Kamaria Shepherd

Kamaria Shepherd is an interdisciplinary artist based in Houston, Texas. Her work explores themes of race, womanhood, and femininity as an African American woman. She works within poetry, painting, printmaking, and installation. Shepherd has exhibited throughout the United States. Her installations and paintings have been featured on episodes of The L Word GQ. She earned an M.F.A. in painting from UCLA in 2018 and a B.F.A. in painting from RISD in 2015. Shepherd is the 2018 UCLA recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. She attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Frans Masereel Centrum, and was a Visiting Researcher at CAD+SR in Spoleto, Italy.