
I don’t decorate walls. I interrogate them.
Then I win the argument. I’m a two-time August Wilson Award recipient for art—yes, that August Wilson—and my work has hung in the Office of the Mayor of Pittsburgh for two consecutive years. It has also traveled internationally, showing in galleries across Spain, Dubai, Switzerland, Germany, and France. If you’re one of the few people who actually watched The Mayor of Kingston on Paramount+, you’ve already seen my work without knowing it—it was right there behind the drama, holding up the scene like it always does.
My practice moves between visual art, design, and decor, but the through-line is always the same: I see what a space could become before anyone else has bothered to look. Sometimes that means a large statement piece that stops a room cold. Sometimes it means one small black-and-white work turning an overlooked corner into the most interesting part of the building. I take walls that are doing nothing and make them unforgettable.
I also create all visuals for FUCKCABULARY, the daily feature where language gets dressed for war and sent out with zero apology. This is Hawsé Sumi—the work, the drops, the shit I’m getting ready to unleash.
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