AMERICAN WOMAN
American Woman is a new durational performance and accompanying video installation that presents an embodied portrait of Black women workers, from unnamed field hands to the second-highest office in the land. The work was one 42 selected for exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's 2022 Outwin Triennial from a field of over 2700 entries. With an audio collage of popular music, oral histories, speeches by Shirley Chisholm, Fannie Lou Hamer, Angela Davis, Stacey Abrams and others, American Woman distills and amplifies a century of Black women’s largely-unheralded contributions to American life using the artist’s own body as a living archive and testament to their labor.