Khalilah Birdsong
KHALILAH BIRDSONG
Khalilah Birdsong (b. 1977, Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, United States) is a visual artist who creates large-scale abstract paintings and installations. Birdsong has exhibited with galleries in Atlanta, Georgia, Cincinnati, Ohio, New York, New York, Hamburg, Germany, Mallorca, Spain and London, England. She has had solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Italy, Spain and Great Britain. Khalilah’s paintings are in private and corporate collections around the world, including commissioned works. Her installation work has been commissioned by corporations in Atlanta, Georgia and Tokyo, Japan. Birdsong’s work can be found in 44th United States President Barack Obama’s private collection, which is being considered to hang in his Presidential Library.
The scale and evidence of physicality of Birdsong’s paintings echoes Jack Whitten, Alfred Leslie, Joan Mitchell, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Ed Clark and the late abstract paintings of Gerhard Richter. Birdsong differs from many of these early abstract painters in that while many of those artists were tied to references to nature, and a looser freer gesture, she combines physicality with a precision and a finely calibrated balance in her work.
In 2019, Khalilah was named by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine (London, England) as “100 Future Contemporary Artists”. Birdsong was invited to participate in the XIIth Florence Biennale in Florence, Italy where she exhibited four large-scale paintings and a sculptural installation in 2019. In 2020, Birdsong was awarded a Hambidge Fellowship for the Creative Arts & Sciences. Khalilah lives and works in London, England where she recently completed her Masters of Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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