Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Metaferia’s solo exhibitions include Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2024-2025); RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI (2022-2023); and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021-2022). Her work was included in the 2023 Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates. Group exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2025); Blaffer Museum of Art, Houston, TX (2024); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (2023); The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (2023); and Modern Art Museum Gebre Kristos Desta Art Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2019). Her work is in institutional collections including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY.
Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, ArtNews, and ArtForum. She is an Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Department of Visual Art, and lives and works in New York City.
The Willing (MoAD), Helina Metaferia, 2024, live performance, 1 hour, photo by Juliana Yamada.
Crown (Kandake), Helina Metaferia, 2024, brass sculpture with etching, 12″x8″x8″, photo courtesy of Tinashe Chidarikire.
Helina Metaferia portrait in front of The Work (Imagine A Better Future), 2024, acrylic and wood installation, 11’x10’x2′, photo courtesy of Tinashe Chidarikire.
