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INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
SuboArt Magazine
Afi Ese offers insight into her artistic practice, creative influences, and approach to narrative portraiture. The conversation introduces readers to the ideas and experiences that inform her work and her exploration of Black identity, cultural memory, and representation.
Matter News
In this in-depth interview, Matter News explores Afi Lane’s Northbound exhibition at Columbus’s 934 Gallery, examining how her charcoal portraits use personal objects and the symbolism of the Ohio River to confront historical erasure, Black migration, and collective memory. The conversation also traces her journey from forensic psychology to fine art and her commitment to reclaiming Black narratives through portraiture.
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Daytime Chicago
For more than 50 years, the Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry has celebrated the depth and diversity of African American art.
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Afi's painting Three Musketeers (2024) received 3rd Place in the Griffin Museum of Science + Industry’s Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition. Among more than 200 works chosen from over 1,300 submissions,
SELECTED PRESS
2026 June. Afi Lane explores concepts of memory, migration in stirring 934 Gallery exhibition, Matter News READ MORE
2026 February. Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Daytime Chicago READ MORE
2025 March. the-System *. In Conversation With Afi Ese, Featured Artist Spread. Read more
2024 August. Brown Girls and Mental Health Magazine. Featured Artist Spread.
2023 October. Suboart Magazine. Featured Artist Spread.
2021 September. Blk Voices Magazine, Cover.
2021 August. Root Work Journal. Artwork.
2020 March. Brown Girls and Mental Health Magazine. Artwork and poetry.
2020 January. Black Art in America Newsletter.
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