Born in Boston, MA to Caribbean parents, Arnold J. Kemp (b. 1968) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator whose work is at once, poetically lyrical and culturally informed. His work serves as a reminder of today's socio-political landscape and its reverberations in the Black psyche. His experiments in art making extend beyond the studio and formal gallery system by taking the form of talks, performances, limited-edition artist’s books, collaborations and art objects. For the artist, art production holds potential to spur new thinking about the requirements of creativity in a world where all bodies need to engage creatively every single day. Arnold J. Kemp’s works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Portland Art Museum, the Schneider Museum of Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, the Hammer Art Museum, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar and The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection. Recent exhibitions include LESS LIKE AN OBJECT, MORE LIKE THE WEATHER, Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago; TALKING TO THE SUN, M. LeBlanc, Chicago; STAGE, Martos Gallery, New York; FALSE HYDRAS, JOAN, Los Angeles; WHEN THE SICK RULE THE WORLD, Biquini Wax, Mexico City; and To Whom Keeps a Record, Center for Maine Contemporary Art.