Tschabalala Self: Performing Artist in New York

About Tschabalala Self

Tschabalala Self is an American artist whose work centers on constructed images of Black women, built from paint, fabric, and fragments of earlier pieces. She works on canvas but treats it as a site for collage and sewing, drawing on a lineage that includes Romare Bearden and the traditions of quilt-making and assemblage. Her figures push against prescribed roles, using the language of clothing, pattern, and pose to revise how the Black body is seen. In New York City, her work has been presented at the New Museum.