Madjeen Isaac

Madjeen Isaac is a Brooklyn based Haitian-American visual artist whose practice is rooted in reconstructing and assembling mélanges of urban and tropical environments to create utopias and realms of her imagination. Growing up in a predominantly Caribbean neighborhood and being a first generation American influences Isaac’s process of commemorating her community, memories and cultures that shaped her upbringing. Isaac calls for environmental justice, food equity and land ownership by centering narratives of Black and Caribbean folks leaning into their ancestral practice of agriculture and tending to the spaces they occupy in order to receive an abundance of joy, liberation and leisure in return. Isaac invites viewers as both an outsider looking in and possibly existing in her worlds without the constraints of reality. 

Isaac received a BFA in Fine Art from The Fashion Institute of Technology (2018) and an MA in Art+Edu & Community Practice at New York University (2021).