--- description: Titus Kaphar is an American artist whose work examines the history of representation title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Titus Kaphar ## Titus Kaphar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Titus Kaphar is an American artist whose work [examines the history of representation ](https://kapharstudio.com/about/) ## Titus Kaphar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jun 4, 2020 ### ['I Cannot Sell You This Painting.' Titus Kaphar on his George Floyd TIME Cover](https://time.com/5847487/george-floyd-time-cover-titus-kaphar/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/titus-kaphar/","name":"Titus Kaphar"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/titus-kaphar/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/titus-kaphar/"},"name":"Titus Kaphar","jobTitle":null,"description":"Titus Kaphar is an American artist whose work examines the history of representation","url":"https://time.com/author/titus-kaphar/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```