panorama installation view, Wallpaper, ceramic, Variable Dimensions
Seven Pack – Memorial edition, August 2014 (RIP), 2017. Glazed and unglazed porcelain and stoneware, blue slip, gravel, glass, black - blue – gold -silver luster, personally constructed decals, 15 x 14 x 12 inches
BIOGRAPHY
Born: San Diego, California, 1992
Resides: St. Louis, Missouri, and Brooklyn, New York
Education: Washington University in St. Louis (M.F.A., 2017); Kansas City Art Institute (B.F.A., 2015)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 “At Dusk,” Great Rivers Biennial, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri.
“Mixed Messages (Streets & Screens) AOL + Lottery,” Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco.
“Ground Water from Screen Falls [(Collaged media) + Midwest] STREET,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.
2019 “Black ICE,” Callicoon Fine Arts, New York.
2018 “Street Matter – Decay & Forever / Golden Age,” Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
2017 “Streets:Chains:Cocktails,” Callicoon Fine Arts, New York.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Formed and Fired,” Anderson Collection at Stanford University, San Francisco.
“Total Collapse: Clay in the Contemporary Past,” Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe.
2019 “Every Step in the Right Direction,” Singapore Biennial.
“Rosebud,” Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles.
2018 “Seeing Believing Having Holding,” I8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland.
“Former Glory,” Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence.
2017 “Ephemera,” Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Radley, Jack. “In the Studio with Kahlil Robert Irving,” Cultured (January 2).
2019 Vincler, John. “Artist Kahlil Robert Irving Sees the Collapse of American Industry in Clay,” Frieze (September 27).
2018 Wong, Mimi. “Street Matter,” The Offing (November 30).
2017 Rina, Amelia. “History and Its Marks: Kahlil Robert Irving’s Streets:Chains:Cocktails,” Bomb (October 18).