Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (born 1993) [1] is a queer black American artist and photographer. In 2019 they received an Emerging Visual Arts Grant by The Rema Hort Mann Foundation. [2]
In 2017, Brown graduated with a BFA from New York University [3] [4] at the Tisch School of Arts. They also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017. [4]
Brown's work is inspired by Deana Lawson, Carrie Mae Weems, and Lorna Simpson. [3] Their work started with a focus on self portraiture to examine the complexities of gender and identity. [4] Brown's work speaks to the black queer body by using the intimacy of portraiture as a means to question preconceived notions of maleness and blackness. [5]
Brown has been commissioned by media outlets and fashion designers, including New York Magazine , [3] Gayletter Magazine, [3] The New Yorker , [6] [7] Vice , [8] Teen Vogue , Dazed , W Magazine , [9] [10] and Telfar Clemens. [11] Their work has been featured by W Magazine, [12] [13] Vice, [4] and The Fader . [3]
In 2017, Brown co-curated the seventh annual "Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair" with Devin N. Morris, titled Rock Paper Scissors and a Three-Armed Shovel. [14]