WONDER Land of many men, ro-man, Black and Black, 2019. Unglazed stoneware and white clay, 6 x 55 1/4 x 55 1/4 inches (15.2 x 140.3 x 140.3 cm)
Spring streets & stars | Rose Memories & foil (To: Jack), 2019. Collograph and collaged found objects, 94 5/8 x 42 3/8 x 1/4 inches (240.3 x 107.6 x .6 cm). Printed with Bedrock Art Editions, Kansas City, MO.
White matter, white text [State of Missouri,{Jason Stockley},pgs 1,2, 4, 6, 12, 13, 14, 16], 2019. Personally constructed decal on industrial ceramic tile, 9 7/8 x 14 x 1/4 inches (25.1 x 35.6 x 1 cm)
Mix & Match (*PAST (Patterns) MeisseN \ MATTER = collage), 2018. Glazed and unglazed stoneware and porcelain, grog, green slip, found vintage decals, personally constructed decals, black luster, gold luster, opal luster, gilded pyrometric cones, cone packs, 15 x 19 x 12 inches (38.1 x 48.3 x 30.5 cm)
Rows / Columns: Daily NEWS of DAILY LAW and LIFE - (text vase), 2018. Glazed and unglazed stoneware and porcelain, opal luster, gold luster, silver luster, blue luster, found decals, personally constructed decals, 11 x 23 x 11 inches (28 x 58.4 x 28 cm)
Kahlil Robert Irving (b. 1992, San Diego, CA) is an artist currently living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art, Washington University, St. Louis (MFA, 2017); and the Kansas City Art Institute (BFA, Art History and Ceramics, 2015). In 2017, Callicoon Fine Arts mounted his first solo exhibition in New York titled Streets:Chains:Cocktails. Since then, his work has been exhibited at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles; and the RISD Museum, Rhode Island, among others. His work is in the collections of J.P Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
In 2018, Irving’s first institutional solo exhibition took place at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts, Connecticut, and was accompanied by a full-color catalogue with essays and an interview. Irving was selected to participate in the 2019 Great Rivers Biennial hosted by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, where he will have a solo exhibition in May 2020. His work is featured in Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, on view at the Whitney Museum in New York City through January 2021.
Kahlil Robert Irving's large collagraph print was recently aquired and is now in the exhibition.
Kahlil Robert Irving discusses the inspiration for his multimedia work, specifically Black culture and history. He also speaks on current projects, like his collaboration with Richard Munaba, Safetyfirst & Fantasies_BLOCKCHAIN (2020-present), and multiple exhibitions for the Contemproary Art Museum St. Louis, the Katzen Arts Center at American University, and MASS MoCA.
Kahlil Robert Irving's collograph print, Constellation #2 (Grayscale) (2017), is included in FAIR, a digital art fair coordinated by the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA). The work is availalbe for purchase through June 21, 2020.
In collaboration with Richard Munaba, Kahlil Robert Irving has created an interactive digital exhibition titled Safetyfirst&Fantasies_BLOCKCHAIN. This piece is hosted by the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University.
Kahlil Robert Irving is one of twenty contemporary artists granted $20,000 by the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
Kahlil Robert Irving is included in Formed and Fired: Contemporary American Ceramics at the Anderson Collection alongside Kathy Butterly, Simone Leigh, and Brie Ruais.
Mixed Messages (Streets & Screens) AOL + Lottery is a solo exhibition at Jenkins Johns Gallery that is accompanied by AT nightfall (2020), a commission mounted in the Minnesota Street Project's atrium. This work is a commemoration of Black people and those who have suffered violent acts and murder within oppressed communities across America.
Ground water from screen Falls [(Collaged media) + Midwest] STREET is a new commission by Kahlil Robert Irving, curated by Amara Antilla, that will be installed in the lobby of the Contemporary Arts Center. The installation opens Friday, February 21, 8–11pm.
Kahlil Robert Irving is featured in American Mythic Time with American Artist, Maria Gaspar, Jordan Weber, and Work/Play, among several other projects. The exhibition is being presented in collaboration with the civil rights law firm Arch City Defenders.
Kahlil Robert Irving's work is featured in Winter Salon II, alongside Margaret Bowland, Dominic Chambers, Dewey Crumpler, Scott Fraser, Rico Gatson, Wadsworth Jarrell, Amani Lewis, Rashaad Newsome, Enrico Riley, Ming Smith, and Cameron Welch.
A panel titled "FlashForward: Rethinking Craft" will take place with artists Daniel Bare, Armando Guadalupe Cortes, Kahlil Robert Irving, Kristen Morgin and Michael Jones McKean, moderated by curator Andres Payan Estrada. This panel is a part of the Wingate Contemporary Craft Symposium series and will discuss the themes present throughout the exhibition, Total Collapse: Clay in the Contemporary Past.
Rituals of Regard and Recollection is an exhibition of works on paper from the collection of JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey. It also includes work by Athena LaTocha, Arnold Kemp, Susan Hefuna, Naotaka Hiro, Sheree Hovsepian, Kristen Jensen, Annabel Daou, Jamal Cyrus, Willam Cordova, Lotte Gertz, Adelhyd Van Bender, Kahlil Robert Irving, Nate Young, Sarah Rapson, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Pepe Mar, Pope.L, Israel Moreno Meza, Annette Lawrence, Anonymous. The opening reception will take place on January 31, 6–9 pm, with curator remarks at 7pm.
Oh say, can you see? is a group exhibition curated by Natasha Becker for Gallery 8. The exhibition features reiminaginations of the American flag by artists Kahlil Robert Irving, Sara Rahbar, and Daapo Reo. There will be a curator-led talk with the artists on Wednesday, January 8, 5:30–7:30pm.
Kahlil Robert Irving has been awarded the William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award for his work, Compacted Grit & Glamour; Tubes, Planes, and Foil (2018). The work is now a part of the Miami University Yeck 21st Century Collection.
The Terrain Biennial 2019 will have an opening Block Party on Saturday, October 5th, 2–7pm (1150 Block of Lyman Ave, Oak Park, IL, 60304). Kahlil Robert Irving's work will be on-view at The Franklin with Alberto Aguilar and Jaclyn Jacunski. (image courtesy of Terrain Biennial 2019)
Kahlil Robert Irving is included in Total Collapse: Clay in the Contemporary Past, curated by Andres Payan-Estrada. The exhibition also includes work by Ane Fabricious Christiansen, Armando Cortez, Gala Porras, Daniel L Bare, Michael Jones McKean, Kristen Morgin, and Unknown Fields Division. The exhibition will travel to the ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, in 2020.
Jessica Baran, poet and Associate Director of Curatorial & Program Development for Barrett Barrera Projects in Saint Louis, Missouri, has composed an essay for Kahlil Robert Irving: Black ICE, a solo exhibition at the gallery (September 8–October 20, 2019). The essay is available as a newsprint publication with images or digitally. Please contact the gallery for more information.
An eye that tried so hard to see one particular thing that it ended up forgetting everything else is a group exhibition curated by Stuart Lorimer, including Richard Bosman, Steven Campbell, Emily Davidson, Elizabeth Englander, Samara Golden, Chip Hughes, Willy Le Maitre, Georgia Diva McGovern, Lo F.L. Russo, and Barbara Sullivan.
Rosebud is a group exhibition curated by Beau Rutland that includes Kahlil Robert Irving alongside Guy de Cointet, Nikita Gale, Jacqueline Humphries, Miyoko Ito, Tomashi Jackson, Ellsworth Kelly, Jon Pestoni, Howardena Pindell, and Martin Puryear.
The White Columns 2019 Benefit Auction will be held on Wednesday, May 29 at the gallery (91 Horatio Street). The event begins with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at 6:30 p.m. This will then be followed by the live auction of selected lots, which will begin promptly at 8pm. The silent auction featuring works by more than 80 artists will close in stages shortly after the live auction.
Counterpublic is an expansive triennial public art platform scaled to a neighborhood, a community-oriented revision of the triennial form that builds bottom-up from the complexities, conflicts, energy, and opportunities within a single place to imagine new ways of living and working together.
Kilns of Alfred: Transactions with Fire features work by Kahlil Robert Irving in addition to work from staff of Alfred University's Ceramic Art Division, and the visiting artist and MFA collections of the Museum.
Veiled is a group exhibition curated by Kelcy Chase Folsom, including Kahlil Robert Irving alongside Russell Biles, Quinn A. Hunter, Andres Monzon, Elizabeth King, Nick Lenker, Ashley Lyon, Jordan McDonald, Vinny Castro, Joanna Pike.
A Periodic Table: Imagined Spaces is a group exhibition that includes work by Kahlil Robert Irving.
Opening: Wednesday, September 26, 4:30–6pm
In Conversation: Kahlil Robert Irving and Anthony Hatch, Associate Professor of Science in Society, African American Studies, and Sociology, 5pm
Kahlil Robert Irving will exhibit a recent body of work with his first solo exhibition in New England, including several pieces commissioned by the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan. Working across a variety of material production methods, Irving examines the evolving relationship between symbols and power by bringing attention to the oppressive legacies of colonialism present in contemporary culture. His practice purposely challenges constructs around decorative arts, monuments, and the history of how race has been reinforced in America. Co-sponsored by the Center for African American Studies.
The KCAI Alumni Biennial Exhibition also includes China Marks and Melissa Vogley Woods alongside Kahlil Robert Irving.
Seeing Believing Having Holding: A Late Summer Show of Five American Artists, an exhibition curated by Dan Byers, includes work by Kahlil Robert Irving in addition to Kelly Akashi, Michelle Lopez, B. Ingrid Olson, and Daniel Rios Rodriguez.
Kahlil Robert Irving is participating in Former Glory, an exhibition that questions our emotional connections to the flag and explores its presence in domestic and international communities.
Block Party is a group exhibition curated by Tess Schwab, also including Lizania Cruz, Kenturah Davis, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Alex Jackson, Devin N. Morris, Kenny Rivero, Shikeith and Vaughn Spann.
In accordance with the Creative Stimulus Award, Kahlil Robert Irving wil be featured in a 3-person exhibition alongside Adrienne Outlaw and Sage Dawson at Sheldon Art Galleries, June 1–August 12, in St. Louis, MO.
Black Death..., a solo exhibition by Kahlil Robert Irving, digs deep. The exhibition explores the killing of unarmed Black Americans and speaks directly to numerous systems that marginalize Black Americans: from mass incarceration, educational inequities, municipalities profiting from poverty, to red-lining, the residual effects of Saint Louis area “sundown towns,” and other means that control the movement of Black communities. Irving’s work acts as a fervent cross-examination of our time. As a monitor of culture, Black Death… is a distinct memorial to those lives taken, and a declaration that there is much more work yet to do.
As winner of Wellesley College's 2017–18 Alice C. Cole '42 Fellowship, Kahlil Robert Irving will give an artist talk about his work and art practice at Wellesley College.
Melting Point: Movements in Contemporary Clay is the inaugural clay biennial at CAFAM (now Craft Contemporary), curated by Holly Jerger and Andres Payan Estrada. Other artists include Brian Benfer, Susannah Biondo-Gemmell, Ling Chun, Armando Cortes, Patsy Cox, Julia Haft-Candell, Stanton Hunter, Trevor King, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Linda Lopez, Walter McConnell, Ben Medansky, Jonathan Mess, Kristen Morgin, Wayne Perry, Jami Porter Lara, Brian Rochefort, Anthony Sonnenberg, Emily Sudd, Cheryl Ann Thomas, Matt Wedel.
Ephemera at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art includes Kahlil Robert Irving with Miles Neidinger, Susan White, Rena Detrixhe, Brian Jungen, and Michelle Segre.
