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Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili is a British painter of Nigerian descent known for layered canvases using elephant dung, glitter, and collage; he won the Turner Prize in 1998.
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall (born 1955) is an American painter, based in Chicago, who places emphatic jet-black figures at the center of large-scale paintings that address Black absence from Western history painting.
Loïs Mailou Jones
Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998) was an American painter, illustrator, and educator who taught at Howard University for nearly 50 years and is known for Les Fétiches, held by the Smithsonian.
Lubaina Himid
Lubaina Himid, born in Zanzibar in 1954, is a British painter who won the 2017 Turner Prize as the first Black woman to receive it.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer of Ghanaian descent known for oil paintings of invented Black figures who exist outside any specific time or place.
Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas (born 1971, Camden, New Jersey) is an American painter and collagist known for elaborate mixed-media portraits of Black women composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel.
Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu (born 1972, Nairobi, Kenya) is a Kenyan American artist whose collages, sculpture, and film center hybrid female figures contesting Western representations of Black women and Africa.