Naima Lowe makes performances, texts, drawings, installations, and videos using transgressive and radical traditions of Black utterance. She rigorously cultivates and protects her intuitive sensibilities; fed by a deep intellectual and familial allegiance to the liberatory ethos of improvisation. She uses the specificity of her personal and family history to create works about desire and longing; amplifying and abstracting emotional states to unsettle the perceived boundary between mind, body, spirit, and one another. Naima has a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Temple University. Her work has been shown at Anthology Film Archive, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Wing Luke Museum, MiX Experimental Film Festival, National Queer Art Festival, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and the Henry Art Gallery. She’s held residency fellowships at The Bemis Center, Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, and The Lighthouse Works. Naima was a 2023-24 Mabou Mines SUITESpace Resident, and previously she was a 2021-2022 Mid America Arts Alliance Interchange ArtistFellow, recipient of the 2022-23 Mid America Arts Alliance Artistic Innovation Award, and a recipient of a 2022 Jazz Road Creative Residency. Naima resides in Tulsa, within the Muscogee Creek Nation Reservation, where she spends her time being free and talking to animals.