JULY 11-October 30, 2025 | THE AMERICA WALDO BOGLE GALLERY AT THE BUSH HOUSE MUSEUM
RECEPTION AT THE BUSH BARN ART CENTER: FRIDAY, JULY 11, FROM 5:30 – 7:30 P.M.
“Pictures, like songs, should be left to make their own way in the world. All they can reasonably ask of us is that we place them on the wall, in the best light, and for the rest allow them to speak for themselves.” ~ Frederick Douglass from Pictures and Progress
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nikesha Breeze is an international artist working across a diverse range of media—including oil painting, clay and bronze sculpture, installation, performance art, and film. Grounded in a global African diasporic and Afro-Futurist perspective, her layered, immersive works draw on African diasporic research, reclamation, and memorial, forging otherworldly spaces rich with storytelling and historical education. Her practice employs multiple materials and methodologies that call upon ancestral memory and archival resurrection to revive stories long erased from the global narrative, engaging directly with themes of grief, sanctuary, power and presence, visibility, and erasure.
Breeze’s innovative approach has garnered national acclaim. In 2021, her expansive 5,000-square-foot solo exhibition “Four Sites Of Return” was featured in American Art Collector, Hyperallergic, Metalsmith Magazine, and The New York Times. Her collaborative work, “Stages of Tectonic Blackness,” earned her the National Performance Network Creative Fund and Development Fund Grant. Earlier, at the 2018 International ARTPRIZE exhibition, she received the juried 3D Grand Prize Award and the Contemporary Black Arts Award for her sculptural installation, 108 Death Masks: A Communal Prayer for Peace and Justice—a work that in 2024 was included in the permanent collection of the Equal Justice Initiative’s Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama, honoring the six million lives lost in enslavement in the United States.
Originally from Portland, Oregon, Nikesha Breeze now lives and works in the high desert of Taos, New Mexico, on the unceded land of the Taos Pueblo People. As an African American descendant of the Mende People of Sierra Leone and Assyrian American immigrants from Iran, her multicultural heritage infuses her work with a dynamic range of perspectives. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as MoCADA Museum, The Albuquerque Museum, University Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, and the NkinKyim Museum of Ghana, as well as at fine art galleries and art fairs around the globe.
https://www.instagram.com/nikeshabreeze
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