Jean-François Boclé is an artist based in Paris. He was born in Martinique in 1971 where he lived for 17 years. He studied art at the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges (1992-95) and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (1995-98). His work has been displayed, among other places, at the Van Gogh…
Born in 1968 in Guadeloupe, Francoise lives and works in Marseille, France. After a short period at the École du Louvre (the Louvre School) in Paris in the ’90s, in the year 2000, Françoise Sémiramoth settled in Marseille. In 2021, Francoise completed her first year of her Master’s in Fine Art at the Fine Art…
Esteban Whiteside (b. 1985) is a self-taught painter whose work is based on the intersectionality of street art and politics. A native of Asheville, North Carolina, he began painting as an act of love, which then led to him dedicating more time and research to painting, with an interest in abstraction. Having always been inspired…
Abi Salami is a self-taught artist who creates large-scale surrealist works that explore her experiences as a Nigerian immigrant and Black woman in the United States. Through the use of a personal visual lexicon made up of symbols, she explores topics such as sexuality, mental health and race. She earned a Masters in Professional Accounting…
Joanne Hampstead was born in Hendon, England. At age two, her family moved back to their homeland of Guyana where she spent her early childhood. They then moved to the U.S. at age ten. Joanne is self-taught and after many years of trying to ignore her passion for art and design, she finally gave…
Greg Bailey – Artist Bio Greg Bailey was born in 1986 in Warsop, Trelawny. He earned his BFA from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in 2010, where he now lectures, and an MFA from the Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts in 2019. …
Breaking The Vision, draws from Trinidadaian/Canadian poet and writer Dionne Brand, who stated that we “must return to come forward, must break the vision of us that we did not make…must reclaim history.” The Caribbean region was created through the oppressive “civilizing’” colonial expansionist project, a project we see that continues even today. People brought…
Tasanee Durrett (1994) is a visual artist, originally from Chicago, who lives and works in Orlando, Florida. Throughout her years of college at the University of Arizona (2017), she studied architecture where the Black human experience became influential. After escaping an abusive relationship of eight years, she began translating her architectural influences through painting. Durrett’s…
Charles Mason III (Baltimore, MD) received his AA degree from CCBC, BFA from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and MFA in Studio Art from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), 2019. He has curated several shows in Baltimore and Philadelphia as well as had solo shows which include Screaming in Silence, My Salvation…
Hamid Nii Nortey ( b.1987) is a self-taught emerging Ghanaian artist whose interest in painting began as a pupil at Manla Dada Basic School in La Accra, Ghana. He was awarded the second best artist in a drawing competition organized across West Africa by Help Age, a nongovernmental organization in the year 2001. The poster…