Kevin Sloan | Magic realism painter

Kevin Sloan is a Denver-based painter working primarily with acrylic on canvas, drawings and paintings on paper, and mixed media sculpture.

Growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, his early interest in art was nurtured by student classes at the Des Moines Art Center.

It was clear upon high school graduation that he would continue to study art in college.

He received a BFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art, where he studied with Stephen Greene and Stanley Whitney.

He continued his formal education at the University of Arizona, studying with James G. Davis, where he received an MFA in Painting.

His curiosity and love of travel have led him to live and work in a wide variety of cities across the United States, including San Francisco, New York City, New Orleans, Key West, FL and Santa Fe, NM.

All these locales have had a lasting impact on his practice.

Kevin’s work is an inquiry into whether a painting can hold the qualities of wonder and awe via the mundane and overlooked.

Additionally, he is interested in what it means to be a painter of the natural world in a time of such extraordinary change, environmentally, politically, and socially.

In addition to his studio practice, he has been a visiting artist in residence at universities around the United States and occasionally teaches upper-level painting classes in Denver.

He exhibits regularly in one-person and group exhibits around the country.

His work is found in numerous private and public collections worldwide, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, and the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona.

Kevin currently works in a converted church in the historic Denver neighborhood of Globeville, where, in addition to painting, he grows flowers and vegetables in the summer months.

He shares his life with his husband Mark and two spirited Labradoodles, Otis and Poppy.