Arnold J. Kemp’s works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, and the Portland Art Museum among others. Kemp is the recipient of awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, among others. Recent exhibitions include “WHEN THE SICK RULE THE WORLD”, (Biquini Wax, Mexico City); “THE STUPIDITY OF BELIEF”, (Iceberg Projects, Chicago); and “THE BIG DARK” w/ artist Kristan Kennedy, (Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR). Kemp’s work has also been shown recently at the Drawing Center, New York and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and his work is featured in Nia DaCosta’s film “Candyman” (Monkeypaw Productions, 2020). Kemp lives and works in Chicago, and until recently was dean of graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.