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 fellowships and awards including the inaugural Google Image Equity Fellowship, the Silver Eye Center for Photography Keystone Fellowship Award, Daylight Photo Award, The Hopper Prize, LensCulture Art Photography Juror's Pick Award, PhotoNola Review Grand Prize and Project Development Grant from CENTER.


In 2025, he will make his museum debut at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian as part of The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today.


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 Wassaic Project in 2024, Latitude Chicago in 2020 and the Center of Photography at Woodstock, NY in 2019.


He is a full member of Diversify Photo.

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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: studio@vikeshkapoor.com

Telephone: +1 323-546-4171


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