Miles Regis

Better Days Ahead

January 8th to March 5th, 2022

Opening reception: Saturday, January 8th, 12 – 7 pm

Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition by Trinidad born artist Miles Regis.

Miles Regis is known for his intricate mixed media paintings which often fuse image with text, making

astute social and cultural commentary. His visual narrative is firmly based in the rich tradition and

evolution of masquerades in his native Trinidad. Regis’s work is an emotional response to his life as a

Black immigrant in America of 31 years. He has been painting commentary on race relations with a

positive and unifying message his entire career.

Regis grew up in a large artistic family, which nurtured his creativity. He excelled at painting, singing and

writing. After a fledgling music career in Trinidad, he moved to L.A. where he began his studies at USC in

1989. His creativity soared in this new environment which lead him to pick up painting again. Music is

still a significant part of his creative process today. Poems and one-liners inspired by every day events

incite his paintings. Regis’s canvases are a dynamic visual narrative that transforms the pain and

ugliness of our contemporary world into an idiosyncratic beauty.

“It’s easy to compare noteworthy contemporary artists to those who’ve gone before. In the case of Miles

Regis, a Trinidadian-born multi-media artist based in Los Angeles, that associative list is undeniably

impressive: Basquiat, Gaugin, Pollock, Dali and Rivera to name a few. But Regis did not learn his craft

studying the Masters of Art History. Regis began organically, in the influences of his childhood in the

Caribbean – of Carnival and calypso – and from watching Caribbean artists like his uncle, Alexander

King.” - Flavia Colgan, ‘HuffPost’

Miles Regis has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums such as the California African American

Museum, the Peel Art Gallery in Ontario and the Santa Monica Museum. His work is in public collections

such as the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History, the Californian African American

Museum, the Intel Corporation and other notable collections such as Halle Berry, Mariah Carey, Spike

Lee and Russell Westbrook to name a few. Regis lives and works in Los Angeles with his wife and kids.

For additional information or visual material, please contact the gallery by email at gallery@vonlintel.com