Kent Twitchell (born August 17, 1942, Lansing, Michigan) is an American muralist who is most active in Los Angeles.

He joined the United States Air Force right out of high school at age 17 and was stationed in London, England.

In 1997, the muralist was brought in to create two large mural portraits on the wall of the California Theatre of the Performing Arts in San Bernardino.

He painted Rogers from the waist-up on the building's east and west facing exteriors, using the 1928 theater's towering flyspace.

VARA and CAPA forbid desecration, alteration, or destruction of certain public works of art without prior notice to the artist to allow for removal.

The exhibition included sketches, photos and drawings for "lost" murals, as well as one that was completed but never installed or shown to the public: Segments of his 100-foot-tall (30 m), 60-foot-wide (18 m) portrait of Michael Jackson, that Jackson had commissioned Twitchell to do in 1990 for the side of the former Barker Bros. building in Hollywood, now the El Capitan Theatre, and also in the show was a repaint of his 1971 2-story mural of Steve McQueen.

Michael Jackson worked closely with Twitchell for three years on the Smooth Criminal Mural project.

In 2017, Twitchell repainted of his Ed Ruscha monument, which is now permanently on The Historic American Hotel in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles.

His son, artist Artie Twitchell assists him on all his projects and has been working with him on installing and restoring all of his murals.