T Eliott Mansa has developed an assemblage practice that incorporates materials from roadside memorials, applying ritual practices from West African, Caribbean, and Southern religious and vernacular sculptural traditions. His works question the efficacy of political art making, and looks to apotropaic art making practices, and creates with a conceit of creating a ritual practice to honor, memorialize, protect, and defend Black Lives, from state and extrajudicial violence. Born in Carol City, he received his BFA from the University of Florida in 2000, he attended the Yale School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, and received his MFA from CUNY-Hunter College in 2018.
