Kendra Lucille Calhoun (b. 1983) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working in painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, music, and performance.
Her paintings explore metaphysical surrealism through dark, atmospheric landscapes and celestial phenomena. Drawing on Romantic landscape painting, visionary Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, she develops a liminal science-fiction world inhabited by a subtle cast of thoughtforms. *
Material processing and sensory translation are central to her practice. Her approach draws on the repetition, sustained tones, and trance-like states of postwar American minimalist music, as well as experimental electronic music. Incorporating and departing from Western classical compositional techniques, she extends deep listening and musical composition into visual art. Through systematic and intuitive experiments, she translates the felt experience of images into time-based forms such as music, performance, and moving image, sometimes returning them to still images. These exchanges continually reshape an evolving narrative world.
Active in experimental music since 2006, her background includes international performances, recording projects, radio, music and art education, and editorial design. She studied New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, music at Milwaukee Area Technical College, and printmaking at Hunter College. She earned a B.A. through the CUNY Baccalaureate program in 2026, with a concentration in the Social Impact of Experimental Art Forms.
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Her paintings explore metaphysical surrealism through dark, atmospheric landscapes and celestial phenomena. Drawing on Romantic landscape painting, visionary Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, she develops a liminal science-fiction world inhabited by a subtle cast of thoughtforms. *
Material processing and sensory translation are central to her practice. Her approach draws on the repetition, sustained tones, and trance-like states of postwar American minimalist music, as well as experimental electronic music. Incorporating and departing from Western classical compositional techniques, she extends deep listening and musical composition into visual art. Through systematic and intuitive experiments, she translates the felt experience of images into time-based forms such as music, performance, and moving image, sometimes returning them to still images. These exchanges continually reshape an evolving narrative world.
Active in experimental music since 2006, her background includes international performances, recording projects, radio, music and art education, and editorial design. She studied New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, music at Milwaukee Area Technical College, and printmaking at Hunter College. She earned a B.A. through the CUNY Baccalaureate program in 2026, with a concentration in the Social Impact of Experimental Art Forms.
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