Turiya Adkins (b. 1998, New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn. She received her BA from Dartmouth College in 2020.
Turiya Adkins’ practice rigorously intertwines history, memory, and speculative futures to explore bodily movement, resistance, and flight. Encompassing a constellation of references such as Black athletes in track and field, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Zambian Space Program, the artwork and writings of Sun Ra, folklore of flying Africans, and James Meredith’s 1966 March Against Fear, Adkins deploys a gestural language that brings form to the complexity of feeling and moving.
In her most recent works, Adkins advances her concept of ‘Afro-futuremyth’ (as opposed to Afrofuturism) which emphasizes mythology as an ongoing process of reimagining ancestral narratives to explore the notion of flight as an existential process.
Her work has been featured in recent exhibitions, including Swallow the Moon (2026) at Amanita, New York, NY; More Than a Notion (2024), Hannah Traore Gallery, New York, NY; Parallels and Rupture (2023), Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA; Experience 49: blue/s (2021), El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Manifold Deluxe (2023), Frieze London, UK; Helmut Lang Seen by Antwaun Sargent (2023), Hannah Traore Gallery, New York, NY; and Manifold (2022), London, UK.
Turiya Adkins (b. 1998, New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn. She received her BA from Dartmouth College in 2020.
Turiya Adkins’ practice rigorously intertwines history, memory, and speculative futures to explore bodily movement, resistance, and flight. Encompassing a constellation of references such as Black athletes in track and field, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Zambian Space Program, the artwork and writings of Sun Ra, folklore of flying Africans, and James Meredith’s 1966 March Against Fear, Adkins deploys a gestural language that brings form to the complexity of feeling and moving.
In her most recent works, Adkins advances her concept of ‘Afro-futuremyth’ (as opposed to Afrofuturism) which emphasizes mythology as an ongoing process of reimagining ancestral narratives to explore the notion of flight as an existential process.
Her work has been featured in recent exhibitions, including Swallow the Moon (2026) at Amanita, New York, NY; More Than a Notion (2024), Hannah Traore Gallery, New York, NY; Parallels and Rupture (2023), Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA; Experience 49: blue/s (2021), El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Manifold Deluxe (2023), Frieze London, UK; Helmut Lang Seen by Antwaun Sargent (2023), Hannah Traore Gallery, New York, NY; and Manifold (2022), London, UK.
