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Ayana Evans is a Chicago-born, NYC-based interdisciplinary visual artist and activist. Her work has been shown at El Museo del Barrio, The Barnes Foundation, The Bronx Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Newark Museum, Queens Museum, and a variety of free public locations.
Evans' upcoming exhibitions include her first solo exhibition at a museum: Nobody’s Gonna Love You Like I Do at the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis (2026) and her annual C.R.E.A.M. Career Fair For More Than Just Survival, which welcomed over 200 attendees in 2023, and transformed Brooklyn's Weeksville Heritage Center into both a job-hunting space and interactive environment for formerly incarcerated folks trying to re-enter the workforce.
Evans holds an MFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art and a BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. At present, she is an adjunct-professor at NYU, Fordham University, Brooklyn College, and Editor at Large at CultBytes, a leading voice in the fine art landscape.
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Evans’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Bomb Magazine, ArtNet, Hyperallergic, and The Cut. She is the 2018 New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellow for Interdisciplinary Arts, the 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and 2022 Chamberlain Award winner at Headlands Art Center.
Evans has completed residencies at Yaddo, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, and Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.