Email: kbc2135@columbia.edu

Cell: 917-517-1359

Bio & Artist Statement

Kevin Cobb is a painter and digital artist, born in Baltimore, MD and based in New York City, where he lives with his brilliant wife. He received his HSD from the Carver Center for Arts and Technology, his BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art, and his MFA from Columbia University. He has shown in Baltimore, New York, and London, and won several awards for his paintings and digital artworks.

My art is concerned with perspective, framing, and illusion, as well as the nature of observation as it relates to self-consciousness, spiritual self-realization, and surveillance. My fascination with the spherical perspective and the first person point of view grew from my engagement with religion, spirituality and mindfulness, as they serve as perspectival motifs for holism and rootedness in the present, like a more multi-dimensional form of the symbolic dot within a circle. 

Often, in ways particularly potent today, I feel compelled to process myself through external models of myself generated by the surveilling, algorithmic logic of the internet, market, and popular culture, deeply embedded in my mind like a new type of SuperEgo, or a cyber double-consciousness. My visual style is likely influenced by my screen-laden life, at once aware of myself, the frame of the screen that distinguishes a game or show from the surrounding context, and the viewpoint of the game avatar or protagonist. I think technology like 3D modelling can be a powerful tool for expanding one’s viewpoint beyond what is otherwise possible, which is why I incorporate it significantly in parts of my art practice.

My current body of work is a meditation on self awareness, global awareness, and ideas of what lies beyond my awareness. I journey inward and outward, through analysis and deconstruction of myself, toward more accurate and inclusive views of the world.

Please contact me if you have questions or commission proposals.

Portrait Drawing and Painting

2D & 3D Illustration

3D Modelling/Animation