The California-based artist is known for re-staging classic works of art using subjects of color. In one of his most famous works, titled Girl with a Bamboo Earring (2009), the artist reimagines Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring to critically examine the absence of black subjects in the history of art. Erizku is also particularly well known for photographing Beyoncé’s pregnancy announcement in 2017, which quickly became one of the most-liked pictures on Instagram.