Honor Titus / Paintings
Honor Titus is an American artist exploring memory, intimacy, and social ritual through figurative painting.
Sock Hop, 2020
Oil on Canvas
72 x 48 in. / 182.9 x 121.9 cm
Honor Titus with Louis Malle Practice, 2025
Queens Museum, New York
Presented by the Queens Museum with The Armory Show and Gagosian on the occasion of the US Open.
Summer at Dodge Hall, 2021
Oil on Canvas
60 x 72 in. / 152.4 x 182.9 cm
Toiletries of A Sociopath
Many a man
drowned
in the viscous spittle
of groomed & starched leaders
Many a man
removed
for various atrocities
watching themselves dilute
in an overbearing seclusion
Oh, some things are worse than Death!
living vicariously through written letter
Many a man
hope
to allude divinities
certainty
does the sharp edge of the gleaming blade
caress the nape of any neck?
long, harsh steps to the city center
for a judgment matinee
Charismatic murderers find respite
in the definitive pessimism
that is atheism
Stout and enduring men
have their strong, rigid
cheekbones pressed against
the knee of a deity
Hidden, I
pirouette among the linden trees
on the promenade.
— Honor Titus (2016)
Self-Portrait, 2021
Oil on Canvas
72 1/4 x 48 in. / 183.1 x 129.9 cm
Exhibitions and projects
Royal Collection: portrait of Delisser Bernard
Advantage In, Gagosian (2023)
For Heaven’s Sake, Timothy Taylor (2021)
Goodness Gracious, Henry Taylor Studio (2020)
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