Titus Kaphar

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1976, Kalamazoo, MI
Lives: New Haven, CT�7

Education
2006 MFA, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT
2001 BFA, San Jose State University, San Jose, CAd.ms-e

Solo Exhibitions
2009 �Reconstruction� Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
�History in the Making� Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2008 �Painting Undone� Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2005 �New Revolution� Yale Art Gallery, Trumbull Gallery, New Haven, CT
2004 �Erace-ing Art History� Provisions Library, Washington, D.C.
�Visual Quotations� Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, CA
2000 �The House That Crack Built� San Jose State University Gallery 2, San Jose, CA

Group Exhibitions
2010 �Stitches� Curated by Sinead Finnerty-Pyne, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
�The Gleaners: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Sarah and Jim Taylor� Victoria H.
Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO
2009 �Your Gold Teeth II� Curated by Todd Levin, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2008 �Macrocosm� Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
�Cancelled, Erased & Removed� Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Museum, Kalamazoo, MI
2007 �Blur� Arndt Partner Gallery, Berlin, Germany
�Sweet Sweetback�s Baadasssss Song� Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
�Midnight�s Daydream� The Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, NY
�My Love is a 187� The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
�Salon Nouveau� Galerie Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna, Austria
2006 �Lag-Time Line-up� Mumbo Jumbo Gallery, New York, NY
�Materiality� Kravets Wheby Gallery, New York, NY
�School Days� Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2004 �Edges� Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA
2003 Stop Art Gallery, San Jose, CA
2002 �Studio 110, Re-Presenting Ourselves� San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Mountain View City Hall, Mountain View, CA
2001 �The African-American Spirit in Contemporary Art� Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose, CA
San Jose State University, Africana Center, San Jose, CA
2000 �Black Artists: Creations� San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society, Fort
Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, CA
��of Subversion and Dominance� San Jose Art League, San Jose, CA

Bibliography
2010 Mizota, Sharon. �Art Review: �Stitches� at Armory Center for the Arts.� Los Angeles Times
May 21, 2010
Cheng, Scarlet. �Unconventional �Stitches� at the Armory Center for the Arts.� Los Angeles
Times May 16, 2010
2009 �Fall Preview.� Art Ltd: Fall Preview Issue September/October 2009: 53
Palazzoli, Daniela. �Post-Black Wo.Men: Return to History.� Inside-21 Autumn 2009: 96-100
Douglas, Sarah. �Summer in the City: Group Shows.� Art Info July 24, 2009
Golden, Thelma. �Elsewhere: Art Beyond the Studio Museum.� The Studio Museum in Harlem
Magazine Spring 2009: 18-19
Carlson, Michele. �History in the Making: Titus Kaphar Cuts up to Rebuild.� Art in America
May 20, 2009
Psyllos, Steven. �Creative Time.� GIANT May 2009: 32
Miller, Brian. �Titus Kaphar.� Seattle Weekly April 22, 2009
�Seattle Museum Honors Titus Kaphar.� Huliq News April 21, 2009
Hamilton, Kerry Campbell. �Titus Kaphar: A Fresh View of American History.� Seattle Art
Museum Examiner April 15, 2009
Graves, Jen. �Titus Kaphar, Pushing His Own Damn Boat.� The Stranger Slog April 13, 2009
�Seattle Art Museum Honors Titus Kaphar, Inaugural Fellowship Recipient, with a solo
exhibition.� Artdaily.org April 12, 2009
Shiloh, Ramon. �Seattle Art Museum Honors Titus Kaphar.� Colors March 30, 2009
2008 Harvey, Phillip. �The View From Now Trends In the Idiom of Young African American Artists.�
The International Review of African American Art Vol. 22, No 2: 2-14
Titus Kaphar: Painting Undone. Savannah: SCAD Exhibitions, 2008
Wall, Katie. �Kaphar Challenges Traditional Perspectives.� The SCAD Chronicle March 7,
2008
2007 Kim, Christine Y. �Artists-in-Residence 2006-07.� 2007: 2-6, 15
Schwendener, Martha. �Three Contemporaries, Each With a Different Way to View the Past.�
The New York Times August 11, 2007
2005 �The Art of Cut-and-Paste.� The Yale Bulletin & Calendar December 16, 2005
2004 �From the Margins of Art History, a Painter�s Minority Report.� Washington Post April 11, 2004
KPFA Radio Interview. Berkeley and Washington, D.C., February/April 2004
�Erace-ing Art History.� Provisions Library Spring 2004
2003 �Artist Repaints History�s Blackout.� San Jose Mercury News December 7, 2003

Grants/Awards
2009 Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship Recipient, Seattle Art Museum
2006 Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum In Harlem
2004 Belle Arts Foundation Grantee
2001 California Arts Council Grantee