Titus Kaphar received an MFA from the Yale School of Art and is a distinguished recipient of numerous prizes and awards including a 2014 Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship, a 2015 Creative Capital grant, a 2016 Robert R. Rauschenberg Artist as Activist grant and a 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant. In late 2014, TIME magazine commissioned Kaphar to create an artwork in response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Kaphar gave a TED talk at the annual conference in Vancouver, 2017. He completed his whitewash painting, Shifting the Gaze, onstage. Kaphar’s work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. His work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.