Miatta Kawinzi is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and educator of Kenyan-Liberian-American heritage. Her practice spans sculptural installation, analog and digital film/video/sound, photography, performance, and poetics. Her recent work explores hybridity within the African Diaspora and the liberatory and regenerative potential of softness. Her work has been presented at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the New Orleans Film Festival, CUE Art Foundation, the Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA PopRally, Red Bull Arts Detroit, BRIC, Maysles Cinema, and the Museum of the Moving Image, among other spaces. She is a recipient of the 2021-22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, the 2021 New York Artadia Award, the 2019 Bemis Center Alumni Award, and the 2018 Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant administered by Queer|Art. She has taught at Cornell University, Hampshire College, and the University of Richmond, and worked as a museum, youth, and community arts educator throughout NYC. She received a BA in Interdisciplinary Art & Cultural Theory from Hampshire College and an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College.