2026

BUTTER LA EXHIBITING ARTISTS

2026 BUTTER LA Artists

  • Amai (Brochevski) Rawls, Jr.

    Louisville, KY

    Amai (Brochevski) Rawls, Jr. transforms legal tender into intricate, emotionally charged collages that reframe currency as both material and metaphor.

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  • Andre Woolery

    California

    Andre Woolery is a California-based visual artist visual art who remixes cultural artifacts, that prominently feature portraits, infusing them with Black faces.

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  • April Bey

    California

    April Bey is a contemporary visual artist known for her mixed media work which creates commentary on contemporary Black female rhetoric.

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  • Azia Ellis-Singleton with The Moments Between Us for Black Lunch Table at Butter, Indianapolis, 2025

    Asia Estelle

    Houston, TX

    Asia Estelle is a Houston-based photographer, ceramicist, and visual activist documenting Black issues and Black hair.

     

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  • Ashley Nora

    Indianapolis, IN

    Ashley Nora is a dedicated visual artist, highly experienced in oil painting and mixed media art, telling stories of joy and happiness that transcends time and space.

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  • Autumn Breon

    California

    Autumn Breon is a multidisciplinary artist that investigates the visual vocabulary of liberation through a queer Black feminist lens;

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  • Blake Lenoir

    Chicago, IL

    Blake Lenoir is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose work blends contemporary surrealism with socio-cultural inquiry.

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  • Cornelius Tulloch

    Miami, FL

    Cornelius Tulloch is an interdisciplinary artist and architect focuses on the beauty and nuances of the Caribbean and African diaspora from a distinctly South Floridian point of view.

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  • Cortney Herron

    California

    Cortney Herron is a contemporary figurative painter whose work blends surrealism with serene, introspective compositions known for evoking a profound sense of calm.

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  • Deonna Craig

    Indianapolis, IN

    Deonna Craig is a published visual artist and educator whose work bridges ancient symbolism, storytelling, and social impact. She serves as director of BUTTER Fine Art Fair.

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  • Fawlene Aziza

    California

    Fawlene Aziza documents vanishing L environments through photography and painting, translating memory and somatic experience into abstract works. 

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  • Ferguson Amo

    Brooklyn, NY

    Ferguson’s landscapes explore the complex relationship between humanity and nature. Using traditional oil painting techniques, he imagines scenes where human figures blend into skies and landscapes, blurring the line between the natural world and the constructed. Fluid gestures, marks, and shifting forms anchor these compositions, introducing a sense of uncertainty, movement, and possibility.

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  • Fingercreations

    Indianapolis, IN

    Fingercreations is a visual artist who uses his unique medium of oil pastels, drywall, and broken glass while creating with just his “fingers”.

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  • FITZ

    Indianapolis, IN

    FITZ is a self-taught artist whose surreal pop-culture abstractions create universal, relatable narratives.

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  • Fulton Leroy Washington

    California

    Mr. Wash is a self taught painter who refined his craft in oil and acrylic while incarcerated. His life sentence which would be later commuted by President Obama in 2016. 

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  • Gary Gee

    Indianapolis, IN

    Gary Gee is a visual narrator, sculptor, and multidisciplinary artist using ceramics with a graffiti style to explore humor, social and political perspective.

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  • Harriet Watson

    Indianapolis, IN

    Harriet Watson is an emerging multimedia artist who uses abstraction and mixed media to process the emotional weight of her experience with Blackness in the Midwest. 

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  • India Cruse Griffin

    Indianapolis, IN

    India Cruse Griffin is an accomplished Mid-Western artist educator whose work demonstrates everyday challenges relating to women and family.

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  • Israel Solomon

    Indianapolis, IN

    Israel Solomon is a visual artist whose unique style has been compared to cubism.

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  • John Simmons

    California

    John Simmons, ASC (b. Chicago) is an Emmy-winning cinematographer and acclaimed photographer whose work bridges fine art and moving images. His career began at 15 with The Chicago Defender, the nation’s oldest Black-owned newspaper. Mentored by Robert “Bobby” Sengstacke and filmmaker Carlton Moss, Simmons developed a visual language that celebrates the quiet dignity and rhythm of everyday life.

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  • Julian Jamaal Jones

    Indianapolis, IN

    Julian Jamaal Jones is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who memorializes Black culture by presenting fresh perspectives.

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  • Kaima Marie Akarue

    Houston, TX

    Kaima Marie Akarue explores identity through collage, focusing on urbanism, capitalism, and erased narratives through both private and institutional collections, including the MFAH and the Carter Knowles Collection.

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  • Kyng Rhodes

    Indianapolis, IN

    Kyng Rhodes stands as a contemporary whose work aims to transcend the canvas, radiating with vibrancy, color, and profound expressiveness.

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  • Marie Jose Njoku-Obi

    California

    Marie Jose Njoku-Obi explores language and memory through spider-web imagery that reflects strength and the repair of fractured communities.

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  • Matthew Cooper

    Indianapolis, IN

    Matthew Cooper is an emerging self-taught artist specializing in mixed media paintings, exploring themes of faith, identity, and perseverance.

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  • Micah Johnson

    Maine

    Micah Johnson the former Los Angeles Dodgers’ player turned artist and storyteller centers his work on blending fine art, literature and imagination to show that no dream is out of reach.

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  • Micaiah Carter

    California

    Micaiah Carter is a photographer known for blending fine art, fashion, portraiture, and street photography to show the entire representation of people of color.

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  • Natou Fall

    California

    Natou Fall is a Senegalese-American multidisciplinary artist and educator working across sculpture, film, painting, and make-up artistry.

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  • Nya Serano

    California

    Nya Serano is an abstract landscape painter whose work explores the complexities of identity, drawing from her personal experiences with mental health.

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  • Pugs Atomz

    Chicago, IL

    Pugs Atomz of Chicago reclaims Chicago identity drawing from AfriCobra influences and vibrant “Kool-Aid” color palettes.

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  • Rebekah Gaillard

    California

    Rebekah Gaillard uses photography to paint vivid, thought-provoking, and emotionally expressive images to make sense of cultural identity as an immigrant woman.

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  • Riea Owens

    California

    Riea Owens is a former senior art director whose creative journey from graphic design roles at major film studios has evolved into a renewed, expressive practice.

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  • Samantha Modder

    Tampa, FL

    Samantha Modder of Tampa, FL, uses fairy-tale aesthetics and dreamlike materials to evoke childlike wonder while interrogating labor, privilege, access, and creative disruption.

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  • Shaina McCoy

    Minneapolis, MN

    Shaina McCoy is an artist whose deeply textured paintings regularly depict Black children, families, and social scenes. McCoy began painting during high school at the Perpich Center for Arts in Education in Golden Valley, MN. Her work has since been included in multiple group exhibitions.

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  • Samuel Levi Jones

    Marion, IN

    Samuel Levi Jones is a trained photographer and multidisciplinary artist, his work explores the framing of power structures and struggles between exclusion and equality.

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  • Terrick Gutierrez

    California

    Terrick Gutierrez is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores urban life in LA.

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  • Tiffany Conway

    California

    Tiffany Conway is an acclaimed Bay Area painter whose vibrant, imaginative works pay homage to the African Diaspora.

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  • Tumi Adeleye

    California

    Tumi Adeleye is a photographer and creative director whose work explores visual storytelling through softness, identity, and care.

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  • vanessa german

    New York

    vanessa german is a leading citizen artist working in sculpture, performance, and communal ritual to cultivate spiritual models for transforming human experience.

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  • William Maxen

    Houston, TX

    William Maxen is a visual artist whose work explores the duality and ambivalences of the mixed-race experience. Pulling from past experiences, both personal and historical, the work engages the artist’s connections with memory, environment, and belonging.

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  • Will Raojenina

    California

    Will Raojenina is a multidisciplinary artist whose work delves into the intricacies of human connection.

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  • Zulu Heru

    California

    Zulu Heru is an Oakland-based sculptor whose work reimagines the cultural remnants of the African diaspora.

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