Renee Royale

RENEE ROYALE (b. 1990, Brooklyn, NY) is a research-based and process-oriented visual artist whose practice operates at the intersections of media, philosophy, and ecology.

Royale has exhibited work at various institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Louisiana State University, Tulane University, Echo Contemporary, Antenna Gallery, Chicago Arts Coalition, and Roots and Culture. Her work has also been featured in publications including liquid blackness, SEEING BLACK: Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond, A Nation Takes Place: Navigating Race and Water in Contemporary Art, and an artist’s book, Landscapes of Matter.


Her writing has been featured in Burnaway, YARD ConceptDepartures, the Observer, the International Review of African American Art, and the Black Aesthetic Volume III.

Renee is currently meandering between New Orleans, Chicago, and Mexico City.

[from artist website]