2026
BUTTER LA EXHIBITING ARTISTS
2026 BUTTER LA Artists
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Amai (Brochevski) Rawls, Jr.
Louisville, KYRead MoreAmai (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
CaliforniaRead MoreAndre 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
CaliforniaRead MoreApril Bey is a contemporary visual artist known for her mixed media work which creates commentary on contemporary Black female rhetoric.
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Asia Estelle
Houston, TXRead MoreAsia Estelle is a Houston-based photographer, ceramicist, and visual activist documenting Black issues and Black hair.
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Ashley Nora
Indianapolis, INRead MoreAshley 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
CaliforniaRead MoreAutumn 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, ILRead MoreBlake Lenoir is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose work blends contemporary surrealism with socio-cultural inquiry.
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Cornelius Tulloch
Miami, FLRead MoreCornelius 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
CaliforniaRead MoreCortney 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, INRead MoreDeonna 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
CaliforniaRead MoreFawlene Aziza documents vanishing L environments through photography and painting, translating memory and somatic experience into abstract works.
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Ferguson Amo
Brooklyn, NYRead MoreFerguson’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, INRead MoreFingercreations 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, INRead MoreFITZ is a self-taught artist whose surreal pop-culture abstractions create universal, relatable narratives.
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Fulton Leroy Washington
CaliforniaRead MoreMr. 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, INRead MoreGary 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, INRead MoreHarriet 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, INRead MoreIndia 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, INRead MoreIsrael Solomon is a visual artist whose unique style has been compared to cubism.
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John Simmons
CaliforniaRead MoreJohn 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, INRead MoreJulian Jamaal Jones is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who memorializes Black culture by presenting fresh perspectives.
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Kaima Marie Akarue
Houston, TXRead MoreKaima 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, INRead MoreKyng 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
CaliforniaRead MoreMarie 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, INRead MoreMatthew 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
MaineRead MoreMicah 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
CaliforniaRead MoreMicaiah 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
CaliforniaRead MoreNatou Fall is a Senegalese-American multidisciplinary artist and educator working across sculpture, film, painting, and make-up artistry.
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Nya Serano
CaliforniaRead MoreNya 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, ILRead MorePugs Atomz of Chicago reclaims Chicago identity drawing from AfriCobra influences and vibrant “Kool-Aid” color palettes.
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Rebekah Gaillard
CaliforniaRead MoreRebekah 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
CaliforniaRead MoreRiea 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, FLRead MoreSamantha 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, MNRead MoreShaina 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, INRead MoreSamuel 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
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Tiffany Conway
CaliforniaRead MoreTiffany Conway is an acclaimed Bay Area painter whose vibrant, imaginative works pay homage to the African Diaspora.
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Tumi Adeleye
CaliforniaRead MoreTumi Adeleye is a photographer and creative director whose work explores visual storytelling through softness, identity, and care.
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vanessa german
New YorkRead Morevanessa 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, TXRead MoreWilliam 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
CaliforniaRead MoreWill Raojenina is a multidisciplinary artist whose work delves into the intricacies of human connection.
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Zulu Heru
CaliforniaRead MoreZulu Heru is an Oakland-based sculptor whose work reimagines the cultural remnants of the African diaspora.
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