Chase Hall | Artist | East West Bank Art Program

Chase Hall’s art reaches deeply into his cultural and familial heritage to create works that confront his relationship to race, legacy, and history, while carrying the viewer on the journey with him. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to a white mother and Black father, his deeply auto-biographical paintings are rooted in American generational narratives. In his increasingly alchemical practice, Hall uses brewed coffee to create rich skintone pigments which then stain untreated cotton supports, offering an embodied critique of the oppression and trade which has historically produced the mediums in which he works. Images of Black life in America, outside of the stereotypical or obvious contexts, fill his canvases, bringing light and life to a full scope of humanity.

Hall’s works have been exhibited at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Palazzo Barberini, Rome; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others. His work is included in the permanent collections of institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He has been featured in Forbes and GQ Magazine. Read more