Darrell McKinney is a Washington-based interdisciplinary artist. His practice explores the intersections across design, art, and architecture. The work speaks to how design can be utilized to explore the complexities of politics, race, and social infrastructure through the interconnectedness of history, people, and places.

He received a Master of Design from the School of the Art institute of Chicago. His work has been featured in exhibitions at EXPO (Chicago), then internationally at Salone Del Mobile (Milan), Spazio Rossana Orlandi, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. He has been featured at the Tacoma Art Museum as the inaugural recipient of The Current, An Artist Award (2022). He was also the recipient of awards such as the Greg Kucera & Larry Yocom Fellowship Award (2022), A Tale of Today Emerging Artist Fellowship for the Richard H. Driehaus Museum (2019), and the Hilltop Lasting Legacy Fellowship (2020).