BIO
Aisha Chantal Bryant was born in Washington, D.C. in 1994 to a Haitian mother and Black father. In 2017 she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the New York State School of Ceramics at Alfred University. Aisha is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in ceramic sculpture and digital video. She is currently a Post Baccalaureate student in the Ceramics Department at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR.
STATEMENT
Bryant's work investigates the subjects of post colonialism and identity using ceramic materials to mimic the erosion of time, the distortions of histories told by mouth and by academia. Her current body of work brings together previous work in digital video and ceramic sculpture, exploring the removal of the Black body as a public spectacle of trauma and the inability to choose or feign ignorance of the repercussions.
She views this work as a physical agglomeration of histories, experiences, language, religion, and culture, avoiding the convention of streamlining it for easy consumption. Pairing depictions of fine Sevres porcelain forms with objects that evoke the Caribbean environment, she manipulates the standing hierarchy of visual cultures in the West.