Michaela Pilar Brown is an image and object maker. She studied sculpture and art history at Howard University, though she has always been a maker of things. Born in Bangor, Maine and raised in Denver, Colorado, she cut her teeth in the halls of a museum where her mother worked as a security guard, and has been immersed in the culture of objects, their making and interpretation ever since.

Her current art practice focuses on cultural hierarchies relating to beauty, and how race and history play into these caste systems. . She explores issues of identity and notions of otherness as defined in American standards of beauty using a combination of performance and staged photography, and is interested in the politics of the body with respect to race and gender.

2011 Undefined Magazine contemporary emerging artist of the year
Fall 2011 Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Art and Culture Artist in

Residence at McColl Center for Visual Art

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