"I revisit shared daydreams with my brothers to reinvent us as aspirational, imagined personas inspired by Southern traditions, pop culture, and humor; through these characters, we declare ourselves unique."

Kevin Hopkins (b. 2000, Beaufort, South Carolina) is a painter based in Kansas City, Missouri. Hopkins creates imagined personas activated by Southern traditions, pop-cultural phenomena, anecdotes, and humor as a form of aspirational projection.

He was recognized internationally as a 2020, 2021, and 2022 Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Grantee and nationally as a 2021 AXA Art Prize finalist, and pursued his MFA in Painting/Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Hometown
Beaufort, SC