April Bey
Power Girl (Incarcerated Queen), 2018
Earth History (Weave Gradient), 2019
Colonial Swag in Space (Ferengi Feminism), 1 of 20, 2020
Gilda Trinity, 2021
Colonial Swag: Badassery and Broughtupsy, 2022
Colonial Swag: Na Enjoyment, 2022
The Growers, 1989, Indirect or Filtered Light IIII, 2023
As a Matter of Fact, I'm Glad You Said Something, 2023
Calathea Fuchsia, 2023
Colonial Swag: Say I Mean Something, 2023
I've Seen What I Needed To See, 2023
Mighty Real (But I'm Not a Drag Queen, I'm Sylvester), 2020
Bey is a Bahamian interdisciplinary artist who makes work that is both an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian culture, contemporary pop culture, feminism, generational theory, social media, AfroFuturism, AfroSurrealism, post-colonialism and constructs of race within supremacist systems. Bey is both a practicing contemporary artist and art educator, having taught a controversial course at Art Center College of Design called "Pretty Hurts" analyzing process-based art and Beyoncé hashtag faux feminism.
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Exhibitions
2022
Colonial Swag | April 21, 2022 - May 28, 2022
Fairs
2023
Untitled Art Miami Beach | Miami Beach, FL, USA (group presentation)
The Armory Show | New York, NY, USA (solo presentation)
2022
Untitled Art Miami Beach | Miami Beach, FL, USA (group presentation)
Future Fairs NY | New York, NY, USA (group presentation)