Kalup Linzy is a multidisciplinary artist. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and a Creative Capital Foundation Grant. His work is in the public collections at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art (New York), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). He has taught at Harvard, NYU, and SVA in NYC. Linzy has worked and collaborated with many well known artists, celebrities, and fashion designers. Among them are James Franco, Chloe Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne and Proenza Schouler. He is a Tulsa Artist Fellowship Alumni in residence and founder and director of Queen Rose Art House in Tulsa.