Damon Locks
Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in fine arts. Since 2014 he has been working with the Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project at Stateville Correctional Center teaching art. He is a 2025 recipient of the Creative Capital Award. In 2017 he became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. He received an Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts in 2015. In 2019, he became a 3Arts Awardee. He spent 4 years as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts’ SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy High School. He teaches Improvisation in the Sound Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Damon leads the Black Monument Ensemble, is a member of New Future City Radio, Exploding Star Orchestra and co-founded the band The Eternals.
Profile caption: Damon at his solo art show, We Are Our People/Listen to This Profile image by: photo by Sara Pooley
Distortion (2025), Damon Locks
Pencil, ink, acrylic, xerox, tracing paper on wood panel 36 x 48 inches 91.4 x 121.9 cm
Featured Artworks
Danger, Danger, Danger! (2025), Damon Locks
Pencil, ink, tracing paper, metallic tape 22 1/4 x 29 inches 56.5 x 73.7 cm
Mystic Determination (2025), Damon Locks
Pencil, ink, acrylic, xerox, tracing paper on wood panel 30 x 40 inches 76.2 x 101.6 cm
This Is Our List of Demands (2022), Damon Locks
18" X 12" ink on paper and tracing paper
Darker! Darker! (2024), Damon Locks
Pencil, ink, acrylic, xerox, tracing paper on wood panel 36 x 48 inches 91.4 x 121.9 cm
Freedom in this Lifetime (2022), Damon Locks
18"X12" ink on paper w/tracing paper
Kredelle (2021), Damon Locks
digital print
List of Demands album (2025)
This is the package for the newest Damon Locks solo album including a booklet and a poster, Artist Constitution created at Stateville Correctional Center by incarcerated artists.