Jevon Brown

Jevon Brown is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Textiles. A native Miamian of Bahamian, Jamaican, and Black Southern heritage, Brown draws inspiration from the intersections of identity, community, and belonging. He creates bold, immersive spaces, both ethnographic and physical, where sensations, memory, and histories intertwine, giving fullness to untold stories. His work intimately explores Black masculine kindred spaces, drawing on fashion, painting, collaging, interior design, silkscreen printing, dyeing, embellishing, and photography. Within these environments, heirlooms and cultural icons transcend their traditional contexts, defying pattern, gravity, family roots, and personal history—each fiber imbued with meaning.

Brown uses textiles to weave narratives, connecting to his Miami, Caribbean, and Black Southern diasporas. Each thread of his fabric installations pulse with Black, queer affirmations, symbols, and colors. Drawing inspiration from popular culture, Caribbean poetry, and queer “yardie” dynamics, his practice challenges conventional spaces of belonging, creating room for Black men to explore their identities, experiences, and expressions of masculinity.

Brown’s work has been shown in institutions such as the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum, Miami; The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida; and Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, Washington. He has been featured in Dwell Magazine’s 24 Global Emerging Designers List; Frieze Digital Art Basel 2023; and awarded the Inaugural Eleanor Merritt Fellowship at The Ringling Museum of Art. His residencies include Project Art, Miami, Florida; and most recently, Centrum, Port Townsend, Washington.