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‘Do you feel this, too?’

Janiva Ellis is an American painter based in Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA. Ellis often makes figurative paintings that explore the African-American female experience.
Early life and education Janiva Ellis Born in Oakland, California, Ellis moved to Hawaii at the age of 7, moving back and forth between the islands of Kauai and Oahu. Raised solely by her white mother, in a state with a very small black population, Ellis uses her art practice to investigate and examine the complex racial dynamic of her upbringing. Ellis studied painting at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, graduating in 2012.
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