Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo is an artist, abolitionist, storyteller and person of multitudes. Through a practice based in the printed multiple, community-based work, performance and installation building, they invite the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives, offering power and weight to the creation of a larger dialogue around the telling of Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, People of color’s stories. Lukaza has had solo shows at September Gallery, Deli Gallery, Roll Up Projects, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Printed Matter Inc. Their work has been included in exhibitions and performances at Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Konsthall C, EFA Project Space, San Francisco Arts Commision, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and L’Internationale Online, amongst others. Their artist books and printed editions have been published by Endless Editions, Childish Books, Ghost Proposal, Press Press, Center for Liberatory Practice & Poetry, Printed Matter Inc and Wendy’s Subway. Long live Palestine!

Kingston, NY — @bluekaza   https://lukazabranfmanverissimo.com/

Photograph by Soph Rocha