RENEE ROYALE (b. 1990, Brooklyn, NY) is a process-oriented conceptual artist whose practice operates at the intersections of philosophy, ecology, and materiality. Working across film-based media, installation, and writing, her work investigates landscape, material transformation, and the entanglements of bodies, environments, and systems of belonging. Her art has been featured in publications including liquid blackness, SEEING BLACK: Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond, A Nation Takes Place: Navigating Race and Water in Contemporary Art, and an artist’s book, Landscapes of Matter. She has exhibited work at various institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY; Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, LA; School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; Macalester College, St Paul, MN; Echo Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; ROSEGALLERY, Los Angeles, CA; Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA; and ICOSA Gallery, Austin, TX.
She is the founder of Support Black Art, a digital diasporic platform that provides visibility and resources to Black artists. Her last curatorial projects were SEEING BLACK: Black Photography 1840 and Beyond, as curatorial assistant for a series of exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and New Orleans African American Museum; and Sugar, a co-curated group exhibition at Antenna Gallery in New Orleans that was also a Prospect New Orleans P.5 Satellite Exhibition. Many of her past curatorial projects have been exhibited in alternative art spaces and galleries in New York and New Orleans, including her own living room.
Her digital strategy experience has allowed her the opportunity to work with art organizations including the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums, Prospect New Orleans, Black Artists + Designers Guild, Antenna, the New Orleans Arts Council, the New Orleans African American Museum, and AC Institute.
She has presented and moderated talks for the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana State University, Antenna Gallery, The Black Curatorial Labs, A Black Creative’s Guide, PRIZM Art Fair, Ace Hotel New Orleans, Louisiana State University, Mills College, and Black Gotham.
Born in New York, she was raised just outside of Atlanta, and is a dual citizen of the United States and Barbados. She is currently based between Mexico City, MX, Chicago, IL, and New Orleans, LA.