Kamau Patton is a Bay Area-based video, sound and performance artist, whose work uses and often reassembles traditional African imagery and costume in order to explore the formation of modern mythology, African-American identity, and popular culture. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Sociology. He received his MFA from Stanford University, Spring 2007. Patton has exhibited his work in solo shows in Los Angeles at Machine Project, in San Francisco at Queens Nails Annex and at Tilton Gallery in New York.  Patton has also worked collaboratively on artists’ projects at the MoMA in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.