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brandon king
(b. 1984) 

multidisciplinary artist, from the Atlantic Ocean by way of Hampton Roads VA, brandon creates installations exploring African Diasporic identities, honoring his ancestors’ stories through archival and found materials, sound collage, painting, film, and other forms. his practice generates pathways to acknowledge and alchemize harms committed to disrupt despair, to equip and strengthen past, present, and future generations.


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brandon is a founding member of Cooperation Jackson, a cooperative network in Jackson Mississippi and currently serves as Executive of Resonate Coop, an international, open source, music streaming platform cooperative. subt.le is based in NYC and is currently an MFA candidate at Queens College focusing on Social Practice and Installation. he is also a member of the New York City based artist collective PTP
YELLOW TOOTH DEATH (2001)

acrylic on canvas with cigarette butts
37 x 59 inches

mixed media piece that critiques worldwild anti-smoking campaigns, the viscerality of the body changing and shifting from people smoking tobacco occupies the viewer more than questioning the conditions to which folks use tobacco as a coping mechanism.