Gesiye Souza-Okpofabri

Gesiye is a multidisciplinary artist from Trinidad and Tobago with Nigerian heritage. She creates tattoos, performance, film and documentary work to explore embodiment and storytelling as forms of liberation. Her work in social and climate justice movements and her lived experience as a Black, queer human inform her creative practice. In 2015, she received a B.A. in Visual Arts from Columbia University, where she focused on contemporary relationships between race, power and play. She has shown work at a number of local and international spaces, including the National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago and FiveMyles Gallery. She is currently working on a commissioned piece for the National Museum of Wales that explores colonial legacies and their impact on the Black diaspora’s relationship with the land.