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Khalilah Birdsong, born in Cleveland and raised in Atlanta, is a celebrated visual artist known for her expansive abstract paintings and installations.
Khalilah Birdsong
Khalilah Birdsong (b. 1977, Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, United States) is a visual artist who creates large-scale abstract paintings and installations. Birdsong has exhibited with galleries in Atlanta, Georgia, Cincinnati, Ohio, New York, New York, Hamburg, Germany, Mallorca, Spain and London, England. She has had solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Italy, Spain and Great Britain. Khalilah’s paintings are in private and corporate collections around the world, including commissioned works.
Her installation work has been commissioned by corporations in Atlanta, Georgia and Tokyo, Japan. Birdsong’s work can be found in 44th United States President Barack Obama’s private collection, which is being considered to hang in his Presidential Library.
The scale and evidence of physicality of Birdsong’s paintings echoes Jack Whitten, Alfred Leslie, Joan Mitchell, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Ed Clark and the