Miles Regis (b. 1967, San Fernando, Trinidad) | Painter, Designer, Multimedia Artist
Miles Regis grew up in a family of artists and performers in San Fernando, Trinidad. His mother Cynthia King was a singer, actress, and later a teacher. His uncle Alexander Sylvester King was a painter. His aunt Stephanie King was a television personality married to artist and musician David Boothman. The household ran on music — steel drums, calypso, jazz, soul, funk, reggae, and hip-hop — and Regis painted and sang from an early age.
Early Career
After high school, Regis wrote and performed on radio and television jingles and recorded and toured as the lead singer of the fifteen-member band Fireflight. In 1989 he left Trinidad for Los Angeles, where he enrolled at the University of Southern California to study creative writing. The move to LA reignited his painting practice, and the writing background became integral to his visual work — text, poetry, and one-liners appear throughout his canvases.
Professional Breakthrough
Regis's first major break came in 1997 when one of his paintings was featured in Erykah Badu's "Next Lifetime" music video. He was also featured in a national Ford commercial. His work has since been profiled by Forbes, CNN, the Huffington Post, Extra TV, and Ebony Magazine.
Exhibitions
Regis has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally. Solo exhibitions include Soul Fire (2025), Just Like Us (2024), What a Time To Be Alive (2023), and Better Days Ahead (2022) at Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles; Bearing Light (2025) at Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York; Color. Culture. Consciousness at Vancouver Fine Art Gallery; Fetch Your Healing (2022) at Galeria L, Mexico City; and Love Will Heal Us (2022) at UC Santa Barbara. Group exhibitions include the 23rd Annual LA Art Show (Eyes Forward, curated by Launch LA in collaboration with the California African American Museum), Art Basel Miami, Art Miami (Cynthia Corbett Gallery), Coachella Arts & Music Festival, KAABOO Festival, ICA Los Angeles (Incognito 2018), the North Dakota Museum of Art (Stories of Place, 2024), Brand Library & Art Center (Brand 52, 2024), and the Santa Monica Museum of Art. In 2025, Lincoln Center commissioned Safe Space, an augmented reality public art installation running June through October — FATHOM printed the limited edition series for the project.
Permanent Collections
Regis's work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington, D.C.), the California African American Museum (Los Angeles), the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario, Canada), and La Musée Borindar (Senegal). His paintings are also in the private collections of Halle Berry, Spike Lee, Jay Z, Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Mark Cuban, CCH Pounder, and the Marley Family, as well as in the corporate collection of Intel Corporation.
Representation
Regis is represented by Von Lintel Gallery (Los Angeles) and Ethan Cohen Gallery (New York), with additional gallery representation through Cynthia Corbett Gallery and Galeria L (Mexico City).
Miles Regis lives and works in Los Angeles. In addition to his painting practice, he maintains an active fashion design practice and continues to work in augmented and virtual reality.
Miles Regis Collections at FATHOM: America, The Series