Kevin Lincoln was born in Battery Point, Hobart in 1941 and moved to Melbourne in the 1960s, where he has lived and worked ever since.

Lincoln has been described as Australia's most introverted and underrated artists by art critic John McDonald.

[1] Despite his introverted nature, Lincoln is widely admired for his still lifes, self-portraits and etchings, all of which embody a sense of restraint and austerity.

Recurring themes throughout his work have included age, mortality and the solitary figure.

[3] though was sometimes regarded as provocative; in 1969 his drawing of a naked figure both eating and defecating smaller figures [with] the caption "Don't get caught up in the system,'"[4] was seized from Jill Jolliffe's Alice's Restaurant Bookshop in Greville Street, Prahran.