Don Kilpatrick III moved to Detroit in 2007 to begin his career at the College for Creative Studies as a faculty member in the Illustration Department of which he has been the department chair since 2010.
Kilpatrick’s work has been featured in publications such as Fortune, the L.A. Times, Nautilus magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. His illustration can be found on the Olympic medal for the XIX Winter Games in Salt Lake City. His work can be found in the form of a series of large-scale murals on the recently built Little Caesar’s Arena in Detroit.
Additionally, he has exhibited his artwork in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Tokyo, and Miami. He has regularly shown his work in both group and solo gallery shows, and in January 2019 at M Contemporary gallery in Ferndale, Michigan. This recent show included prints, woodcuts, paintings, and a collaboration with renowned bespoke shoemaker and artist Noriyuki Misawa.