Breeze, Nikesha

“Originally from Portland, Oregon, Nikesha Breeze lives and works in the high desert of Taos, New Mexico, on the unceded land of the Taos Pueblo People. Nikesha is an African American descendant of the Mende People of Sierra Leone, and Assyrian American Immigrants from Iran. Nikesha has shown work both nationally and internationally, and has shown work in the MoCADA Museum, The Albuquerque Museum, University Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, NkinKyim Museum of Ghana, fine art galleries and art fairs across the globe.

In 2021, Nikesha’s 5000 sg ft solo exhibition “Four Sites Of Return,” gained national acclaim and was featured in American Art Collector, Hyperallergic, Metalsmith Magazine and The New York Times. Nikesha was also a National Performance Network Creative Fund and Development Fund Grant Recipient for their collaborative work, “Stages of Tectonic Blackness”. Nikesha was awarded National recognition at the 2018 International ARTPRIZE exhibition, winning the juried 3D Grand Prize Award as well as the Contemporary Black Arts Award, for their Sculptural installation, 108 Death Masks: A Communal Prayer for Peace and Justice.In 2024, Nikesha’s work, 108 Death Masks: A Communal Prayer for Peace and Justice, was included in the permanent collection of the Equal Justice Initiative’s Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama honoring the 6 million lives lost in enslavement in the United States.”

Episode: Nikesha Breeze, Ancestral Memory

Website: https://nikeshabreeze.com/