Arnold Joseph Kemp is an artist, writer, and curator. He is currently the chair of the Painting and Print Media Department at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. Kemp is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Artadia Fund for Art & Dialogue, the Art Matters Grant, and the Printed Matter Award for Artists. He is guest faculty of the Visual Arts residency program “In Kind” Negotiations with Raymond Boisjoly.