BIO
BIO
Tanda Francis is a Brooklyn-based artist who primarily focuses on creating monumental African heads and masks for public and personal spaces. She is inspired by ancient customs and rituals as a significant means of understanding and addressing our contemporary condition. She uses her work to activate a dialog of universal origin that crosses cultural barriers.
Francis explores digital and traditional forms of art while working and exhibiting her art in solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally. Tanda Francis has created several site-specific monumental public art pieces including BIGGIE (2014), New York City; Everyone Breaks, Riverside Park, New York City (2015-2016); And We Breath (collaborative), Van Cortlandt Park, New York City (2015-2016); Take Me With You, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City, (2017-2018); Adorn Me, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn (2017-2018); RockIt Black Queensbridge Park, Long Island CIty, New York (2021). Additionally New York’s MAD Museum of Art and Design and the cover spread of New York Times Arts and Leisure. Her work was most recently been featured at a the Metropolitan Museum of art’s Superfine: Tailoring Black Style Exhibition.