2023 ILLUMINATIONS GRANT FINALIST
JHONA XAVIERA
Image courtesy of the artist.
Jhona Xaviera Fabian (they/she) is the American first-born of their Dominican family tree. Born and raised in New Jersey and reborn in Boston MA, Xaviera's research-based artistic practice is a testament to her continued healing and survival as she seeks to revive and revere her ancestors in this modern dystopia.They received their BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University where they researched the history of queer and trans experience in African Diasporic religion and cultural identity. Her multimedia approach to world-building is a labor of love. In creating her own origin myth through light, sound, music, poetry, and visual art, she plants the seeds for a cultural space to call her own. Xaviera craves a space where Black, Queer, Indigenous, and Disabled people thrive.
Learn more at her website.
