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I am a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in painting and mixed media. My practice is rooted in material reuse, memory, and identity, examining how personal and collective histories are carried forward through remnants — what is left behind, overlooked, or discarded.

A defining aspect of my work is the use of recycled paint. Dried palette remnants from previous paintings are scraped, archived, and reassembled into new compositions. These fragments hold embedded histories — each chip originating in a prior gesture, decision, or emotional state. Through this process, residue becomes structure. What was once excess becomes foundation. This cyclical methodology has evolved into an ongoing philosophy within my practice: nothing is wasted, and every mark retains lineage.

Earlier figurative works explored identity, presence, and the politics of visibility — particularly Black presence within spaces shaped by power, contradiction, and expectation. That inquiry continues, increasingly through abstraction, florals, and symbolic systems. In my Rebloomed works, flowers emerge from recycled material, functioning as stand-ins for portraits — vessels of resilience, remembrance, and inherited beauty. These works are quiet but weighted, holding tension between fragility and endurance.

Recent bodies of work move toward deeper introspection. I am increasingly concerned with concealment, fragmentation, and emotional inheritance — how silence, secrecy, and self-protection are learned and passed down. My paintings operate simultaneously as archive and confession. Figures, symbols, and surfaces remain partially obscured, reflecting the psychological architecture of guarded lives and unspoken histories.

My background in fashion, branding, and global travel informs my visual language. I approach painting with sensitivity to material, composition, and cultural symbolism — borrowing the discipline of design while allowing intuition to lead the final form. The studio functions as both laboratory and repository, where past works inform future ones and process holds equal weight to outcome.

Ultimately, my work is about continuity. It asks how identity accumulates through time, how meaning survives reuse, and how transformation can occur without erasure. Each painting exists not as an isolated object, but as part of a living system — one that documents growth, contradiction, inheritance, and ongoing becoming.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Self-taught artist with formal influences from contemporary and historical practices

DCDG Art Residency – Los Angeles, CA (2024)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) – Permanent Collection (2026)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Recycled Visions

If These Walls Could Talk Gallery – Montreal, Canada (2024)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

We Give Thanks to the Elders

Group Exhibition

The Hendrie – Detroit, MI (2026)

Brooklyn Museum – Brooklyn, NY (2025)

Dominicano / All the Plugs That I Know

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair – London, UK (2025)

Rebloomism

My Brother’s Keeper (with Benny Bing)

If These Walls Could Talk Art Gallery – Montreal, Canada (May 15, 2025)

Quartier Community Block Party – Art Exhibit

If These Walls Could Talk Gallery – Montreal, Canada (August 28, 2025)

Collaborator: Naska Demini

PHI Centre – Montreal, Canada (2024)

Hieroglyphics of the Diaspora

PHI Centre – Montreal, Canada (2023)

Post Apocalyptic Kids

Peggy Auction Series – International (2024)

Multiple works listed and auctioned

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

Featured Artist – Official Press Book

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair – London (2025)

Feature – Peggy Collector’s Report (2024)

Press Coverage – Recycled Visions Solo Exhibition

If These Walls Could Talk Gallery (2024)

Interview – Art and Identity (2024)

PUBLIC SPEAKING & LECTURES

Panel Speaker – Arts & Culture Panel

Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) – Montreal (February 13, 2026)

Artist Talk – If These Walls Could Talk Gallery Marcus Troy & Benny Bing hosted by CBC’s Nantali Indongo(2025)

Panel Discussion – Art, Identity & Culture – Montreal (2024)

AGO Museum Talk – Toronto, ON (2024)

KAWS and Collecting Culture

Summer of ’91 Exhibition Talk – Fonderie Darling – Montreal (2024)

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES

Featured Artist – Kith Artist Series (Black History Month)

LOTA (Leap of Trust Arts) – Recycled Visions Workshop

Art program for youth (ages 10–14) – Marcus Troy Studios

LOTA – Inmate Art Rehabilitation

Recycled Visions Workshop

SKILLS & TECHNIQUES

Acrylic & Oil Painting

Mixed Media & Collage

Conceptual & Narrative Art

LANGUAGES

English (Fluent)

French (Fluent)

For inquiries or to purchase artwork, please fill out the contact form below with the subject: ARTWORK INQUIRY

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Photograph by Naskademini.

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