T. Eliott Mansa

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Biography

T. Eliott Mansa was born in Miami, Florida and is an alumnus of the New World School of the Arts High School. He received a Thalheimer Scholarship to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art but ultimately received his BFA from the University of Florida in 2000. He has also pursued is graduate education at the Yale School of Art.

His work, exploring familial and socio-political themes through the lens of West African myth and lore, has been exhibited at the ArtAfrica Fair and Prizm Art Fair during Art Basel, the David Castillo Gallery and the Miami International Airport, all in Miami, and the African American Museum of the Arts in Deland, Florida.