Kendra Lucille Calhoun (1983) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working in painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, music, and performance.
Her current paintings explore metaphysical surrealism through dark atmospheric landscapes and celestial phenomena, drawing on traditions of Romantic landscape painting, visionary Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, placing a subtle cast of thoughtforms into a liminal sci-fi world.
Material processing and sensory translation are central to her practice. Informed by American minimalism and experimental electronic music, while incorporating and departing from Western classical compositional techniques she extends the practices of deep listening and music composition into visual art, and back into time-based forms, through both systematic and intuitive correspondences in an exchange that continually reshapes and evolves a 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 and music at Milwaukee Area Technical College before earning a B.A. through the CUNY Baccalaureate program in 2026, with a concentration in the Social Impact of Experimental Art Forms.
Her current paintings explore metaphysical surrealism through dark atmospheric landscapes and celestial phenomena, drawing on traditions of Romantic landscape painting, visionary Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, placing a subtle cast of thoughtforms into a liminal sci-fi world.
Material processing and sensory translation are central to her practice. Informed by American minimalism and experimental electronic music, while incorporating and departing from Western classical compositional techniques she extends the practices of deep listening and music composition into visual art, and back into time-based forms, through both systematic and intuitive correspondences in an exchange that continually reshapes and evolves a 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 and music at Milwaukee Area Technical College before earning a B.A. through the CUNY Baccalaureate program in 2026, with a concentration in the Social Impact of Experimental Art Forms.