Haylie Jimenez was born in Orlando, FL but spent most of her adolescence in rural north Georgia along with her twin. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in May 2020. Her work depicts/centers around black and brown queer femmes, either in normal everyday settings based from her…
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Jason Wallace
Jason Wallace’s art practice centers on public policy and its impact on social strata, structures, and our collective vision, not merely in the physical sense but within the context of cognition and perception. Recalling Roland Barthes’ notion that “the birth of the reader must be required by the death of the author,” Wallace’s work catalyzes…
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Autumn Breon
Autumn Breon is a multidisciplinary artist that investigates the visual vocabulary of liberation through a queer Black feminist lens. Using performance, sculpture, and public installation, Breon invites audiences to examine intersectional identities and Diasporic memory. An exercise in radical spectacle, her 2022 performance (Don’t) Use Me, was the culmination of the artist’s qualitative examination of…
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Jeffrey Kent
Jeffrey Kent is an American multidisciplinary artist and curator whose life’s work embodies healing and wellness through creativity in art making, mentorship, and stewardship. His artwork is conceptual, informed by the historical and the personal, inextricably linked. He utilizes the medium best suited for the subject and temperament of the discussion he is creating. Sculpture…
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JOCELYN AKWABA-MATIGNON
Artist Painter living in Guadeloupe, born in 1961, titular of the Higher National Diploma of Visual Art, Jocelyn Akwaba Matignon researches the multiple facets of his origins. His triangular course (Europe-Africa-America) is a quest of the Being, a research, and a permanent questioning of the magic of the world and the mystery of life. Jocelyn…
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Woodrow Nash
“African Nouveau” is the term Nash uses to describe his present body of work. It’s specifically African and European in influence. While the images are African in general, the concept is 15th-century Benin with the graceful, slender proportions and long undulating lines of 18th-century Art Nouveau. In his pieces, Nash achieves his goal of integrating…
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Sandrine Plante
Sandrine Plante is a French sculptor born in 1974 in Clermont-Ferrand. On her father’s side, she is from Reunion Island. Sandrine studied art history in Auvergne, France before perfecting her sculpture techniques at Jean Chauchard Atelier, Roma, Italy, the School of Volvic stone carving and Architecture of Puy de Dome, France, and Gigi Guadagnucci Massa Atelier,…
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Coralina Rodriguez Meyer
Born in a car in an Everglades swamp, raised Tinkuy (queer) & Ital between Homestead FL, and the Caribbean, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer is a mixed race, indigenous Andinx Latinx (Muisca/Inca) Quipucamayoc artist based in Miami and Brooklyn. Spanning 20 years and 30 countries, she works across disciplines including community organizing, documentary sculpture, architecture, archives, and…
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Adejoke Aderonke Tugbiyele
Adejoke Aderonke Tugbiyele is a queer, Nigerian-American artist, architect, educator and advocate. Her practice explores queer Yoruba aesthetics thus challenging homophobia and standing in solidarity with the notion that “Queer Love is Not UnAfrican!” Tugbiyele’s work reveals how Yoruba philosophy and indigenous aesthetics contribute to Western thought, as successfully found within applications of Buddhist and…