Chire Regans, also known as VantaBlack, is a proud mother, visual artist, truth-teller, and community advocate. Her practice centers on drawing from life and portraiture. The epidemic of gun violence in Miami-Dade County and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement pushed her art in the direction of social awareness and change. Regans began a series of memorial portraits of victims of violence here and beyond. This series, which Regans categorizes as Social Commentary Art, began with five portraits and now includes over 200 portraits of victims and their stories. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri. In the late 1980s, she relocated with her family to the city of South Miami, Florida. She is a graduate of Florida A&M University. Regans serves on the Miami-Dade Community Relations Board’s Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Committee and works as a teaching artist at PAMM. She lives in Goulds.
