The work of Hasaan Kirkland authenticated by his signature, simply as “Hasaan” has been described as a visual editorial filled with layers of cerebral stimulation on Black Culture and American History.  The arc of his work ranges from pallet knife constructed paintings that reflect the ancestral past of African sculpture blended with cubism and abstract identity— through visual texture and design compositions of collage and portraiture paintings.  His work has been influenced by Romare Bearden, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lois Mae Lou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, and Ernie Barnes.  

Kirkland is a recipient of the 2020 Washington State Black Lives Matter Artist Award, 2019 Redmond City Lights Public Artist Bootcamp Award, 2018 ArtPop Street Gallery, he was selected as the 2017 Belk Corporation Artist for the Award of Excellence and he was the 2017 key speaker of Creative Mornings in Charlotte, NC with an address titled “What is your Weird Super Power”.  Kirkland's visual art traverses between traditional fine art [painting-drawing], to murals, illustration and digital art.  In his work one can find visual displays of surrealism, abstract expressive figurative work, to compositions of colors, lines and non-objective content.

Kirkland the CEO of his own creative business Kairos Industry (EAC) LLC is centered in education, art, and culture. His artmaking, educating, and curation are driven by a fascination with visual literacy, intellectual creativity, wit, wisdom and the need for creative and social equity. Kirkland desires for his audience, client, community, and stakeholders is to recognize the universal power of experience found in art as a bridge of experience and human expression. The relationship is one bound with critical consciousness, and the courage to put one’s vulnerability into the space of interpretation and connection— Art is ostensibly the creative permutations that confounds and ignites our imagination, it is the riddle of human connection, and it is the lock of expression we pick for creative freedom.