Basil Kincaid (b. 1986, St. Louis) is an artist whose intricate textile works—spanning quilting, embroidery, installation, and performance—serve as portals into spiritual and cultural memory. Known for a deep engagement with repurposed materials, Kincaid’s practice honors the legacy of Black quilt-making while expanding its language into new, multidimensional forms.

Rejecting rigid categorization, Kincaid navigates both abstract and narrative modalities, exploring the expansiveness of perception and the body across spiritual, emotional, and digital realms. Kincaid’s works are crafted across continents—from studios in St. Louis and Ghana—charting a transatlantic geography of self-exploration, resilience, and cultural continuity. Influenced by artists such as Anni Albers and Alma Thomas, and inspired by natural phenomena, meteorology, and cosmic systems, Kincaid’s practice bridges ancestral traditions with contemporary aesthetics. The result is a visual cosmology that reflects both the terrestrial and the transcendent.

Kincaid’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Rubell Museum, Washington, D.C. (2025); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (2025); Library Street Collective (2025); The Rubell Museum, Miami (2023), for which he was an Artist-in-Residence; Venus Over Manhattan, New York (2022), and elsewhere. Select group exhibitions include The Threads We Follow, curated by Maya Brooks, North Carolina Museum of Art (2023); The New Bend, curated by Legacy Russell, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2022); This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, D.C. (2022); and Reclaiming Magic, curated by Yinka Shonibare, Royal Academy, London (2021), among many others.

Kincaid’s work is collected by The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach; JP Morgan Art Collection, New York; The North Carolina Museum of Art; The Rubell Museum, Miami; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, D.C., and others.

Please direct inquiries to studio@basilkincaid.com.