Voices of the Diaspora: The Artisans Behind the Canvas

Ladi Kwali (c. 1925 – 12 August 1984) was a Nigerian potter, ceramicist, and educator celebrated for blending traditional Gwari pottery techniques with Western studio practices. Her work, distinguished by hand-coiled forms, incised and sgraffito decoration, and masterful glazing, elevated everyday vessels into artistic embodiments of heritage, symbolism, and innovation.

Lakela Brown (born 1982, Detroit, MI) is a contemporary sculptor and mixed-media artist whose work celebrates Black culture through bold, tactile forms. Known for her signature plaster reliefs featuring bamboo earrings, rope chains, hair beads, and other iconic symbols of Black style, Brown transforms objects of everyday adornment into monuments of cultural memory. Her work bridges sculpture, printmaking, and collage, often foregrounding motifs linked to 1980s and 1990s hip-hop aesthetics and Black girlhood. Brown’s practice is rooted in honoring the visual language, textures, and materials of the communities that shaped her, translating them into elegant, graphic compositions. She has exhibited at galleries and institutions across the U.S. and internationally, including solo and group exhibitions at ICA San Francisco, Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), Reyes | Finn, and Lisa Yuskavage Studio Projects. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Lance Minto Strouse is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores legacy, memory, and the spiritual presence embedded within everyday materials. Rooted in Caribbean and African American cultural histories, Strouse constructs paintings, objects, and mixed-media assemblages that reflect on personal and ancestral narratives. His practice often considers how identity is shaped across generations, how memory is held in the body, and how the unseen—ritual, spirit, intuition—moves through material form. Strouse is emerging as a distinctive voice within Miami’s contemporary art landscape, contributing to dialogues around Black futurity, community, and cultural renewal.

Latoya M. Hobbs, printmaker and painter, makes large-scale portraits of Black women. Hobbs’ work explores ideas of beauty, cultural identity, and womanhood as they relate to women of the African Diaspora.  Hobbs received her B.A. in Painting from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and her M.F.A. in Printmaking from Purdue University.

LaToya Ruby Frazier (1982- ) is an American artist working across photography, video, performance, and installation. The camera is a tool towards social justice and change. Frazier creates her work in collaboration with the communities she works with. Her work documents experiences of postindustrialization, communal history, and workers' rights.  Frazier received her BFA in Photography and Graphic Design from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2004. She received her MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Performing Arts at Syracuse University in 2007. 

Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948) was an American painter active during the Harlem Renaissance. She painted mostly portraits, but also created some still-life works. Many of her portraits include prominent figures of the first half of the 20th century, including W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Marian Anderson, and Alma Thomas.  Waring studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, completing her studies in 1914. 

Lauren Halsey (1987- ) is an American artist whose work is grounded in the locality of her Southern California home, Los Angeles. Halsey creates site-specific and standalone installations that are inspired by the people in the immediate environment, paying close attention to the experiences of queer, Black, and working-class people. She critiques gentrification while suggesting creative solution.  Halsey received her MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT in 2014. She received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA in 2012. 

Lavar Munroe (1982- ) is a Bahamian-American artist who works mostly in mixed media painting, cardboard sculpture, and drawing. He is interested in fables and folklore, particularly parallels between stories of the Bahamas and his travels in Africa. He incorporates glass, newspapers, crocheted and synthetic flowers, feathers, and jewelry into his paintings and sculptures. Munroe's work includes personal, historical, and mythological references and sits between a desire to leave home and the longing that accompanies the journey. Munroe received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013. In 2007 he received his BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. 

Lawrence Lemaoana (1982- ) is a South African textile artist. He creates embroidered text with political and social texts on kangas. His work explores the intersection of the mass media and people in South African society. He is also interested in deconstructing myths of masculinity. Lemaoana received a BFA from the University of Johannesburg in 2004. 

Le'Andra LeSeur (1989- ) is an American artist working across video, installation, photography, painting, and performance.  LeSeur is interested in Black femininity and feelings of invisibility. She creates work that honors and centers the trauma experienced by Black women. Taking the audience with her she seeks to revel in the pain and joy that exist simultaneously. LeSeur also seeks to highlight Black queer experiences. 

Leasho Johnson (1984- ) is a Jamaican contemporary artist known for his provocative and thought-provoking works that explore themes of gender, sexuality, and Jamaican culture. Johnson's diverse body of work encompasses painting, sculpture, and mixed media, often incorporating elements of popular culture and Jamaican iconography. His bold and innovative approach to art has earned him recognition both locally and internationally, establishing him as a significant voice in the Caribbean art scene. Johnson received his BFA at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in 2009 and his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020. 

Leilah Babirye (born 1985, Kampala, Uganda) is a Ugandan artist whose multidisciplinary sculptural practice explores identity, sexuality, human rights, and queer community. Working across ceramic, wood, metal, and found materials, Babirye examines LGBTQ+ experience and cultural belonging through carving, burning, welding, assemblage, and the transformation of discarded objects into portraits and totemic forms. Babirye studied Fine Art, Sculpture, and Art History at Makerere University in Kampala. Her work often engages portraiture, African masking traditions, exile, memory, and activism, using hand-built ceramics, hand-carved wood, vivid glazes, and salvaged urban debris to consider gender fluidity, resilience, and the violence of anti-LGBTQ+ repression in Uganda and across Africa. Her work has been exhibited at the de Young Museum, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Stephen Friedman Gallery, and Gordon Robichaux. Babirye lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Leonardo Benzant (1972- ) is a Dominican-American artist with Haitian heritage. He studies Yoruba and Kongo initiation rites to inform his work. Benzant is a multidisciplinary artist using various materials to connect to his African and Caribbean heritage.  Benzant received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2010.

Leonardo Drew (1961- ) is an American artist who took inspiration for many of his creations from the landfill adjacent to his home in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Drew uses everyday objects and various materials such as wood, mud, paper, iron, and cotton and puts and transforms them. Through burning, oxidation, decay, and weathering, the materials bear little resemblance to where they started. This results in sculptures that strike a delicate balance between chaos and order.  Drew was born in Tallahassee, Florida.  He attended Parsons School of Design in New York and received his BFA from Cooper Union in 1985.  😆😆😆

Léonard Pongo (born 1988, in Liège, Belgium) is a Belgian-Congolese artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores Congolese identity, landscape, memory, spirituality, and the layered realities of life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Working across photography, film, textile design, experimental printing techniques, and mixed-media installation, Pongo examines how Congo is perceived and represented through immersive visual strategies that move between documentary observation, abstraction, and material experimentation.  Pongo studied Political and Social Sciences at Maastricht University, graduating in 2009, and later earned a BA in Visual Arts: Photography from Bussel’s Art School in 2012. His work often engages landscape, social history, craft, and diasporic belonging, using snapshot, diary-based photography, abstraction, moving image, and installation to consider the complexity, contradiction, and polysemy of Congolese experience beyond reductive frameworks of conflict or spectacle.  His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale in 2026, and has been shown in exhibitions across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States. He was named one of PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch in 2016 and received a Getty Grant in 2018. Léonard Pongo lives and works between Brussels and Kinshasa. 

Leroy Campbell (born July 21, 1956, in Moncks Corner, South Carolina) is an American artist whose mixed-media practice explores African American history, Gullah-Geechee heritage, family, resilience, spirituality, and collective uplift. Working across painting, collage, acrylic, paper, tapestry, and organic materials, Campbell examines memory, ancestry, and cultural pride through silhouetted figures, elongated forms, and narrative compositions that connect the past to the present.  Campbell is self-taught. His work often engages Sankofa, Gullah-Geechee history, Harlem and Brooklyn cultural memory, and the idea of humanity as a shared garden, using mixed media and storytelling to consider interdependence, healing, and Black self-determination. His visual language is shaped by his South Carolina roots, New York experience, and a sustained commitment to teaching through art.  His work has been shown through Richard Beavers Gallery, Overdue Recognition Art Gallery, the Harlem Fine Arts Show, and other community-based and gallery exhibitions, including Historical Backbone: The Resilience and Determination of a People in Harlem. Leroy Campbell is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lina Iris Viktor (1987-) is a British-Liberian conceptual artist. Her work includes photography, sculpture, painting, and film. She incorporates gilding into her practice to explore the connection between art, prophecy, and spirituality.  Viktor received her BA in film at Sarah Lawrence College and studied photography as continuing education at The School of Visual Arts, in New York. 

Loïs Mailou Jones⁠ (1905-1998) was an American artist. She worked across painting, costume, textile, and collage. Jones style continued to evolve throughout her career responding to her various influences and international travels. She created variety of subjects ranging from landscapes to figurative portraits to Cubist renditions of African masks. She taught at Howard University in the art department from 1930-1977 and trained countless artists during her tenure.  Jones received her undergraduate degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1927. She received her graduate degree from the Design Art School of Boston in 1928. 

Lonnie Holley (born February 10, 1950, in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores memory, survival, spirituality, Black southern life, environmental transformation, and the poetics of found materials. Working across sculpture, assemblage, drawing, painting, installation, film, and music, Holley examines personal history, collective trauma, and improvisational creativity through salvaged objects, carved sandstone, and immersive environments that transform discarded matter into vessels of testimony and imagination.  Holley is a self-taught artist. He began making art in 1979 after carving sandstone memorials for two of his niece’s children who died in a house fire, and he soon developed a broader practice rooted in found-object assemblage and site-responsive installation. His work often engages memory, social history, mourning, ecology, and Black vernacular experience, using improvisation, accumulation, and material transformation to consider endurance, healing, and the afterlives of lived struggle.  His work has been exhibited at the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the Royal Academy of Arts. He received a United States Artists Fellowship in 2022, and his work is closely associated with the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Lonnie Holley lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Lorna Simpson (1960-) is an American multidisciplinary artist working across photography, collage, and video installations. Her work explores questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race, and history. Simpson's work pushes the boundaries of conceptual photography. Simpson received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1982 and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1985.

Lorna Ward Napanangka (born 1960, Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia) is a Warlpiri artist whose paintings are grounded in ancestral knowledge, Country, and women’s ceremonial narratives. Working within the tradition of Central Desert painting, she translates Dreaming stories—particularly those associated with her mother’s Country—into rhythmic compositions of dots, lines, and layered fields of color. Her work communicates systems of kinship, land stewardship, and spiritual continuity, functioning as both cultural transmission and contemporary abstraction. Napanangka is a senior custodian of Warlpiri knowledge, and her paintings reflect the enduring vitality of Indigenous law, memory, and connection to place.

Lorraine O'Grady (1934-2024) was an American conceptual and performance artist.  In O’Grady’s works across mediums including text, photo-installation, video, and performance, multiple emotions and ideas coexist. She explored cultural constructions - namely race and gender- from a Black woman's viewpoint. Her work rejected binaries in any form.  O'Grady received her BA in economics from Wellesley College in 1956. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1967 from the Iowa Writers Workshop. 

Louisiane Saint Fleurant (1924-2005) was a Haitian painter and sculptor. She was one of the founding members of the celebrated Saint-Soleil community of artists in Soisson-la-Montagne. Her paintings centered on motherhood featuring women and children surrounded by plants and animals, together with the figures she sculpted in vibrantly hued clay.

Lou Stovall (born January 1, 1937, Athens, Georgia – died September 20, 2023, Washington, D.C.) was an American printmaker, painter, and master screenprinter whose work and leadership profoundly shaped Black print culture in the United States. He was the founder of Workshop, Inc. (est. 1968) in Washington, D.C., one of the most influential print studios supporting African American artists, where he collaborated with generations of artists to produce landmark screenprints. Stovall’s own artistic practice drew from African American history, African and Asian aesthetics, spirituality, music, and community memory, emphasizing rhythm, balance, and graphic clarity. His legacy endures through both his artwork and his pivotal role as a cultural builder and facilitator of artistic production.

Luana Vitra (1995- ) is a Brazilian artist working across sculpture, performance, and installation. Her work is closely tied to her home region, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The starting point for much of her work is iron ore and copper, mineral resources her home is known for. Her installations are symmetrical, a reference to Afro-Brazilian religions, but nonspecific sacred geometries.  Vitra received her BFA in sculpture from Guignard School of Arts in 2018. 

Lubaina Himid CBE RA (1954- ) is a British artist who works across painting, printmaking, and installation. Her work focuses on reclaiming cultural histories and memories. She was also a curator focused on creating space and acclaim for Black artists in the United Kingdom. She paints on various surfaces including wood. This allows the viewer to interact with her work and invites them to the performance in addition to addressing gaps in European art history. Himid was one of the first artists to be involved in the British Black Artist Movement of the 1980s.  Himid received her BA in Theatre Design from the Wimbledon  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimbledon_College_of_Art]College of Art, where she studied Theatre Design in 1976. She received her MA in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art in London in 1984.

Luce Turnier (1924-1994) was a Haitian painter, printmaker, and collage artist. Turnier's charcoal and pastels offered an alternative, sensitive depiction of Black women that contrasted with the sexualized and Voodoo themes that were popular at the time. She successfully integrated a Haitian perspective with modernist styles. Many of her works feature women or landscapes. 

Lucia Hierro (1987- ) is a Dominican-American multimedia artist working across sculpture, digital media, and installation.  Her work is a critique of capitalism with "bodega aesthetics". Art movements like Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and European still-life painting influence her work. Hierro's work  Hierro received a BFA from SUNY Purchase in 2010 and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. 

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (1987- ) is a Cuban performance artist and activist, known for his public performances that openly criticize the Cuban government and its policies. Since 2018 Alcántara has been arrested dozens of times for his performances in violation of Decree 349, a Cuban law requiring artists to obtain advance permission for public and private exhibitions and performances.⁠

Lulama Wolf (1993- ) is a South African painter. She brings the pre-colonial African experience to the forefront for her viewers. Wolf is influenced by smearing, scraping, and deep pigment techniques that were used in vernacular architecture to decorate African homes.

Lunga Ntila (1995-2022) was a fine art photographer from South Africa. Her photographs primarily take the form of portraits. Through the use of collage and digital manipulation, Ntila addresses concepts such as memory, fragmentation, and identity in her works. 

Lyle Ashton Harris (1965- ) is an American artist who works across photography, video, installation, and performance. Harris explores gender, sexuality, belonging, and cultural narratives. Queerness is a recurring theme in his work with Harris exploring both public and personal dimesons of sexuality. His portraiture and self-portraiture for example, explore drag and self-fashioning.  Harris received a BA from Wesleyan University with an in 1988. He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1990.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977) is a British painter and writer of Ghanaian heritage, born in London in 1977. Raised by Ghanaian parents who emigrated to the U.K. as NHS nurses, she initially pursued art after a foundation course at Central Saint Martins, then earned her degree at Falmouth College of Art, followed by an MA from the Royal Academy Schools in 2003

Lynthia Edwards (born 1978, in Alexander City, Alabama) is an American multidisciplinary artist whose collage-based practice explores Black girlhood, memory, Pentecostal upbringing, and the emotional textures of life in the American South. Working across collage, quilting, painting, and mixed media, Edwards examines race, gender, isolation, beauty, and self-fashioning through vivid color, patterned surfaces, and figures that often function as reflections of her younger self.  Edwards studied at the Art Institute of Atlanta, Auburn University of Montgomery, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her work often engages Southern Black life, family memory, faith, and the inner worlds of young Black girls, using collage, paint, quilting, and expressive figuration to consider both the tenderness and constraint of growing up within racialized and gendered expectations. She has also described her practice as rooted in everyday encounters, historical research, and the desire to “glorify black girl magic.”  Her work has been exhibited at Untitled Art Miami Beach, the Gadsden Museum of Art, the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, the Kentuck Art Center, and Richard Beavers Gallery. She has received the Alabama State Council for the Arts Fellow Award, Purchase Awards from the Alabama Art Colony, and “Best of Show” in the Montgomery Art Guild and Regions Bank Exhibition. Edwards lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama

Maganga Mwagogo (1997- ) is a Kenyan photographer. He works primarily as a fashion photographer. 

Dame Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo DBE (b. 1950, Nairobi, Kenya) is a Kenyan-British studio potter renowned for her hand-built, coiled ceramic vessels that bridge tradition, form, and memory. Her work merges influences from African pottery traditions, ancient vessel forms (like Greek and Native American), and her own sensibility for the human body in shape and surface. Each vessel is crafted slowly, burnished to a luminous finish and often fired multiple times to achieve glowing terracotta or deep, reduction blacks. Her pieces are widely recognized as both ancient-feeling and modern.

Maïmouna Guerresi (1974- ) is an Italian-Senegalese artist working across photography, sculpture, textile, installation, and video. Her work focuses on human spirituality in relation to mysticism. Influenced by Sufi practices in Africa, her work is grounded in a shared humanity. 

Malaika Temba (born Feb. 22, 1996, in Washington, D.C.) is a Tanzanian-American artist whose textile-based practice explores labor, trade, Black diasporic lineage, gendered care, and the cultural histories embedded in fabric and image-making. Working across analog and digital weaving, tapestry, collage, and textile-based installation, Temba examines intimacy, exploitation, and resilience through layered imagery, symbolic forms, and visual references drawn from contemporary media and found images from Tanzania.  Temba studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and later completed an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work often engages globalization, auntie and femme labor, East African marketplaces, craft histories, and the politics of material softness, using weaving, collage, and painted tapestry to consider how care and capitalism become entangled across diasporic and transnational experience. Sources also note that she grew up across Saudi Arabia, Uganda, South Africa, Morocco, and the United States, a transnational background that shapes her attention to exchange, migration, and cultural hybridity.  Her work has been exhibited at Gaa Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, and in YoungArts presentations, including solo exhibitions such as Ni Hivi Hivi Duniani, This Bridge Called Our Backs, and Sugarcane Is Sweetest at the Joint. She received a YoungArts award in Visual Arts in 2014 and the Jorge M. Pérez Award from YoungArts in 2021. Malaika Temba lives and works in New York.

Malick Sidibé (1935-2016) was a Malian photographer. He is known for his black and white photographs of youth culture in Bamako, Mali. His introduction to the photographic sciences was decorating the studio of French photographer, Gérard Guillat. Impressed by him, Guillat took Sidibé on as his apprentice. Starting his solo practice in 1957, with taking photos of nightlife, Sidibé opened his own studio in 1962. His photographs show Malian modernity, documenting times of transition and youthful fun. Following the opening of his own studio, he began taking photos of national, cultural, political, and artistic events.  Sidibé graduated from Maison des Artisans Soudanais with a degree in jewelry making in 1955. 

Manuel Mathieu (1986- ) is a Haitian multi-disciplinary artist working across painting, ceramics, and installation. His work investigates themes of historical violence, erasure, and cultural approaches to physicality, nature,e and spiritual legacy. He pulls from Western art movements as a framework to explore how individual identities are situated into larger social-political contexts.  Mathieu received his bachelor in arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2010 and his MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2016. 

Manyaku Mashilo (1991-) is mixed-media South African artist whose work explores themes of ancestry, spirituality, belonging and fantasy. Inspired by archives, she tells fictional stories through her pieces that often offer ideas of a future. Through her work she highlights the richness of African culture and tradition. Her pieces have been showcased throughout South Africa with her work a part of collections in the US, UK, Nigeria and Korea. @manyaku_mash

Maren Hassinger [https://www.moma.org/artists/41280] (1947- ) is an American artist and educator whose career spans four decades. She uses sculpture, film, dance, performance, and public art to explore our relationship to nature, movement, transformation, and industrial materials. Her artistic process uses everyday materials like plastic bags, dirt, leaves, and newspaper.

Maria Lídia Magliani⁠ (1946-2012) was a Brazilian painter, engraver, and illustrator.⁠ Magliani⁠'s was focused on addressing conditions of humanity and transcended topics of blackness and femininity. Much of her work contains female subjects. Ultimately, her work pulls from the country's cultural and political situations.  ⁠Magliani⁠ was one of the first Black women to graduate in Arts at the Universidade Federal do the Rio Grande do Sul in 1966. That same year she held her first solo exhibition at Galeria Espaço in Porto Alegre, then a new gallery in Rio Grande do Sul. In 1967 she obtained a postgraduate specializing in painting. 

María Magdalena Campos-Pons (1959- ) is a Cuban multidisciplinary artist working across photography, performance, video, and sculpture. Her work explores multicultural identity, gender, religion, history, and identity formation. Much of her work has an autobiographical component, referencing herself and her family's stories.  Campos-Pons received degrees from the National School of Art, Havana (1980) and the Higher Institute of Art, Havana (1985) and attended the MFA program (1988) at the Massachusetts College of Art.

Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien (b. 1990, Paris, France) is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work bridges the craft of her Guadeloupean and Ivorian heritage with contemporary installation, textile art, and sculptural practice. Raised in a trans-Atlantic context between Côte d’Ivoire, Guadeloupe and France, she draws on ancestral craft, materials of industry, and poetic narrative to compose layered “maps” of identity, memory, body and cosmos. 

Marielle Plaisir is a French-Carribbean multimedia artist who has been exploring the concepts of social domination  Beginning as a painter first, she currently considers herself an activist artist. For Plaisir power is not a natural fact, but a socially constructed one. Through her work, she deconstructs these conditions and imagines a world free of prejudice and imbalance. She sets out to create intense visual experiences for the audience.  Plaisir received a Master of Applied Arts from the University of Bordeaux III, France and a graduate degree in art and scenography from the Honors Advanced School of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts of Bordeaux, France. 

Marius Dansou (1984) is a Beninese sculptor making hairstyles from steel. Dansou incorporates the movements of braiders into his sculpture, creating new styles. He is inspired by West African hairstyles, street and hair salons, fashion trends, and even shapes from every objects for his work. 

Mark Bradford (1961- ) is an American painter known for his abstract painting and his multimedia pieces where he affixes paper to canvas. Bradford’s large works engage in mapping and interrogating social and political issues affecting marginalized communities. His work has been described as “social abstraction”, an understanding that the use of materials he uses precedes their artistic purpose. ⁠Many of the materials he uses are discarded from cities in Southern California.  Bradford received both his BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1995 and 1997 respectively. 

Mark Delmont (born 1990, in Miami Gardens, Florida) is a Haitian-Jamaican multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores Black Miami, labor, community, car culture, family dynamics, and the visual languages of working-class life. Working across textiles, sculpture, portraiture, assemblage, and mixed media, Delmont examines the lives of blue-collar workers, neighborhood figures, and underrepresented Black and Brown communities through large-scale “fiber sculptures” and materially layered forms that foreground presence, dignity, and local memory.  Delmont is a self-taught artist with more than a decade of experience in mechanical contracting, a background that informs both his material intelligence and his focus on labor and everyday infrastructure. His work often engages Black iconography, cinema, hip-hop, and the built environment, using chicken wire, steel, fiber, wood, upcycled materials, and textile construction to consider how place, masculinity, aspiration, and survival shape life in Miami neighborhoods such as Carol City. His portraits and sculptural forms are frequently rooted in local histories while also drawing from artists and writers such as Ernie Barnes, Jacob Lawrence, and Octavia Butler.  His work has been presented through Oolite Arts, MASS MoCA residency programming, Untitled Art Fair, Miami MoCAAD, and other contemporary art platforms in South Florida and beyond. He received a 2025 South Florida Cultural Consortium grant, a 2025 Miami Independent Artist grant, a 2024 Harpo Foundation grant, and a 2026 Back River Road Residency through the Harpo Foundation. Mark Delmont lives and works between Miami and Brooklyn.

Mark Fleuridor (born 1996, Miami, Florida) is a Haitian-American artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores personal history, family, religion, memory, and the visual textures of Miami and the Caribbean diaspora. Working across painting, quilting, collage, patternmaking, photography, and performance, Fleuridor examines intimacy, ancestry, and storytelling through layered compositions that draw from family photographs, tropical landscapes, domestic space, and diasporic cultural memory.  Fleuridor received his BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019. His work often engages Haitian background, familial religious experience, archival imagery, and the subtropical environment, using painting, quilting, collage, photography, and found materials to consider how memory and inherited narratives shape present-day identity. Recent descriptions of his work emphasize the way he reconstructs family, friendship, and home through layered visual language rooted in both ancestral lineage and the lived atmosphere of South Florida.  His work has been exhibited at YoungArts, Untitled Art Fair, Prizm Art Fair, Sperone Westwater, Johansson Projects, and the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood. He has completed residencies at Oolite Arts, Oxbow, Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Art Omi, and the Textile Arts Center. Fleuridor received the Oolite Arts Ellies Award in 2020 and the Knight Champion Award in 2022. He lives and works in Miami, Florida.