Reggie Burrows Hodges

Born in Compton, California and raised across Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C., Reggie Burrows Hodges explores narratives around identity and experience in his paintings. Hodges is driven by his experiences growing up across America and the community that surrounds him. Hodges studied theater, film and African American studies at the University of Kansas, and began his painting practice later in life, in 2008 after moving to Maine.

Each canvas begins with a layer of black paint, on top of which forms materialize in loose brushwork. Hodge’s painterly technique creates a hazy, atmospheric effect, and the figures that appear are purposefully anonymous, as Hodges views the Black figure “as a stand-in for humanity.” (the artist quoted in: Suzette McAvoy and Reggie Burrows Hodges, “Some Holes Can’t Be Filled,” Karma, New York, 2020, p. 2)

A recipient of the 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptor’s Grant, Hodges’ work has been presented in seven solo exhibitions, and is held in many museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.