Kevin Beasley was born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1985. He lives and works in New York. Beasley earned a BFA in painting and sculpture at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit (2007), followed by an MFA in sculpture from Yale University (2012). Beasley’s practice, which spans sculpture, photography, sound, and performance, centers on materials of cultural and personal significance, from raw cotton harvested from his family’s property in Virginia to sounds gathered using contact microphones. Beasley alters, casts, and molds these diverse materials to form a body of works that acknowledge the complex, shared histories of the broader American experience, steeped in generational memories.