Reggie Burrow Hodges

Reggie Burrows Hodges (b. 1965, Compton, CA) is a Maine-based painter whose work explores storytelling, identity, memory, and the interplay between individuals and their environments. Working in acrylic and pastel on raw canvas, Hodges begins his compositions with a black ground and builds atmospheric scenes where figures emerge through soft, foggy brushwork. Often stripped of physical identifiers, his subjects are defined by their surroundings rather than distinct features—an approach that draws attention to perception, ambiguity, and the influence of place. These visual metaphors, rooted in his own experiences growing up in Compton, reflect Hodges’s interest in how memory shapes human narratives.

Hodges’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Parrish Art Museum, Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. He is represented by Karma and has shown with them in both New York and Los Angeles. His paintings are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, the Studio Museum in Harlem, LACMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. Hodges studied theater and film at the University of Kansas and was awarded the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Fellowship in the Visual Arts in 2019.