Miles Regis (b. 1967, San Fernando Trinidad) | Painter, Designer, Musician
For Trinidad-born artist Miles Regis, every action is an opportunity for creative self-expression. Prolific in both fine art art and fashion design, Regis freely swaps the materials and languages of each to enrich the other. His large-scale mixed media paintings on canvas and linen incorporate dimensional collage elements of denim, buttons, leather, printed matter, sequins, and patches of eclectically sourced found textiles along with his dextrous, gestural, richly hued abstract and figurative painting techniques. Aggressively hopeful and humanistic, Regis embraces a storytelling stance in his stylized renditions of fundamental scenes of love, loss, freedom, survival, activism, and living history.
In addition to several promenade private collections, Regis is in the permanent collection of Intel Corporation, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, California African American Museum, and Senegal's La Musee Borindar. He has exhibited at Art Basel Miami and The Coachella Arts & Music Festival. Miles has also been featured on CNN, The Huffington Post, Extra TV and Ebony Magazine.