Nic[o] Brierre Aziz

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz is a Haitian-New Orleanian interdisciplinary artist and curator born and raised in New Orleans, LA. His practice often engages themes of history, pop culture and satire while centering narratives of the Caribbean and Southern United States. He has led extensive community-based projects throughout New Orleans with entities such as the Office of Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Antenna, the Arts Council of New Orleans, Prospect New Orleans, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. His work has been featured by numerous publications, including The Oxford American, The Associated Press, and Burnaway, and he has written for sites such as HuffPost and Hyperallergic. He has also been the recipient of several artist residencies and fellowships including an Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellow, a Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence and most recently an Art Matters Foundation Fellow. In addition, he manages the Haitian Cultural Legacy Collection - a collection of over 400 pieces of artwork that was started by his maternal grandfather in 1944. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College, a Master of Science from The University of Manchester (UK), and most recently, a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art.