T. Eliott Mansa

T. Eliott Mansa (born 1978) is a Miami-born multidisciplinary artist whose sculptural practice draws on African diasporic ritual, memorial traditions, and the aesthetics of Black mourning and resilience. Incorporating materials such as fabric, beads, flowers, latex paint, found objects, and devotional iconography, Mansa creates shrine-like assemblages that honor victims of racial violence and explore the emotional landscape of grief, care, and cultural survival. His work merges Southern Black vernacular practices, Yoruba cosmologies, and contemporary sculptural forms to build spaces of remembrance and spiritual reckoning. Mansa holds an MFA from Yale University and has exhibited widely throughout South Florida and nationally.