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See You At Home(Ongoing)
Modern Country Doctor (2021)
A Collaborative Polaroid
(2020-2021)
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Vikesh Kapoor
Exhibitions
October 18 2025 - August 30 2026
National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian
Washington, DC
The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today
ABOUT
Vikesh Kapoor (born Sunset Pines, PA) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines race, class and identity as a first-generation American.
Kapoor has exhibited his series “See You at Home” in solo exhibitions at The Print Center, Philadelphia PA; Filter Space, Chicago, IL; and New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, LA. He has been included in group exhibitions at the Houston Center for Photography, TX; Aperture Foundation, New York, NY; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA; and SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, among other venues.
He has received numerous awards, including the Daylight Photo Award, The Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Emerging Photographer Scholarship from the Houston Center for Photography, The Hopper Prize, LensCulture Art Photography Juror's Pick Award, PhotoNola Review Grand Prize and a Project Development Grant from CENTER, Santa Fe, NM. He has been a finalist for the Documentary Essay Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University; PHmuseum Mobile Photography Prize; and Portrait Award from the Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia as well as a semifinalist for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
Kapoor is currently a fellow in the inaugural Google Image Equity Fellowship, with partners For Freedoms, Aperture Foundation, Free the Work and Creative Theory Agency.
In 2021, he produced the Leica x 1854 Witnesses of: Devotion commission for the British Journal of Photography.
Kapoor was an artist-in-residence at Latitude Chicago in 2020 and the Center of Photography at Woodstock, NY in 2019.
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Vikesh Kapoor’s songs have been highlighted by The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Interview Magazine and The Guardian.
His debut album, The Ballad of Willy Robbins, was released to critical acclaim in 2013.
From 2013-2019, Vikesh performed across the United States and Europe, selling out concerts in New York, London and Rome.
In 2010, Kapoor was invited to write a song in memory of Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People's History of the United States. Kapoor performed his song at Zinn’s memorial service, held at Boston University, alongside Noam Chomsky and prominent activists from the civil rights movement.
He resides in Los Angeles, California.
Vikesh Kapoor (born Sunset Pines, PA) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines race, class and identity as a first-generation American.
Kapoor has exhibited his series “See You at Home” in solo exhibitions at The Print Center, Philadelphia PA; Filter Space, Chicago, IL; and New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, LA. He has been included in group exhibitions at the Houston Center for Photography, TX; Aperture Foundation, New York, NY; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA; and SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, among other venues.
He has received numerous awards, including the Daylight Photo Award, The Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Emerging Photographer Scholarship from the Houston Center for Photography, The Hopper Prize, LensCulture Art Photography Juror's Pick Award, PhotoNola Review Grand Prize and a Project Development Grant from CENTER, Santa Fe, NM. He has been a finalist for the Documentary Essay Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University; PHmuseum Mobile Photography Prize; and Portrait Award from the Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia as well as a semifinalist for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
Kapoor is currently a fellow in the inaugural Google Image Equity Fellowship, with partners For Freedoms, Aperture Foundation, Free the Work and Creative Theory Agency.
In 2021, he produced the Leica x 1854 Witnesses of: Devotion commission for the British Journal of Photography.
Kapoor was an artist-in-residence at Latitude Chicago in 2020 and the Center of Photography at Woodstock, NY in 2019.
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Vikesh Kapoor’s songs have been highlighted by The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Interview Magazine and The Guardian.
His debut album, The Ballad of Willy Robbins, was released to critical acclaim in 2013.
From 2013-2019, Vikesh performed across the United States and Europe, selling out concerts in New York, London and Rome.
In 2010, Kapoor was invited to write a song in memory of Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People's History of the United States. Kapoor performed his song at Zinn’s memorial service, held at Boston University, alongside Noam Chomsky and prominent activists from the civil rights movement.
He resides in Los Angeles, California.
CONTACT
For Commissions, Exhibition Requests, Print Acquisitions:
info@vikeshkapoor.com
Telephone: +1 323-546-4171
US Concert Booking: jared@danny-rose.com
EU Concert Booking: tom@loosemusic.com
US Press: daniel@luckybirdmedia.com
EU Press: julia@loosemusic.com
Song Licensing: jeff@parkthevan.com
MAILING LIST
For Commissions, Exhibition Requests, Print Acquisitions:
info@vikeshkapoor.com
Telephone: +1 323-546-4171
US Concert Booking: jared@danny-rose.com
EU Concert Booking: tom@loosemusic.com
US Press: daniel@luckybirdmedia.com
EU Press: julia@loosemusic.com
Song Licensing: jeff@parkthevan.com
MAILING LIST
b. 1985, Pennsylvania
info@vikeshkapoor.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Filter Space, Chicago IL
The Print Center, Philadelphia PA
2021 New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans LA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Atlanta Photography Group, Portfolio 2022, Atlanta GA
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Experiences of Identity, Denver CO
2021 Filter Space, Chicago IL
Encontros da Imagem, Braga Portugal
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Fellowship 21, Pittsburgh PA
Naples Art, Camera USA 2020, Naples FL, Juror: Leigh Gleason, Susan Spiritus
2020 Center for Photographic Art, International Juried Exhibition, Carmel CA Juror: Aline Smithson, Lenscratch
India Photo Festival, Hyderabad India, Juror: Alexa Keefe, Senior Photo Editor, National Geographic
Photographic Resource Center, Exposure 2020, Boston MA, Juror: Makeda Best
Academy Art Museum, New Photography II, Easton MD, Juror: Philip Brookman
Head On Photo Festival, Portrait Award, Sydney Australia
Spiva Center for the Arts, Photo Spiva 2020, Joplin MO, Juror: April Watson
2019 Photo Vogue Festival, Milan Italy
Houston Center for Photography, 2019 Center Annual, Houston TX
SF Camerawork, Forecast 2019: Annual Survey, San Francisco CA
Silver Eye Center of Photography, Honorably Mentioned, Pittsburgh PA
MOPLA, Three-Person Exhibition, Los Angeles CA
Aperture Foundation, Lensculture: Beyond Boundaries, New York NY
MOPLA, Analogue Portrait Project, Los Angeles CA
LACDA, Ten Artists to Watch, Los Angeles CA, Juror: Meghan Doherty, Leigh Gleason
Der Greif, Guest Room: Alessia Glaviano, Vogue Italia
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, CENTER Award Winners, Boone NC
2018 The Main Museum, Office Hours In-Focus, Los Angeles CA
Save Art Space x Otis College, 100% LA, Los Angeles CA
Ain’t Bad Magazine, The Portrait, Online
Lenscratch, Good Manners, Online, Juror: Christy Havranek
2017 The Main Museum, Office Hours, Los Angeles CA
The Print Space, Negative Feedback, London UK
Newspace Center for Photography, Member Space, Portland OR
Black Box Gallery, Dynamic Landscapes, Portland OR
Newspace Center for Photography, Member’s Show, Portland OR
AWARDS & HONORS
2022 Recipient, Google Image Equity Fellowship
Winner, Daylight Photo Awards, Daylight Books
Finalist, Visionary Project Award, Film Photo Award
Recipient, The 30 Photographers (formerly PDN 30)
2021 Finalist, The Print Center Annual International Competition
Grand Prize, Lucie Foundation: Notions of Home
Winner, Leica x British Journal of Photography Commission, Witnesses of: Devotion
Winner, The Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Emerging Photographer Scholarship, Houston Center for Photography
2020 Winner, The Hopper Prize, Jurors: Amber Esseiva, Associate Curator, Institute for Contemporary Art
VCU and Leila Grotha, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art
Finalist, Documentary Essay Prize, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Second Place, Mobile Photography Prize: Home, Family and Community, PHmuseum
Finalist, Portrait Award, Head On Photo Festival, Juror: Whitney Johnson, National Geographic
Winner, Nikon Scholarship, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops
Grand Prize, PhotoNOLA Review Prize, PhotoNOLA
2019 Shortlist, Fine Art Scholarship, Chromaluxe x Lucie Foundation
Winner, Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation
Shortlist, Grand Prix Images Vevey, Juried by Dayanita Singh, Emma Bowkett, Lesley A. Martin, Christoph
Wiesner and Francesco Zano
Semifinalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
2018 Top 50, Critical Mass, Photolucida
Juror’s Commendation, Keystone Award Fellowship, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Juror: Jessica Beck, Milton Fine Curator of Art, Andy Warhol Museum
Juror’s Pick, Art Photography Awards, Lensculture, Juror: Corey Keller, Curator of Photography, SFMoMA
Winner, Project Development Grant, CENTER, Juror: Leslie Ureña, Associate Curator of Photographs, National
Portrait Gallery
Shortlist, Photo Taken Scholarship, Lucie Foundation
Finalist, Alex & Rebecca Norris Webb Book Workshop Scholarship, Radius Books
Winner, Workshop Scholarship, Spirit Into Matter with James Hajicek & Carol Panaro-Smith
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2021 Latitude, Chicago IL
2019 Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock NY
PUBLICATIONS
2021 A Story of Devotion in a Rural Pennsylvanian Town, British Journal of Photography
2021 Vikesh Kapoor’s Love Letter to his Immigrant Mother, British Journal of Photography
2020 JRNL 6,Fotofilmic, Guest Edited by Emma Bowkett, Director of Photography FT Weekend Magazine
2020 The Ordinary and Extraordinary, Spot Magazine, Houston Center for Photography, Essay by Leigh Gleason
2019 The Best of Lensculture: Vol. 3, Schilt Publishing
COLLECTIONS
Latitude Chicago
Center for Photography at Woodstock
Lucie Foundation
SELECTED PRESS
2020 PHmuseum, Mobile Photography Prize
2018 Lensculture, See You At Home
The Guardian, Art’s New Frontiers
Lenscratch, Center Awards
Center, Project Development Grant
Ain’t Bad Magazine, Feature