Bronx Recognizes its Own (BRIO)

Performing Arts: Music

Prophet aka Not4Prophet (Alano P. Baez), is a singer, mc, playwright, Director, actor, poet and teacher. As former lead singer of the band RICANSTRUCTION, emcee of group… more

Visual Arts: 2D

Alex “FDEZ” Fernández is an autodidactic, multidisciplinary artist who was born in New York, but partly raised in the Dominican Republic and is… more

Literary Arts: Literary Prose

Amy Gottlieb is a novelist and poet. Her debut novel The Beautiful Possible (Harper Perennial) was a finalist for the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, the Edward Lewis Wallant… more

Visual Arts: 3D

Amy Pryor works with a variety of media, including collage, painting, installation, drawing, and textiles. Her work often explores a visual space between landscape and… more

Performing Arts: Acting

Athena Colón is a bilingual, native New York actress, teaching artist and coach. While earning her BFA in Theater from Long Island University, C.W. Post, she co-created… more

Literary Arts: Literary Prose

Benedict Nguyễn is a dancer, writer, and creative producer based on unceded Lenapehoking and Wappinger lands (South Bronx, New York). She’s danced in projects… more

Literary Arts: Poetry

Carmen Mojica is a Black Dominican born and raised in the Bronx. She is a certified professional midwife, writer, and reproductive justice activist with a particular… more

Performing Arts: Music

Christopher Otto is a composer and violinist living in the Bronx, New York. He studied composition at the Eastman School of Music and mathematics at the University… more

Visual Arts: 2D

Through the grime and grind of my life in The Bronx, my art reimagines my experiences and surroundings through a lens of enchantment. My work persists to see the beauty… more

Visual Arts: Photography

David Perez: Born in the Bronx of New York City but lived in different states and countries due to his father being in the USMC. David Perez also know as 2ndGunny is… more

Visual Arts: 3D

Dennis RedMoon Darkeem Artist, Educator, Community, and Cultural Practitioner. My work is inspired by creating community, reflecting on history, environment,… more

Performing Arts: Poetry

Dior is a microhauler who is passionate about Environmental Justice and waste equity. She uses Hip Hop to teach environmental sustainability and adds a unique approach… more

Performing Arts: Dance

Donovan Reed began his dance training at the age of 16. Soon after, Donovan attended college at The University of The Arts, he was awarded his BFA in May of 2016.… more

Visual Arts: 2D

Emily Henretta transforms images from contemporary, urban scenes into elaborately cut and gathered prints. Digital circuitry, human hands, natural scenes and patterned… more

Performing Arts: Music

Percussionist Gabriel Globus-Hoenich blends a multitude of musical influences together in his work as a performer and educator. A Montreal native, Gabriel… more

Performing Arts: Music

Hannah Coleman is a poet, singer and songwriter with a sincere devotion to the mastery of the performance arts. Over the past decade, she has performed in Carnegie… more

Media Arts: Experimental Film/Video

Hyonok Kim is award winning director and choreographer. She was born in Korea, then she went to France, where she studied Film, Theatre, dance and received her Ph.D… more

Performing Arts: Poetry

Imani Wallace: Lyrical Faith is a Black American Educator, Activist and Spoken Word Poet from The Bronx, NY. She is the 3rd ranked Woman Poet in the World as of the… more

Literary Arts: Poetry

Janel Cloyd is a Poet and Writer. She has been awarded a Willow Arts Alliance Residency with history concentration in the Weeksville African American Cultural Arts… more

Literary Arts: Poetry

Jodi-Ann Nunes Francis is a Caribbean- American emerging writer and poet and is the Associate Director of the Black Studies Program, City College, CUNY.… more

Visual Arts: 2D

Kim Dacres is a visual artist using found tires and rubber to create sculptures celebrating influences in her life and community. Dacres was born in the Bronx to Jamaican… more

Visual Arts: Photography

Lisa DuBois is a New York-based ethnographic photojournalist and curator. DuBois' work focuses on the subcultures of mainstream society. She increases societal cultural… more

Performing Arts: Dance

A Bronx native, Maleek Washington is a performer, choreographer, mentor, and teaching artist whose artistic voice melds movement, theater, music, and visual art… more

Performing Arts: Music

Michael Crisol, aka Doctor Brick, is a beatboxer, born and raised in the Bronx. As of 2022, Doctor Brick is ranked as the 16th best beatboxer in the US. He has been… more

Literary Arts: Screen/Playwriting

Michele Stanback aka storäe michele (they/them) is a black queer, shape-shifting, non-binary femme, afro-futurist performer + storyteller. their creative practice… more

Visual Arts: 3D

Misra Walker (1992) Bronx, NY, is a community organizer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and video. In 1971 Marvin Gaye… more

Literary Arts: Literary Prose

Nahshon Dion is an African American and Latinx multi-talented, award-winning creative nonfiction writer, teaching artist, emerging filmmaker, creative director, producer,… more

Visual Arts: Painting

Visual artist Rosemarie Fiore lives and works in Bronx, NY. She has attended residencies at Kohler Arts/Industry Program, Art Omi, Yaddo, Skowhegan, MacDowell,… more

Visual Arts: Photography

Roy Baizan: I am a Mexican photographer from the Bronx. I photograph my community,my family, and my environment to preserve their stories. I use the camera as a tool… more

Visual Arts: 2D

Ruben Dario Ramirez is a Dominican- American digital artist, illustrator and animator. He creates whimsical and yet detailed illustrations of the inner city… more

Visual Arts: Photography

Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx-based photographer. She holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP-Bard College and a certificate in Photojournalism… more

Visual Arts: 3D

Sandie Luna is an Afro-Latinx immigrant artist, educator, mother and arts administrator. In addition to devising and producing original works, Sandie is executive director… more

Literary Arts: Literary Prose

Sarah Wang is a writer, editor, and educator in New York. She has written for The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and BOMB.… more

Media Arts: Documentary Film/Video

Shaunese Crawford is solely interested in creating visually stimulating and mind-altering work. Shaunese has been linked with brands and creators of various mediums… more

Performing Arts: Acting

SkittLeZ Ortiz is a Latine artist from the Bronx, New York. With over 100k followers across platforms, SkittLeZ has been creating content that uplifts the community… more

Visual Arts: 2D

Sol’Sax was born Trevor Jemal Holtham in Kings County Hospital In 1969, it was the same hospital his Mother was born in by her Geechee parents from South Carolina.… more

Visual Arts: Painting

Summer McClinton (b. 1976) is an award-winning comic book artist, illustrator, installation artist and oil painter. Her work mixes existing artistic styles and… more

Visual Arts: Painting

Ghanaian-born artist Tijay Mohammed’s practice is moved by his personal and community stories informed by the complex view of the African and African American… more

Media Arts: Narrative Film/Video

Tramaine is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and producer. In 2013 she wrote and produced Her first critically acclaimed web series Sunny Reign hitting a million views… more

Performing Arts: Music

Vilma Lissette Sanchez Henriquez as known as La Galli is a one-of-a-kind singer/songwriter with a spellbinding voice From El Salvador, currently… more

Literary Arts: Screen/Playwriting

A Public School Educator, Vincent Marano has a MA in Playwriting and Directing from Hunter College and advanced degrees from Fordham and Baruch. He has been a fixture… more

Visual Arts: 2D

From The Bronx, Walter Cruz explores the intersections of art, design, music and architecture to better understand how Black and brown bodies activate and take up space.… more