Ken Wright is an artist whose work reflects both discipline and lyricism. Highly attentive to tools, structure, and precision, he creates stained and fused glass mosaics that feel unexpectedly fluid and painterly. Eschewing gentle pastels in favor of a bold, brilliant palette, Wright’s glass images are urban, figurative, ancestral, and narrative, carrying both visual force and cultural resonance. By selecting and cutting glass with unusual sensitivity, he transforms a demanding medium into one that moves with the grace and rhythm of painting.

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A native of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Wright first worked in photography before turning to glass as his primary medium. His exhibition history includes Rush Arts, Philadelphia and New York City; Akwaaba Gallery, Newark, New Jersey; MoCADA, Brooklyn; Kenkeleba, New York City; Hamilton Art Gallery, Harlem; Parrish Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and the Skylight Gallery at the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.

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Wright’s work is also recognized in print, including in Brooklyn on My Mind: Black Visual Artists from the WPA to the Present. Among his collectors are NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston, the Honorable Randy Jackson, Dr. Cynthia Barnes, and Danny Simmons. An active member of the National Conference of Artists and Black Art In America, Wright is also a noted conversationalist and master framer whose work supports many distinguished African American artists in New York City.

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