Miles Regis
Los Angeles, California
Regis’ art speaks of love & unity. His black & white strokes, starkly juxtaposed with complex dimensions of color, reflect our struggle, strength & triumph.
MessageMiles Regis is a Los Angeles–based multimedia artist born in Trinidad & Tobago whose practice spans visual art, music, fashion, and emerging technologies. His work explores identity, ancestry, community, and accessibility, using storytelling as a tool for connection and cultural reflection. Drawing from his Caribbean heritage and immigrant experience, Regis creates work that centers humanity, inclusion, and shared histories. Regis is known for large-scale mixed-media paintings that combine collage, text, abstraction, and figurative imagery, as well as wearable art and sound-based work. His multidisciplinary practice is informed by lifelong engagement with poetry and music, and by a commitment to addressing contemporary social issues through hopeful, humanistic narratives.
In 2025, Regis was commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to create Safe Space, a large-scale Augmented Reality (AR) art and music installation developed in collaboration with digital artist Sutu (EyeJack). The project transformed the Lincoln Center campus into a digital canvas, layering visual art, text, and original music onto the built environment. Experienced by over half a million visitors during its run, Safe Space emphasized themes of love, unity, and community. Regis worked closely with Lincoln Center’s accessibility team to record audio descriptions and participated in artist talks designed for guests who were blind or had low vision. One of his paintings was also selected for the Lincoln Center Editions Print Series.
Regis is an early adopter of AR and VR as fine art tools, creating immersive “spatial paintings” that translate his visual language into digital environments. His work often integrates sound to deepen emotional resonance and expand accessibility. Increasingly, he focuses on translating institutional-scale digital art projects into scalable art-and-technology curricula for schools and cultural organizations.
His work has been featured in a national Ford F-150 commercial campaign, and he has collaborated with organizations including Rock Against Racism, Adobe, Intel, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. His work is held in prominent public, private, and corporate collections, including the California African American Museum (Los Angeles, CA); The Bunker Artspace (West Palm Beach, FL); the North Dakota Museum of Art; the City of Buena Park Council Chambers (Buena Park, CA); PAMA Peel Art Gallery Museum (Canada); the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture (Washington, DC); and Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA). His work is also collected by notable cultural leaders and figures including Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance, Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Halle Berry, Mariah Carey, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Cuban, Jesse Williams, Kerry Washington, D-Nice, Iyanla Vanzant, Spike Lee, Russell Westbrook, Shaquille O’Neal, CCH Pounder, Kevin “Coach K” Lee, Ron Perlman, Isaiah Washington, David Janollari, Anthony Anderson, and Craig Robinson.
Regis’s gallery representation includes Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles and Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York.
Statement
I believe my paintings to be spiritual expressions anchored in a strong sense of ancestral connection. It is my hope that my creations allow the viewer to experience something individual and distinctive. My intent is to foster dialogue on subject matter such as social injustice, race, gender equality and environment change. This is how I embrace the role of art activist.
Ultimately my work is an exploration of different cultural and socio-political experiences, moving us as a human race towards acceptance of our many differences.
My expressions celebrate life: joy, pain, and peace within the challenges and turmoil of our day-to-day life experiences. The universal themes of love, family and community always prevail in my messaging. My work represents both a celebration of and a triumph of our truth.
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