Basil Kincaid (b. 1986, St. Louis) is an artist whose intricate textile works—spanning quilting, drawing, 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 Museums in Washington, D.C. and Miami, for which he was an Artist-in-Residence; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; Library Street Collective; Venus Over Manhattan, and elsewhere. Select group exhibitions include Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; The Albertina, Vienna; North Carolina Museum of Art; Hauser & Wirt; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Royal Academy, London; and elsewhere.

Kincaid’s work is collected by The Albertina, Vienna; The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas; Detroit Institute of Art; International Quilt Museum, Nebraska; JP Morgan Art Collection, New York; Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, Washington, D.C.; The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; The Rubell Museum, Miami; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, D.C., and many others.