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View fullsize UPDATED. deadline DEC 5th. ( due to incredible responses) Living History OPEN CALL: Black Readers and Voice Artists for Nikesha Breeze’s Living History We are seeking Black voice actors and individuals with performance experience to contribut
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View fullsize Birthday reflections. I do not have perfect language for this year. It is still moving through me. It has been the hardest year of my life and also the year of the biggest openings, the widest recognitions, the most astonishing moments of grace. Bot
View fullsize Last night at the artist’s preview of the new Studio Museum in Harlem was pure joy. To stand in that breathtaking space—built to honor, teach, and uplift generations of Black artists—was deeply moving. Every wall, every conversation
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View fullsize I am so thrilled to finally share this news! I have been awarded a commission by YALE University through the Committee for Art Recognizing Enslavement (CARE) to create a new permanent monument at YALE. This monumental public work will acknowledge Ya
View fullsize Blackness is the Refusal to be Reduced Curator Talk + Film Screening With Nikesha Breeze Join us for an evening with artist and curator Nikesha Breeze, presenting a curator talk and screening as part of Blackness is the Refusal to be Reduced, curren
View fullsize I want to talk about re-emergence.
This feeling of entering the world again, after sinking down inside it. 
The world right now is an incredible crisis.
Pain and war and genocide and endless, endless suffering.
Families torn apart, communities destro
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View fullsize Every day the body calls back to itself. A deeper listening, a deeper root. every day thinking of mom. Her joy. her light. Feeling her all around me like second skin. I miss her voice. Loving each embrace of family, of land, of elders and of cerem
View fullsize This morning on a whim, i asked ChatGpT to describe me, based on our interactions. Here is what it said. Do you think it was right? ❤️ “ You are a vision-weaver and future-ancestor, a multidisciplinary force whose work crackles with reverenc
View fullsize There are no words. My mom died yesterday. My beautiful mother cici. The center of my heart, my greatest teacher, friend, confidant, cheerleader, the one person in the world who knew, and loved, and held every part of me. She is The most fierce, bril
View fullsize Blackness is…The Refusal to be Reduced Curated by Nikesha Breeze TACOMA ART MUSEUM @tacomaartmuseum on view May 18th 2024-Mar 2027 “I stood at the border, stood at the edge and claimed it as central . l claimed it as central, and let
View fullsize The greatest work we can do is to begin to truly realize that we are not separate from each other. As so many in the west try to imagine all of the terrors to come with this new administration, and people are filled with fear for themselves, their fa
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View fullsize My dear brother. I cannot believe that you are gone. I am still in shock. all day in deepest grief. my words falter. We have been friends since we were children. growing up together in theater and dance. You elevated me and inspired me and rained
View fullsize 2 years ago today. Tigre left. and i have never been the same. I held their body in my arms. Like a small beautiful child. but they had gone from it before i arrived. Just a small fragile shell. Shed, like so many tears. tears that are still
View fullsize Over the last months, i have been diligently working on a new series of work, holding my heart close as the world continues to spiral in deeper suffering and unflinching pain. My work, my art, my voice has been challenged to continue to push further