District-based artist Nia Keturah Calhoun centers on the communal world built by Black Americans, focusing on real and imagined connections. Multidisciplinary, Calhoun uses paintings, sculpting, animating, and immersive experiences to create alternate realities.

She has exhibited with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, at the Torpedo Gallery in Alexandria, VA, and in Johannesburg at the Ants Gallery. Her lyrical and mixed media works have been featured on/in BBC Radio 1, The Guardian, Hypebeast, and the Washington Post.