Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Michaela Yearwood-Dan (b. 1994) lives and works in London. Her practice builds spaces of community, abundance and joy through large-scale painting, works on paper, ceramics, and site-specific mural and sound installations. Her distinctive visual language draws on Blackness, queerness, femininity and healing rituals, weaving together art historical references and pop culture. Yearwood-Dan’s work has been shown at Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, (China); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; York Art Gallery (UK); and in the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (USA); Palazzo Monti, Brescia (Italy); and the Museum of Contemporary African Art, Marrakesh (Morocco), among others. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Government Art Collection (UK), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina, the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; and the Jorge M. Perez Collection, Miami (USA). She lives and works in London.