2017-18 Kahlil Irving

Kahlil Irving, the 2017-18 Alice C. Cole '42 Fellow, is a St. Louis-based multimedia artist with a focus on sculpture and installation. His work challenges ideas about colorism, community, and the urban environment. Objects and forms taken directly from the urban landscape are translated into the fine arts materials of porcelain and ceramics and are combined, warped, and recontextualized in his works.

A graduate of the MFA program at Washington University, Irving has exhibited throughout the midwest, and at the time of this fellowship recently had a solo exhibition at Callicoon Fine Arts in New York City.

a series of agglomerated ceramics sculptures resting on a line of tall pale wood tables in a gallery

Streets:Chains:Cocktails installation view, Callicoon Fine Arts, Kahlil Irving, 2017. Photo by Sean Fader, courtesy of the artist and Callicoon Fine Arts, New York.

a ceramic sculpture made of what looks like many disparate pieces clumped together, some shards, some drips, in shades of mostly white, tan, and brown; the words 'I AM MIKE' are visible in blue on the left side of the piece

Bricks, Concrete, Tubes (Mass Memorial), Kahlil Irving, glazed or unglazed porcelain and stoneware, grave, red earthenware brick, personally constructed decals, blue, silver, gold lustre.

Kahlil Irving artist website

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seal of the Alice C. Cole '42 awards - line drawing of a woman with chisel and paint brush, surrounded by circular borders and oak leaves

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