Angelbert Metoyer
*Angelbert Metoyer was born on this date in 1977. He is a Black Afrofuturism-themed artist.
He is from Houston, Texas, and began his artistic career through Rick Lowe's Project Row Houses in Houston. He held his first solo exhibition there in 1994. He moved to Atlanta to study drawing and painting at the Atlanta College of Art.
Metoyer's art explores memory and social history through the lenses of science, philosophy, and religion. He works in various media, including drawing, painting, installation, and sound. He appropriates unusual art materials, which he calls "excrements of industry," that include coal, glass, debris, oil, tar, mirrors, and gold dust. Metoyer's work is in the permanent collections of the US Department of State, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Charles, H. Wright Museum, the African American Museum of Contemporary Art, the ACE Collection, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany.
He has shown at the Venice Biennale, Art Basel Miami, and a renegade show, Art Basel Switzerland. Although a nomad having lived in various parts of the world, Metoyer currently lives in Houston and Rotterdam. Metoyer is regularly published in essays and studies accompanying exhibitions, including Strange Pilgrims. He is one of five Black artists of particular significance in Collecting Black Studies: The Art of Material Culture at the University of Texas at Austin.
His artwork is on many album and book covers, including Mike Ladd's Negrophilia, Saul Williams' Niggy Tardust, Bilal's In Another Life (2015) and VOYAGE-19 (2020), and Marcus Guillery's Red Now and Laters.
