Artwork by Kalen Na’il Roach

Born in 1992, Kalen Na’il Roach is an artist/photographer living and working in Maryland, USA. He graduated with his B.F.A. in Creative Photography from St. John’s University in 2014 and is an alumnus of the International Center of Photography’s One-Year General Studies Program. Using photography, drawing, painting, video, and installation he is interested the idea of surface and how that relates to things such as everyday life, systems, relationships, and family archive. He is actively questioning these surfaces around him (physical, metaphorical, illusionary, etc.) and is interested to see how much can be extracted from them.