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Artists are at the center of BLACK COPPER’s mission and programming. This space highlights the artists, collaborators, and creative voices featured across our publications, exhibitions, public programs, and partnerships. Designed as an evolving archive and discovery platform, the Artists page offers deeper access to the individuals and practices shaping contemporary culture through thoughtful storytelling, visual documentation, and ongoing creative dialogue.

<p class="font_8">Fawundu, Adama Delphine (b. Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York) is a visual artist, educator, and cultural organizer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her interdisciplinary practice is rooted in photography and expanded through textiles, video, sound, handmade paper, and found and organic materials. She is Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University, where she teaches darkroom courses and mentors MFA students, and is the founder of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. Fawundu's solo exhibitions include <em>Praise House</em>, currently on view at the Harvey Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture, and <em>Salt #17</em> at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. She participated in the 36th São Paulo Biennial and the inaugural Malta Biennial. Her research-based practice has engaged historic sites including the Historic Lefferts House in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, where her work deepens public understanding of the roles that Lenape peoples and people of African descent have played in the development of Brooklyn.</p>

ADAMA DELPHINE FAWUNDU

<p class="font_8">Benson, Apah (b. Warri, Delta State, Nigeria) is a self-taught visual artist working across photography, poetry, collage, and installation. His practice spans fine art, documentary, fashion, and editorial photography, with portraiture as the foundation of his visual language. He studied through the Imọ̀ra Art Intensive with the Guest Artist Space (G.A.S) Foundation and the Exploring Practice and Process workshop led by Temitayo Ogunbiyi at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos.</p>
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<p class="font_8">His work has been exhibited internationally at Art Basel Miami, Paris Photo with Kahmann Gallery, Haute Photographie Amsterdam, and The African Foto Fair. He has been shortlisted for the Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Art, was a semi-finalist for the Tilga Art Prize, and was nominated for the Siena Creative Photo Awards.</p>
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<p class="font_8">Benson curated The Inception, Africa's first Solana-based digital art exhibition, and founded a Web3 DAO that has since evolved into an art foundation supporting emerging and underrepresented African artists through funding, exhibitions, and community-driven initiatives.</p>

APAH BENSON

<p class="font_8">Cook, Chris (b. 1992, Brooklyn, New York) is a fine artist working across photography, painting, and mixed media. His monograph <em>Black Lives Matter</em> (2022) is held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the British Library, and Yale University. He documented the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, producing a sustained body of work that stands as both historical record and artistic testimony. Cook received the AIM Fellowship at the Bronx Museum in 2020 and completed a residency at the Saltonstall Foundation in 2021. His work has been featured in The Washington Post and on ABC News.</p>

CHRIS COOK

<p class="font_8">Guerra, Diana (b. 1989, Peru) is a Peruvian American lens-based artist and educator based in New York. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a Master of Fine Arts in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from the City College of New York, with early photography training at Parsons School of Design. She is currently Adjunct Faculty at the City College of New York. Guerra received the AIM Bronx Museum Fellowship and the SPCUNY Faculty Fellowship in 2024, and the En Foco Photography Fellowship in 2022. She has been an artist in residence at Hangar, Center of Artistic Research in Lisbon, Portugal, and at the Wassaic Project in Dutchess, New York.</p>
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<p class="font_8">Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, Mana Contemporary, Penumbra Foundation, Der Greif in Berlin, Photoville, The Clemente Cultural and Educational Center, PH21 Gallery in Budapest, and Espacio Cavallero in Buenos Aires, among others. Her publications include the photobook <em>Fleeting Under Light</em> (Seaton Street Press), <em>Nueva Luz</em> (En Foco Inc., curated by Marisol Diaz-Gordon), <em>On Death</em> (Kris Graves Projects & Humble Arts Foundation), and <em>Imitation of Life</em> (Loosenart, Rome).</p>

DIANA GUERRA

<p class="font_8">Yancy, Jaleeca R. (b. 1990, Memphis, Tennessee) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her practice spans abstract painting, mixed media, sculpture, and installation. Recent solo exhibitions include <em>Wrapped in Indigo</em> (2023) at West Harlem Art Fund, Governors Island; <em>Mother Nature's Daughter</em> (2022) at Urvebu Contemporary, Memphis; and <em>Pigments</em> (2021) at Bed-Stuy Art House, Brooklyn. Group exhibitions include <em>Haint Blue</em> (2025) at Equity Gallery, <em>Semi-permeable</em> (2024) at Living Skin Gallery, and <em>Black Shedding[s]</em> (2024) at The Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, Bronx.</p>
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<p class="font_8">Yancy has held residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center (2024/2025), ARCAthens (2023), and Ma's House in Southampton, New York (2023). Her public art projects include <em>Perched & Knotted</em> (2024) at Harlem Sculpture Gardens and <em>Haint Blue Waves</em> (2023) at the West Harlem Art Fund. As an educator, she has led workshops on natural dyes and sustainability at the New York Botanical Garden and The Horticultural Society of New York.</p>

JALEECA YANCY

<p class="font_8">Pinckney, JJ (b. Ohio) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. His practice spans painting, drawing, and mixed media, with a research-driven approach to reimagining Black historical figures, social movements, and political structures through a satirical contemporary lens.</p>

JJ PINCKNEY

<p class="font_8">Quiles Bonilla, Kevin (b. 1992, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working between New York and Puerto Rico. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts magna cum laude from the University of Puerto Rico (2015) and a Master of Fine Arts with honors from Parsons The New School for Design (2018). His work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Lincoln Center, and the Ford Foundation. Recent solo exhibitions include Real Art Ways, Hartford (2021); Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx (2022); and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York (2024). In 2022 he debuted his first public artwork, <em>For centuries, and still...</em>, created in collaboration with artist Zaq Landsberg and presented through NYC Parks.</p>
<p class="font_8">Quiles Bonilla has held residencies at the Arts + Disability Residency, LMCC Workspace Residency, Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, NYLAAT Residency Program, Monira Foundation Residency, and The Arts Center at Governors Island. He has been recognized as a Fellow at the En Foco Inc Photography Fellowship (2021), EmergeNYC (2021), Art Matters Artist2Artist Fellowship (2023), and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Kahn|Mason SIP Fellowship (2024). His work has been featured in Hyperallergic, The Washington Post, BOMB Magazine, and The Guardian.</p>

KEVIN QUILES BONILLA

<p class="font_8">Finéus, Laurena (b. Ottawa, Canada) is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa (2020) and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University (2024). She is the recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Fund (2023), the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2022–23), and the Saunderson Prize (2024). Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum (2025), the Hudson River Museum (2024), CCCADI (2024), Fridman Gallery (2024), G101 (2022), the Ottawa Art Gallery (2021), and Art Mûr (2019), among others.</p>

LAURENA FINÉUS

<p class="font_8">Saint-Pierre, Naderson (b. Gonayiv, Haiti) is a self-taught painter based in New York City. He began painting in 2016 and transitioned to a full-time practice after arriving in New York City, where he became known for selling work directly to collectors in subway stations and Washington Square Park. His career has been marked by exhibitions and residencies across New York City and internationally, including residencies in the South of France, Paris, Amsterdam, and South Korea.</p>

NADERSON SAINT-PIERRE

<p class="font_8">Saunders, Simone Elizabeth (b. Canada) is a textile artist based in Moh'kinstsis (Calgary, Canada). She holds two Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees — one in Performance from the University of Alberta and one in Fibre with distinction from Alberta University of the Arts. In 2023 she received the Calgary Black Chambers Achievement Award recognizing her work in highlighting and advancing Black and societal issues through the arts. Recent exhibitions include the Art Gallery of Alberta, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem, SCOPE and LOOP Miami, Expo Chicago, the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London, the Textile Museum of Canada, Contemporary Calgary, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Mint Museum in North Carolina, and ArtsWestchester in New York.</p>

SIMONE ELIZABETH SAUNDERS

<p class="font_8">Camargo, William (b. 1989, Anaheim, California) is a photo-based artist, educator, and arts advocate based in Anaheim, California. He holds a BFA from California State University, Fullerton, and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. He is currently a lecturer in photography at the University of California San Diego and chair of Anaheim's Heritage and Culture Commission. He is the founder and curator of Latinx Diaspora Archives, an archive Instagram page that elevates communities of color through family photos.</p>
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<p class="font_8">His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum, the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, and the Wright Museum of Art at Beloit College, among others. His work has been exhibited at the Hessel Museum of Art, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami, Princeton University Art Museum, and The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture. Residencies include the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Light Work, Penumbra Foundation, the Latinx Project at New York University, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image. His work has been featured in BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, and PBS KCET.</p>

WILLIAM CAMARGO

<p class="font_8">Otega, Aghogho (b. 1994, Warri, Nigeria) is a multidisciplinary artist, documentary photographer, and filmmaker based in Ughelli, Nigeria. His practice engages indigenous cultural landscapes, spiritual belief, identity, environment, and contemporary social life, working across photography, video, and performance. Otega studied Fine Arts Education at Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State. He was a resident artist at Rele Gallery, Lagos in 2020. His work has been exhibited at Rele Gallery, Lagos; 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair; SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles; and Lagos Photo Festival. He has participated in the Young Contemporary Bootcamp 2020 Virtual Exhibition and Young Contemporaries 2021 at Rele Gallery, Lagos. Otega has been featured in discussions with Tate Modern, UK, H Factor, and Treehouse Lagos.</p>

AGHOGHO OTEGA

<p class="font_8">Harris, Carla Jay (b. Indianapolis, Indiana) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Media Studies from the University of Virginia and a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the California African American Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, the Fisher Museum of Art at the University of Southern California, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, the Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts, the Escalette Permanent Collection at Chapman University, and the Los Angeles County Public Art Collection, among others. She is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.</p>
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<p class="font_8">Harris has presented solo exhibitions at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Gallery 310 at the University of Marietta, and Launch LA, and has received public art commissions for the Los Angeles Metro, Magic Johnson Community Center, and the City of Pasadena. Her work has been exhibited at the Houston Museum of African American Art, the California African American Museum, the Spartanburg Museum of Art, the Lancaster Museum of Fine Art, the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec City, among others. She participated in The Armory Show in 2021, curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, Oxford American, and Artsy. She has been awarded residencies from Facebook, Inc. and ACRE, and has received grants from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Pasadena Art Alliance.</p>

CARLA JAY HARRIS

<p class="font_8">Martin, Delita (b. 1972, Conroe, Texas) is an artist and activist based in Huffman, Texas. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing from Texas Southern University and a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Purdue University. She previously taught drawing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and in 2020 founded the Black Box Press Foundation, dedicated to supporting artists whose work inspires activism and social change. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Crystal Bridges Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the David Driskell Center, the Library of Congress, the Bradbury Art Museum, the Gorman Museum, and Rice Public Art, among others. She served as the 2020 Keynote Speaker for the Mid America Print Council.</p>

DELITA MARTIN

<p class="font_8">Hassan, Fathi (b. 1957, Cairo, Egypt) is a Nubian artist of Egyptian-Sudanese descent based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s forced his family to abandon their village in the Nubian desert and relocate to Cairo — an event that marks the origin of his diasporic experience and the foundation of his artistic practice. He is a pioneer and the first African diaspora artist to exhibit outside the national pavilions at the 43rd Venice Biennale in 1988.</p>
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<p class="font_8">Over a career spanning more than four decades, Hassan has participated in major international exhibitions including the Sharjah Biennial 15, the 9th Cairo International Biennial, and solo exhibitions at the Clark Museum in Atlanta, the Williams Museum of Art in Massachusetts, and Richard Saltoun Gallery in London, among many others. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sharjah Art Foundation, the Barjeel Foundation, the Stanford Museum, and the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection in Berlin, among others. He has been included in major surveys including <em>African Artists: From 1882 to Now</em> (Phaidon, 2021) and <em>Lumières Africaines</em> (Langages du Sud, 2018).</p>

FATHI HASSAN

<p class="font_8">Richmond-Edwards, Jamea (b. Detroit, Michigan) is a painter based in Detroit, Michigan. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Jackson State University and a Master of Fine Arts from Howard University (2012), where her practice was shaped by the aesthetics of Africobra. In 2019 she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, leading to a residency in 2020.</p>
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<p class="font_8">Solo exhibitions include <em>Ancient Future</em> at MOCA North Miami (2023); <em>Currency</em> at Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, and Library Street Collective, Detroit (2022); <em>Twenty Twenty</em> at the South Bend Museum of Art (2020); and a forthcoming exhibition at the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, New York (2025). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Phillips Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, the California African American Museum, the Frist Art Museum, the Rubell Family Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. Her work has also traveled in the exhibitions <em>Multiplicity: Collage in Contemporary America</em> and <em>A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration</em>.</p>

JAMEA RICHMOND EDWARDS

<p class="font_8">Carter, Kennedi (b. 1998, Charlottesville, Virginia) is a visual artist and photographer based in the American South. She is represented by ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica. Her fine art has been acquired by the Rhode Island School of Design, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Wilson Centre for Photography in London, among others. Her work has been exhibited at the RISD Museum (2022), the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (2024), Saatchi Gallery (2024), and the Harwood Museum of Art (2022). In 2020, Carter was tapped by British Vogue Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful to photograph Beyoncé for the magazine's cover, becoming the youngest cover photographer in the publication's history. Her editorial clients include British Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Essence, Google, and Apple. She has been recognized by AT&T's Black Future Makers (2022), The Root's Future 25 (2021), Adweek's Creative 100 (2021), the New York Times as a Top 4 Next Great Image Maker (2021), and the British Journal of Photography's Ones to Watch (2020). She is the grand prize winner of the Hariban Award.</p>

KENNEDI CARTER

<p class="font_8">David, King (b. Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York) is an abstract artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors in Studio Art from Gettysburg College, where he also studied at the Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing in Aix-en-Provence, France. His early education was supported by Prep for Prep, a nonprofit program that provided scholarship access to The Dalton School. He has worked from his Brooklyn studio since 2018, expanding his practice across painting, drawing, watercolor, sculpture, and photography.</p>

KING DAVID

<p class="font_8">Lyon, Marley (b. United States) is a large-scale metal and sound artist based in New York, Detroit, and Chicago. They are currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their work has been exhibited at Artbash SAIC, MagandMan, Artistry Unbound 2, and Pointe Blank Gallery.</p>

MARLEY LYON

<p class="font_8">Blas, Nydia (b. 1981, Ithaca, New York) is a visual artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Ithaca College and a Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College in Atlanta. She is a 2026 recipient of the Creative Capital State of the Art Prize in Visual Arts. Her work has been commissioned by The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and Time Magazine, among others. She has completed residencies at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Villa Albertine in Marseille, France.</p>

NYDIA BLAS

<p class="font_8">Dougé, Tasha (b. 1981, Queens, New York) is a conceptual visual and performance artist, activist, photographer, and cultural vigilante based in the Bronx, New York. Self-taught, her practice spans installation, performance, photography, and object-making. Her work has been exhibited at The Andrew Freedman Home, the Apollo Theater, Rush Arts Gallery in Philadelphia, BronxArtSpace, The Shed, the RISD Museum, and the Hygiene Museum in Dresden, Germany, among others. She has been featured in Sugarcane Magazine, Essence, and The New York Times.</p>
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<p class="font_8">Dougé is an alumna of the Laundromat Project's Create Change Fellowship, the Studio Museum of Harlem's Museum Education Program, Haiti Cultural Exchange's Lakou Nou Residency, and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute's Innovative Cultural Advocacy Program and inaugural Digital Emerging Artist Retreat. She serves as part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design at The New School and second faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.</p>

TASHA DOUGE

<p class="font_8">Mqeku, Zanoxolo Sylvestre (b. Mount Fletcher, Eastern Cape, South Africa) is a ceramic artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a Diploma in Ceramic Design, a B-Tech in Fine Art from Tshwane University of Technology — where his focus included sand cast ceramics, art theory, and critical writing — and a Master's degree in Design and Studio Art with a major in sand cast ceramics, incorporating fabrication technologies, CAD, and public creative practice, from the Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein (2024). He was formerly employed at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein. His work has been exhibited through State of the Art Gallery, Cape Town.</p>

ZANOXOLO SYLVESTRE MQEKU

<p class="font_8">John, Akindele (b. Lagos, Nigeria) is a figurative painter and Black Metaphoric artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. His practice centers on people from Africa and the African diaspora, working across charcoal, liquid acrylic, and painting to render subjects in vibrant, expressive color. He has developed an international exhibition practice as a full-time studio artist.</p>

AKINDELE JOHN

<p class="font_8">Mojica Martinez, Carmen (b. 1956, South Bronx, New York) is a photographer whose practice spans nearly five decades of documentation rooted in the South Bronx and the broader landscapes of New York City. Working from analog beginnings through her current exploration of digital media, she has built a sustained visual archive of Latino life, urban resilience, and the layered realities of a neighborhood in continuous transformation. She is a member of Seis del Sur, a collective that chronicles Latino life in the Bronx.</p>

CARMEN MOJICA

<p class="font_8">Holland, Derek Anthony (b. Montgomery, AL) is an artist and researcher based in New York, raised between the suburbs of Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA. They hold a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from the University of Maryland College Park, a Master of Public Health from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where they were a Black Midwest Initiative Fellow and Access to Excellence Fellow. Prior to their artistic practice, Holland worked as a Research Manager in the public health sector, contributing to peer-reviewed scholarship published in the Journal of Urban Health, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and the Journal of Healthy Eating and Active Living. Their work has been featured in Hyperallergic and discussed across panels and podcasts bridging public health and visual arts. Holland has exhibited and performed at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Blanc Gallery in Chicago, Soho House Chicago, and Southside Contemporary in Richmond, Virginia. They have held residencies and presented performances with the New York Arts Program, Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin, and Pagoda Imaginaria in Guatemala City.</p>

DEREK ANTHONY HOLLAND

<p class="font_8">Davis-Marks, Isis (b. 1997, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and writer based in New York City. Her visual work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Yale School of Art, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, the Prizm Art Fair, and La Loma Projects, and featured in the Nation. She is a member of UNDERDONK, an artist collective based in Manhattan.</p>
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<p class="font_8">As a writer, Davis-Marks covers contemporary art with a focus on representation and visual culture, drawing from philosophical and art historical texts. Her articles have been published in Smithsonian Magazine, Cultured Magazine, Frieze, the Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, Artsy, Phillips Auctions, and Communication Arts, among others, and have been referenced in the New York Times. She serves on the board of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art.</p>

ISIS DAVIS-MARKS

<p class="font_8">Thomas-Girvan, Jasmine (b. 1961, Jamaica) is a sculptor based in Trinidad. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in New York, where she received the Tiffany Honor Award for Excellence. Her awards include the Commonwealth Foundation Arts Award (1996), the Silver Musgrave Medal of the Institute of Jamaica (2014), and the National Gallery of Jamaica's Aaron Matalon Award (2012 and 2017), presented to the artist making the most outstanding contribution to the Jamaica Biennial. She has completed public commissions including a work presented to the Queen of England. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Jamaica, Trinidad, Venezuela, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.</p>

JASMINE THOMAS GIRVAN

<p class="font_8">Claiborne, Kevin (b. 1989, Washington, D.C.) is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist based in Harlem, New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from North Carolina Central University, a Master of Science in Higher Education from Syracuse University, and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Columbia University. His work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia.</p>
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<p class="font_8">Claiborne has had solo exhibitions at Sean Horton (Presents), OSMOS, and Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York; The Print Center in Philadelphia; Public Service in Stockholm; and Sobering Galerie in Paris. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Lower East Side Printshop, Latchkey Gallery, The Clemente Center, Swivel Gallery, Phillips, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York; CulturalDC in Washington, D.C.; and the Architectural Ecologies Lab at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His work has been featured in Artsy, OSMOS Magazine, Cultured Magazine, foam Magazine, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others.</p>

KEVIN CLAIBORNE

<p class="font_8">Henke, Kipkemoi (b. Germany) is a self-taught painter based in Los Angeles, California. Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, his transcontinental upbringing across Germany, Kenya, and the United States informs a practice rooted in questions of identity and belonging. He was selected as artist-in-residence at the Libra Foundation (2020), contributed to the LA Lakers In the Paint program (2023), received the Billboard Creative Award (2024), and earned the New Futures Award at The Other Art Fair (2025). His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Martha's Vineyard, and most prominently sold at Sotheby's Los Angeles in 2025. His work has been presented in both gallery and nontraditional cultural spaces.</p>

KIPKEMOI HENKE

<p class="font_8">Nwadike, Mayowa (b. Nigeria) is a self-taught mixed-media artist based in New York City. Working primarily with charcoal and acrylic, his practice explores identity, gender roles, spirituality, and migration. His work has been exhibited at the Whatcom Museum in Washington, the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago, and the African American Museum in Dallas. In 2025, Nwadike was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Art & Style.</p>

MAYOWA NWADIKE

<p class="font_8">Teodros, Ruwan (b. 1996) is a Lebanese-Ethiopian writer and photographer based between Beirut and New York City. Working across analogue and digital photography, her practice documents the quiet poetry of Beirut — its stillness, its contradictions, and the deeply human aspects of Arab existence. Her film photography has been exhibited at Takeover, a Beirut-based art collective, and her work has appeared in The Public Source, Observer, and Al-Rawiya.</p>

RUWAN TEODROS

<p class="font_8">Maela, Tsoku (b. South Africa) is an interdisciplinary autoethnographer based in South Africa, working across photography, digital, and motion picture mediums. He rose to prominence with his widely documented self-portraiture series <em>Abstract Peaces</em>, which studied mental illness at different states — challenging stigmas surrounding issues of the mind. He was named City Press Photographer of the Year in 2016, shortlisted for the CAP Prize (Contemporary African Photography Prize) in both 2017 and 2019, and awarded the Pitroda Arts Movement: Art for Social Change Award in 2021.</p>
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<p class="font_8">His work has been exhibited at 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair, Lagos Photo Festival, AKAA (Also Known as Africa), PULSE Art Fair, and Africa Foto Fair. The interdisciplinary nature of his practice has seen him present at health conventions at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda, and show work with student bodies at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Ljubljana University Medical Centre in Slovenia. He has contributed to The Lancet Psychiatry Journal.</p>

TSOKU MAELA

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