Basil Kincaid (b. 1986, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American artist who honors and evolves traditional practices through quilting, collaging, photography, installation and performance. Implementing materials vested with emotional and memorial content, Kincaid allows these mediums to function as spiritual technology that forward various wisdoms born from Kincaid’s greatest values: family, imagination, rest, and experience.
Born in St. Louis Missouri in 1986.
Lives and works in Accra, Ghana and St. Louis, Missouri.
Installation view of Inward Cartography: Self of Selves at Library Street Collective, March 15, 2025 — May 21, 2025
“When I started making that work it felt really important to me to uplift these women in my family whose magical talents had gone invisible...”
— Basil Kincaid
Selected Work
Basil Kincaid
Ed È Subito Sera, 2025
Embroidery on canvas
62.5h x 81.5w in
Basil Kincaid
Self of Selves: All the material to make Miracles, 2025
Embroidery on canvas
62.5h x 71.625w in
Press
April 16, 2025
Basil Kincaid Examines Identity With ‘Inward Cartography: Self of Selves’ Exhibition
Essence
December 5, 2023
Meet Basil Kincaid, the Artist-Quilter Making a Splash in Miami Beach
Artnet
Nov 6, 2023
The Artsy Vanguard 2023–2024: Basil Kincaid
Artsy
September 15, 2022
Made in His Accra Studio, Basil Kincaid’s Quilts Tie Together Histories of Black Quilters, Including His Own Family
Cultured Magazine