Miatta Kawinzi

Graduate Seminar I & Studio Practice I

Miatta Kawinzi is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and educator of Kenyan-Liberian-American heritage. Her practice spans sculptural installation, analog and digital film/video/sound, photography, performance, and poetics. Her recent work explores hybridity within the African Diaspora and the liberatory and regenerative potential of gesture and softness. Her work has been presented at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, CUE Art Foundation, the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA PopRally, BRIC, Maysles Cinema, and the Museum of the Moving Image, among other spaces. She is a recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship and the New York Artadia Award. She has taught at Cornell University, Hampshire College, and the University of Richmond. Kawinzi received a BA in Interdisciplinary Art & Cultural Theory from Hampshire College and an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College.