Miatta Kawinzi is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and educator of Liberian and Kenyan heritage. Raised in the US South and based in New York, she explores hybridity within the African Diaspora, as well as the re-imagining of the self, identity, and culture through abstraction and poetics. Her work has been presented in venues including the Museum of the Moving Image, Red Bull Arts Detroit, the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA PopRally, BRIC, Maysles Cinema, and IFC Center. She has been awarded artist residencies in spaces including POV Spark in partnership with NMAAHC (NYC/DC/Venice, Italy), Red Bull Arts Detroit (Detroit, MI), the Cité internationale des arts (Paris, France, with LMCC), the Bemis Center (Omaha, NE), and the Bag Factory (Johannesburg, South Africa). Additional awards include the 2019 Bemis Center Alumni Award and the 2018 Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant (Queer|Art). Kawinzi has taught at Hampshire College and the University of Richmond and is a museum & arts educator at the Brooklyn Museum and other community spaces. She received an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College and a BA in Interdisciplinary Art & Cultural Theory from Hampshire College.