Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and Oakland, CA
Born Louisville, KY 1987
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Lives and works in Los Angeles and Berkeley, CA
Education
2015-16 US Fulbright Fellowship to Lagos, Nigeria
2012 MFA Art & Critical Studies/Creative Writing, California Institute of the Arts
2009 BFA Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art
2008-2009 AICAD New York Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Kentifrications: Convergent Truth(s) and Realities, Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Retrieval, The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2017
The Evanesced, The California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Moss Art Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Who Among Us…The Art of Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle The Museum of the African Diaspora,
San Francisco, CA
2015
Who Among Us...The Art of Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, The Museum of the African Diaspora,
San Francisco, CA
Looking Where it Ain’t, University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham, NH
Navigating The Historical Present: Kentifrican Interventions, Clark Humanities Museum, Claremont, CA
Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, Volta Art Fair Solo Project, New York
2014
Say it isn't so...., Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Kentifrica Is or Kentifrica Ain’t?, The Bindery Projects, St. Paul, Minnesota
The Knee Grow in the New World, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts
2010
The Nowannago and Other Kentifrican Narratives, L-Shape Gallery, California Institute
of the Arts
Selected Group Exhibitions
201818
Black is a Color, Curated by Essence Harden, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017
Starless Midnight, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Black Women Over Breathing, Betti Ono, Oakland, CA
Black Is A Color, Curated by Essence Harden, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Black Mirror, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Why Art Matters? Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2016
Exploring The Nowannago, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
Dear Europa, What If The World Gallery, Capetown, South Africa
Intersectionality, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
2015
Role Play, Sun Valley Center for The Arts, Sun Valley, ID
Performing Blackness: Performing Whiteness, Allgeheny College, PA
Biomythography: Secret Poetry & Hidden Angers, Curated by Jessica Wimbley & Chris Christian, Cal Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA
2014
Biomythography: Secret Poetry & Hidden Angers, Curated by Jessica Wimbley & Chris Christian, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2013
Seven Sister, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Connection Reflection curated by Nikki Pressely, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Fore, Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
Balia con Dunde, Watts Tower Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
Authenticity?, Untitled Art Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Made in LA 2012 Biennial, LAXART, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art
Gallery Los Angeles, CA
Venice Beach Biennial, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Intimacies: MFA 2011 GradShow, Farley Building, Los Angeles, CA
MFA Mid-Residency Group Show, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2009
Colorblind/Colorsight, Katzen Art Center Gallery- American University
Our Common Bond: Mother Daughter Sister Self, Galerie Mrytis, Baltimore, MD
Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout, Hillyer Art Space, Washington .D.C.
2008
Fun Home, New York Studio Program Exhibition, DUMBO, NY
Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Gateway Gallery MICA, Baltimore, MD
Performances
2018
Unghosting the Ghosted, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2017
The Evanesced, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Exploring the Nowannago with Tyler Matthew Oyer, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Evanesced: Embodied Disappearance, The California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kentifrica Is Or Kentifrica Ain’t Panel Discussion, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2016
Exploring The Nowannago with Tyler Matthew Oyer, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Exploring The Nowannago with Tyler Matthew Oyer, The Museum of The African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2015
Kentifrica Is Or Kentifrica Ain’t Panel Discussion, University of New Hampshire
2014
Call & Response: A Symposium of Black Women in Performance, Curated and organized by Gabrielle Civil, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
2012
The Uninvited: Uncharting the Charted, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Kentifrica Is: An Ethnomusicology Concert, Made in LA 2012 Biennial, LAXART &
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Venice Beach Biennial, LAXART & Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Perform Chinatown 4th Annual Performance Festival, Charlie James Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
Baila Con Dunde, Watts Tower Art Center, Los Angeles CA
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
2018 CCI Quick Grant Professional Development Award
2016 Litmus Press First Book Prize
2016 Rema Hortman Foundation Emerging Artist Award
2016 CCI Quick Grant Professional Development Award
2015-16 US Fulbright Student Award to Lagos, Nigeria
2014 Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Grant
2014 Social Practice in Art Grant from SPArt LA
2013 ARC Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation
2012 Artadia Fund for Dialogue & Art- Finalist
2011 Interdisciplinary Grant, California Institute of the Arts
2009 Jacob K. Javits Graduate Full Fellowship
Residencies
2017-18 Wanless Artist In Residency, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2017 18th Street Art Center, Artist Lab, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Atlantic Center for the Arts with Master Artist Sanford Biggers
2015-2016 US Fulbright Fellow Lagos, Nigeria
2012 VAN Residency, Project Row Houses, Round 36, Houston, TX
Art Fairs
2016- Art Miami, AIPAD- Jenkins Johnson Gallery
2016 Contemporary African Art Fair 1:54, London, UK- Jenkins Johnson Gallery
2016 Expo Chicago- Jenkins Johnson Gallery
2015 MIAMI ART BASEL- Jenkins Johnson Gallery
2015 VOLTA ART FAIR- Solo Booth, Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Artist Talks & Workshops
2018
2018
Black Portraitures IV The Color of Silence: Fear in Transition and The Hauntalogical Present, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Art Practice UC Berkeley Noon Lecture Series, Berkeley, CA
Points of Access: Artists in Conversation moderated by Isabelle Lutterodt, organized by CAAM and Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA
CAA Conference: Resistance, Resilience, and Refuge: Sustaining A Contemporary Creative Practice, Los Angeles, CA
Chapman University, Visiting Artist for Special Topics in Photography ART 321, Orange, CA
2017
CUT THE GAP Feminist Symposium, SMK (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen, Denmark
Emerging Professionals: Panel Discussion for Black Women Over Breathing, Betti Ono, Oakland, CA
Todd Gray & Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle In Conversation at The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Kentucky College of Art + Design, Visiting Artist Lecture, Louisville, KY
2016
Performing the Continent Panel Black Portraitures 3 Conference, Johannesburg, SA- Panelist
If We Must Die: Conversations About Art, Grieving, Healing and Social Justice, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA- Workshop lead by Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
Moss Art Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA- Artist Talk
Guest Artist, New Genres Course, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
The Museum of The African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA- Who Among Us… Artist Talk
University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria- Artist Talk: The Kentifrica Project Introduction
2015
Dangerous Conversations: Raced/Gendered/Classed Violence in the USA, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle: Navigating The Historical Present, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Art + Practice, Navigating Ain'tness: Exploring The Kentifrica Archive, Los Angeles, CA
2014
New York Studio Program, Artist Talk, New York City, NY
Teaching
2018
Art Center, RE-Presentation: Narrative & Bodies, Pasadena, CA
2017
Art Center, Portraits Re-Considered, Co-Taught with Esther Pearl Watson, Pasadena, CA
Wanless Artist In Residence, Arts Outside the Bounds, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Kentucky College of Art + Design, Rotating Faculty, Louisville, KY
2016
CalArts, Experimental Drawing, Co-Taught with Tyler Matthew Oyer
University of Lagos, African- American Art History, Advanced Drawing, Painting Lagos, Nigeria
2015
Alliant University/Aspire Ollin, Introduction to the Arts and Humanities Fall/Spring
2010-12
Graduate Teaching Assistant, CalArts School of Creative Writing:
21st Century Art Movements- Maggie Nelson
European Studies: Monsters, Madmen and the Double, Norman Klein
Graduate Teaching Assistant- CalArts School of Art, Community Arts Partnership Art Pilots Course
Writing
SIR, Forthcoming with Litmus Press 2018
The Self-Lovers Suite of Confessional Texts: Conversations with the Women in Kerry James Marshall’s Mastry, Not That But This Arts & Culture Webzine, May 30, 2017
Remixing History: Telling Lies Faster Than A Cat Can Lick His Own Ass, Among Margins, Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics, Edited by Fox Frasier Foley and Diana Arterian, Ricochet Press, September 2016
Cooking Kentifrican Cuisine with Chef Isaac DeLamatre, Call & Response: Experiments in Joy Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, Fall 2015 | 41.1 • 41.2
Infinity Affinity Loops: Edgar Arceneaux in Conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Not That But This Arts & Culture Webzine, November, 19 2016
A Shape That Stands Up, Not That But This Arts & Culture Webzine, May 2, 2016
Charles Gaines: Undoing Perception, Not That But This Arts & Culture Webzine, June 20, 2015
Bibliography/ Selected Press
Bay Area Reporter, Unghosted Women, Sura Wood, March 8, 2018
KQED, Bay Area Artist ‘Retrieves’ Missing Young Black Women, Jermey Siegel, February 19, 2018
San Francisco Chronicle, An Artist’s ‘Unportraits’ Summon Missing Black Women, Ryan Kost, February 15, 2018
Hyperallergic, Imagining the Portraits of African AMerican Women Erased from History, Colony Little, April 25, 2017
The New York Times, One Artist’s Melancholy Look at Missing African-American Women, Sopan Deb. Online April 14, 2017 and Page C1 of the New York edition with the headline: An Exhibition Expressly Made For the Missing April 15, 2017
The Huffington Post, Artist Creates Haunting Ode To The Countless Black, Female Bodies That Have Disappeared, Priscilla Frank, Posted March 30, 2017
LA Times, Review: 100 missing women: Drawings at African American museum tell a powerful story of loss, Christopher Knight, March 27, 2017
LA Weekly, Inspired by #SayHerName, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle Is Keeping Black Women
From Disappearing, Eva Recinos Eva Recinos, March 13, 2017
The Root, 16 Artists Who Made Sure Black Lives Matter At Art Basel, Julie Walker
December 5, 2016
Artforum, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle 500 Words by Monica Westin, online November 2016
artltd, The Gender Gap: Are Female Artists Still Under Valued? George Melrod, May/June 2015
ArtBound Southern California Cultural Journalism KCET, Haunted Geographies: The
Living Work of Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Nikki Darling, Posted online March 12, 2014
Artvoices Magazine 25 Artist to Collect & Watch, Terrance Sanders, Fall Issue 2014
Huffington Post Arts & Culture, Black Artists: 30 Contemporary Art Makers Under 40 You Should Know, Posted online: February 26, 2013
New York Times, Art & Design, Racial Redefinition in Progress ‘Fore’ at Studio Museum in Harlem by Holland Cotter, November 29, 2012
New York Times online, The Week Ahead Nov. 4-10, November 2, 2012
ArtForum, Made in L.A. 2012 Hammer Museum, LAXART, Los Angeles Municipal Art
Gallery by Michael Ned Holte, October 2012
LA Weekly, Art+Books LA Weekly, Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A’: Three Artists’ Journey to L.A.’s New Biennial by Catherine Wagley, May 31, 2012
Los Angeles Times blog, Hammer Announces $100,000 prize for new biennial; 60 artists chosen by Jori Finkel, March 14, 2012
The Washington Post, Group Show at Hillyer by Jessica Dawson, Aug. 1 2009