Titus Kaphar is an American contemporary painter whose work reconfigures and regenerates art history to include the African-American subject.
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10 Facts About Titus Kaphar
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Titus Kaphar's paintings are held in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, New Britain Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and University of Michigan Museum of Art.
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Titus Kaphar received his BFA from San Jose State University in 2001 and his MFA from Yale University.
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Titus Kaphar's work is often multidimensional and sculptural, with canvases slashed and dangling off the frame, or hanging over another painting.
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Titus Kaphar created an installation where visitors would walk through a 19th-century house, uncertain about what was reality and what was remembrance.
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Titus Kaphar intended to create a physical space for Vesper to return and face his memories, and this became the foundation of The Vesper Project.
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Titus Kaphar was commissioned in 2014 by Time magazine to paint a response to the Ferguson Uprising.
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Titus Kaphar painted the canvas in such a way as to create the illusion that the portrait of Jefferson painted by Rembrandt Peale in 1800 is being pulled back like a curtain to reveal a seated Hemings.
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Titus Kaphar has staged numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and internationally.
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Titus Kaphar has participated in a large number of group exhibitions, including Afro-Atlantic Histories .
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