Glori Tuitt is a New York City based Painter and Illustrator. A graduate from Purchase College with her BFA in Painting + Drawing her work seeks to recontextualize the black trans form within the fine art canon and relationship to reality. Primarily working in 2D mediums , she seeks to explore the intersections of race, religion and pop culture in relation to the identifying of self. Mining the collective history of queer representation she sees herself as intermediary and visual translator assembling new hybrid archetypes and narratives. Ultimately seeking to both humanize and deify trans existence.