Beyond Beauty

Renluka Maharaj was born in Trinidad and Tobago and works between Colorado, New York City andTrinidad. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder where she earned her BFA, and her MFAat The School Of The Art...

Portugal based sculptor Frida Baranek was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1961. She earned an M.A. in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins in London in 2012 and a B.A. in Architecture at Santa Ursula’s...

Lewinale Havette (b. 1990, Monrovia, Liberia) is a Liberian-born, Atlanta-based painter whose work reflects themes of African spirituality, migration, and fema identity. Influenced by her Liberian heritage and personal...

Rajyashri Goody was born in 1990 in Pune, India. She lives and works between the Netherlands and India. Goody completed her BA in Sociology at Fergusson College in Pune in 2011, and an MA in Visual Anthropology at the...

Gio Swaby is a Bahamian interdisciplinary visual artist currently represented by Claire Oliver Gallery. She is known for her textile portraits that explore and celebrate Blackness. With a multimedia practice that...

A’Driane Nieves was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1982. A visual artist and writer, A’Driane Nieves founded Tessera Arts Collective, an arts nonprofit, in 2018, and subsequently launched an art magazine. Nieves is a...

Through her dynamic, celebratory quilted portraits of people of African decent , Bisa Butler (b. 1973, Orange, NJ) investigates the purposes and potential of portraiture within the Black historical narrative. Butler’s...

Season 1 Reflections: Celebrating Voices and StoriesIn this special episode, I look back on the incredible journey of Beyond Beauty Season 1, highlighting the powerful conversations with Global women artists who shared...

Photo credit Carolyne Teston Candice Hoyes is an artist of “chill-inducing range” (Vogue) across genre, medium and style. In 2024, Hoyes made her Lincoln Center composer debut in “Sadah Espii Proctor’s adrift” which is...

Photo: Mike Vitelli Kennedy Yanko (b. 1988, St. Louis, MO) is a sculptor and installation artist working in found metal and paint skin. Yanko deploys her materials in ways that explore the limitations of optic vision...

Photo Credit: Chez Awachie Ifeanyi Awachie is a Nigeria-born, Atlanta-raised writer, filmmaker, and scholar. She is a PhD Candidate in Cinema Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her dissertation research is on...

Adebunmi Gbadebo is a multimedia artist who uses culturally and historically imbued materials to investigate the complexities between land, matter, and memory on various sites of slavery. Centering on deeply resonant...

Few artists understand metamorphosis as keenly as Saudi artist Manal AlDowayan. Long invested in interrogating the gender-biased customs that impact the condition of women in Saudi Arabia, AlDowayan is a sensitive yet...

Minne Atairu is a researcher and interdisciplinary artist interested in generative artificial intelligence. Utilizing AI-mediated processes, and materials, Minne’s artistic practice is dedicated to illuminating...

Photo credit : Steph Murray Edra Soto is a Puerto-Rican born artist, curator, educator, and co-director of outdoor project space The Franklin. Soto instigates meaningful, relevant, and often difficult conversations...