"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 will be pursuing his MFA in Painting/ Printmaking at the Virginia Commonwealth University this Fall.

Hometown: Beaufort, South Carolina