Damali Abrams

#GlitterPriestess
Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess is a project-based healing artist born and raised in NYC by Guyanese parents. Damali earned a BA at NYU,  an MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and was also a participant in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. She also studied herbal medicine at The Open Center and is a reiki practitioner. Damali has been a fellow at A.I.R. Gallery as well as with apexart in Seoul, South Korea. She has been an artist-in-residence at Fresh Milk (Barbados), Groundation Grenada, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, The Center for Book Arts, and LMCC on Governors Island.

Damali constructs spaces and experiences of fantasy and myth, using collage, video installation and performance, that explore Black Utopia through the lenses of Afrofuturism and Afro-Caribbean syncretic religions. She examines folklore and contemporary popular culture, placing them in dialogue with one another.