Zoë Pulley (b.1993) is a designer and maker who utilizes stuff to surface the seemingly ordinary stories of Black folks through mixed media, typography, and audio. She defines “stuff” as artifacts both physical and nonphysical that may be relegated as unimportant to some—as merely stuff.

Most recently, Pulley was an Artist-In-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem where she exhibited work as part of the exhibition Pass, Carry, Hold at MoMA PS1. Additionally she has exhibited work at the Newport Art Museum, RISD Museum and the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. 

Pulley’s practice is challenges notion of the written word by way of publishing and zine-making. She began the ongoing publication Black Joy Archive in 2020 and was commissioned to create a zine for Combahee’s Radical Call: Black Feminisms (re)Awaken Boston at the Boston Center for the Arts in 2021. 

Her work is held in the collections of The Valentine Museum, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and Printed Matter. Pulley is an inaugural recipient of the Rhode Island School of Design Society of Presidential Fellowship and was awarded the Graduate Graphic Designer to Watch by GDUSA in 2023. She earned a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015 and an MFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design. 

Pulley is currently a professor teaching at Parsons School of Design and Pratt. She practices and lives in Brooklyn, New York.