Jory Drew, April 2026

Jory Drew is an artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice explores how identity, memory, and social histories shape the possibilities of intimacy, kinship, and care within Black and queer life. Working across sculpture, installation, video, and performance, Drew examines the residues of systemic inequality while imagining alternative networks of support and survival. His work often reuses everyday materials — housing debris, domestic artifacts, and archival fragments — to reconstruct personal and collective narratives that challenge cultural erasure. Through these gestures, Drew turns vulnerability into a space of resistance, envisioning worlds in which Black life is centered, legible, and loved. Drew (b. 1992, Austin, TX) is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, 2015) and the University of California Los Angeles (MFA, 2025) and has recently exhibited at Art/Space 114 (Los Angeles, 2026), KITA Gallery (Los Angeles, 2025), and Murmurs (Los Angeles, 2023).

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