Roscoe Hall is an artist—creative and culinary—with an M.F.A. in Art History from Savannah College of Art and Design. A truth-teller in pigment, Hall works across media from food to paint and beyond to call into question, and challenge, previously unexamined histories of place, race, and space. Hall’s works nod toward his artistic predecessors—Romare Bearden, Kara Walker, Purvis Young, and more—in fractured narratives of identity, moments of unexplored history, and tales of mortality. Relevant and irreverent, Hall’s paintings are freeze-frame, front page illustrations of personal reflection, they are confronting without necessarily being confrontational. They’re referential as much as they are reverential. And they’re clearly meditations on his Black experience.

Roscoe Hall is a painter living and working in Birmingham, Alabama. He received his B.F.A. in photography from the University of San Diego and his M.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Hall’s works have been exhibited the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, Savannah, GA; Graeter Art Gallery, Portland, OR; Lowe Mill Gallery, Huntsville, AL; the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA), Birmingham, AL; and the Dallas Art Fair (2021, 2022). In 2022, Hall was awarded the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant for painting. Roscoe Hall is currently represented by Scott Miller Projects, in Birmingham, Alabama.