Kahlil Robert Irving (b. 1992, San Diego, CA) is an artist currently living and working in Saint Louis. He attended the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art, Washington University in St. Louis (MFA Fellow, 2017); and the Kansas City Art Institute (BFA, Art History and Ceramics/Sculpture, 2015). Recently, Irving presented a major commission by MOCA LA/The Brick for Monuments, an exhibition curated by Hamza Walker, Bennet Simpson, and Kara Walker. In the last few years Irving’s work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; the Kemper Art Museum, Missouri; the Walker Art Center, Minnesota, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, among many others. Irving also participated in the 2022 New Museum Triennial entitled “Soft Water, Hard Stone”, co-curated by Jamillah James and Margot Norton.

Recently, Irving was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant (2019), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2020), and the United States Artist Fellowship (2025). In 2021, Irving’s first museum solo exhibition took place at the Museum of Modern Art, a part of the Studio Museum in Harlem museum partnership. Currently, he is presenting a large-scale commission in the lobby at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Irving's work is also featured in a newly commissioned exhibition at the University of Alabama, Birmingham in the fall of 2026.

His work is in the collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; the RISD Museum Rhode Island; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.