Author: Amrisa Niranjan
Bio: Amrisa Niranjan is a Guyanese-born artist and muralist, who creates work to engage audiences in dialogue about the nuanced contemporary immigrant and minority experience. The focus of her work is to further expand the narrative of the world’s colonized diaspora by identifying often-overlooked collective elements that stitch descendants of once-colonized or enslaved people to one another. Niranjan highlights the enigmatic beauty of these cultures, which evolved to transcend histories of trauma to create multitudes of new expression in music, art, dance and language that continue to impact the world today.