Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, installation, collage, and social practice. Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI; New York University’s The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY; and Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA. Her art was featured in the 2023 Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates. Metaferia’s work is in the permanent collection of institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture, New York, NY; and Kadist, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France. Her work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Financial Times, Artnet News, Hyperallergic, and The Art Newspaper. Metaferia is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Art department at Brown University, and lives and works in New York, NY.