Ted Kincaid has spent more than three decades challenging the boundaries between painting and photography. His work blurs the line between the fantastical and the precise: photographs that feel like paintings, and paintings that feel like photographs. In doing so, he questions not just the act of making art, but the very ways we see and understand the world.
A restless explorer of process, Kincaid moves easily between photographic techniques, hand drawing, printmaking, ceramic murals, and digital work. His subject matter draws widely from the world around him: poetry, politics, death, sexuality, humor, climate change, and the raw power of nature are all woven into his images.
Kincaid has long engaged with public art, creating works that integrate communities, architecture, and civic space. Notable pre-2020 commissions include a large-scale site-specific work for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s new international terminal; 588 woodcuts and two large-scale works for the Hilton Hotel/Magnolia Lodging luxury residence hotel in Plano; a 22-foot by 14-foot canvas for the Omni Hotel Corporation in Dallas; and a 25-foot by 46-foot ceramic tile wall mural for the Cypress Waters office lobby with the Billingsley Company. In 2020, he co-founded Anderson+Kincaid with Scott Anderson, a collaborative partnership that extends beyond the studio to include video, sound, installation, and performance. Their projects push beyond conventional exhibition formats and engage audiences in immersive, emotionally charged experiences. Recent work includes installations at One Arts Plaza in Dallas, The Commodore Perry Estate / Auberge Resorts in Austin, Oak Lawn Place, and the Resource Center’s new health and social services campus.
Widely recognized as one of North Texas’ most respected contemporary artists, Kincaid’s work has been reviewed in ARTFORUM and is included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, San Antonio, Columbus Museum, L’Associazione Fotografica Imago in Arezzo, Italy, and the Georgia Museum of Art, where he had his first solo museum exhibition in 2018. His work also appears in major corporate and foundation collections, including American Airlines, Microsoft, Canon, Toyota, Fidelity, JP Morgan Chase, Pfizer, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the Perot Foundation, and the U.S. State Department.
Kincaid’s practice is defined by both technical mastery and a radical curiosity that challenges assumptions about art and perception. Each work, painted, photographed, or digitally composed, explores the space between intellect and emotion, asking viewers to reconsider what they accept as truth, beauty, and meaning. His art balances rigor with vulnerability, showing that experimentation, risk, and empathy can coexist. Across decades and disciplines, Kincaid’s work embodies a rare clarity: precise yet radical, rigorous yet profoundly human.