Angelbert Metoyer

Angelbert Metoyer
Born
Angelbert Metoyer

(1977-07-07) July 7, 1977 (age 47)
Houston, Texas[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationAtlanta College of Art
Known forMixed media
Websitehttps://www.angelbertmetoyer.com/

Angelbert Metoyer (born in July 1977 in Houston, Texas) (AN-gel-bər MUH-twy-ər) is an American visual artist on the forefront of afrofuturism.[2][3] Metoyer began his artistic career through Rick Lowe's Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas and held his first solo exhibition there in 1994. He subsequently moved to Atlanta to study drawing and painting at the Atlanta College of Art. Although a bit of a nomad having lived in various parts of the world, Metoyer currently lives in Houston and Rotterdam.[4]

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.[5] He appropriates unusual art materials, which he calls "excrements of industry," that include coal, glass, debris, oil, tar, mirrors, and gold dust.[6][7]

Metoyer's work is in the permanent collections of the US Department of State, Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Charles, H. Wright Museum, 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.

Metoyer is regularly published in essays and studies accompanying exhibitions including Strange Pilgrims.[8] He is also featured as one of five Black artists of particular significance in Collecting Black Studies: The Art of Material Culture at the University of Texas at Austin.[9]

In addition, his artwork has been used in 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.

  1. ^ Joy Sewing (March 29, 2013). "The science of style at still-new, under-the-radar Laboratoria boutique". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Caitlin Greenwood (November 27, 2015). ""Angelbert Metoyer: Life Machine" at the Canopy". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  3. ^ Douglas Britt (October 11, 2008). "For artist Angelbert Metoyer, paintings are family". Chron.com. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  4. ^ Joseph Campana (September 25, 2015). "A look behind the scenes as an artist prepares for an exhibit". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  5. ^ "Angelbert Metoyer". Art in Embassies Program. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  6. ^ "My Work: Angelbert Metoyer". Houston Chronicle. January 21, 2007. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  7. ^ Kristie Ramirez. "Angelbert Metoyer's_Desk". TexasMonthly. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  8. ^ Pesanti, Heather (September 2015). Strange Pilgrims. Austin, TX: The Contemporary Austin. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-4773-0551-5.
  9. ^ Ragbir, Lise; Smith, Cherise (April 2020). Collecting Black Studies: The Art of Material Culture at the University of Texas at Austin (1 ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-1-4773-2005-1.