Khaleb Brooks

Khaleb Brooks is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and writer exploring blackness, transness and collective memory. By meshing the black queer figure with surreal environments in paintings, using printmaking to question the politics of desire and entering transcendental states in performance they force their audience to confront the literal and social death of black peοple globally.

Prior to working as an artist full time, Khaleb was an international development practitioner working with the United Nations and a multitude of NGOs throughout Africa, Latin America and Asia. They consistently seek innovative ways to bring their passion for social justice to the creative sector. Khaleb, originally from Chicago is inspired by the perseverance of black families in overcoming poverty, addiction, abuse and gang violence as well as their own experiences of being transgender.

Khaleb Brooks is a participant of the Emergency Fellowships program of Onassis AiR 2020-21 and of the Tailor-made Fellowships program 2022-23.