Kevin Beasley (born 1985 Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American artist working in sculpture, performance art, and sound installation.
[4] Beasley created a site-specific installation consisting of several sculptures with embedded microphones to pick up the ambient signs of the Biennial and its visitors.
Beasley was also included in the Museum of Modern Art's 2014-15 exhibition Cut to Swipe, which focused on electronic and new media works.
The exhibition features an immersive installation that centers around a cotton gin motor from Maplesville, Alabama and the history of his family's land in the American South.
[15] Over the course of his 2018-2019 solo exhibition, "A view of a landscape" at the Whitney Museum,[16] Beasley features live performances with: Taja Cheek,[17][18] Eli Keszler,[19][20] Jlin, and himself.
The cotton gin serves an instrument in the performances, where artists are able to manipulate and process its sounds into live compositions.