Turiya Adkins
Turiya (b. 1998, New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn. She received her BA from Dartmouth College in 2020.
Turiya Adkins’ practice rigorously intertwines history, memory, and speculative futures to explore bodily movement, resistance, and flight. Encompassing a constellation of references such as Black athletes in track and field, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Zambian Space Program, the artwork and writings of Sun Ra, folklore of flying Africans, and James Meredith’s 1966 March Against Fear, Adkins deploys a gestural language that brings form to the complexity of feeling and moving.