That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to Venice, and I knew that wasn't going t….

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist..

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table..

My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter ….

Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fres….

I remind myself that we need to continue to do the things we believe in and be even more vocal about asking people to do more. This might be my Scorp….

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people..

When I was 18 years old, there was no internet and no gay teen nights. Instead, you went to the clubs and talked to grown men and did grown-up things..

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there..

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell..

Tobacco and religious organisations..

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter..