Stan Squirewell

Stan Squirewell questions established historical narratives in his paintings, photographs, performances, and installations that tackle issues of race, memory, and mythology. A graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Squirewell studied informally with Michael Platt and Lou Stovall before pursuing his MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he studied under Grace Hartigan. He has performed with Nick Cave at the National Portrait Gallery, and his works are held by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Robert Steele Collection, and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture. Squirewell remixes materials from a personal collection of thousands of images amassed over many years, using them in collages like Cherokee (2020) that illustrate ambiguity and the absence of a single overarching identity.