Darryl DeAngelo Terrell

Darryl DeAngelo Terrell is a BLK queer artist, curator, writer, and educator based in Detroit, Michigan. Terrell has exhibited or performed at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., among others. They center their practice around the philosophy of F.U.B.U. (The Shit Is For Us) and intend for their work to aid in a larger conversation about blackness and its many intersectionalities, including the displacement of black and brown people, othered identities, gender, sexuality, and personal narratives. Terrell received their BFA from Wayne State University, Detroit, and their MFA in Photography from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Derrick Woods-Morrow

Born 1990 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.

2016 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 2014 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston. 2012 BA, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia.

"When I was first introduced to Derrick Woods-Morrow’s practice in 2015, it was the performative gestures in his work that struck a chord with me, and that continue to resonate with me today. Working across photography, video, sculpture, and performance, Woods-Morrow pushes boundaries around pleasure, queerness, historical narratives, and leisure. In so doing, he builds a world, and envisions a society, where Black queer bodies can be sexually liberated without inhibition."

Artwork Image: Frederick on Lake Pontchartrain | After Lincoln Beach, 2019. Archival Piezographic Carbon Print. 40 x 30 in.

Clifford Prince King

Born 1993 in Tucson, Arizona. Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

"Clifford Prince King gives black gay men the space to be, to exist, and to love on one another seemingly without judgment or interference. In his photographs, we are granted access into otherwise private domestic scenes of black queer intimacy, yet the bodies depicted here aren’t overtly sexualized. Prince King’s subjects are often shown looking at one another as they engage in acts of pleasure or leisure. Our own gaze is unreturned, establishing our status as observer rather than participant in these personal exchanges."

Artwork Image: Safe Space, 2020. 35mm.

Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas O'Neal

Born 1991 in Chicago, Illinois. Lives and works in Chicago.

2015 BA, University of Illinois, Chicago.

"Black women photographing black women as an act of love and care—these are the thoughts that come to mind when I experience the multidisciplinary practice of Zakkiyyah Najeebah. Her work, which spans photography, video, and mixed-media objects, is tender in tone, highlighting the importance of shared space to community building and personal connection. Najeebah’s progressive practice straddles the line between art and social discourse; it exists as an archival process of Blackness, Black womanhood, Black queer womanhood, and Black Chicago."

Artwork Image: Krystal and Ruth, 2018. Film scan archival print. 48 x 36 in.