https://www.instagram.com/curate.la/ We're going Live on Instagram with artist Rakeem Cunningham who will join us from his studio. We'll be looking at the work and answering your Qs in the live chat at 3pm! Rakeem Cunningham is a multimedia artist and photographer based out of Los Angeles, California. Born in 1992, his work explores the many nuances of the queer black experience through photography, collage, installation, and video works. Cunningham often incorporates images from manga, anime, comics, and fashion magazines he’s consumed during his life, often in an attempt to subvert and identify tropes and stereotypes of blackness in media. While Cunningham focuses on queer identity politics, escapism, fantasy, self-acceptance, and the navigation of body politics under the queer landscape he’s also interested in exploration and interaction of materials. Cunningham received his BFA from the UCLA design and media arts department and is currently a member of Montevista Projects in Los Angeles.