ARTIST BIO
Marryam Moma is an Atlanta-based Tanzanian-Nigerian artist whose subtractive paper-cut collages excavate the interior lives of Black women — their joy, power, and spiritual complexity — through a practice rooted equally in architectural precision and diasporic memory. With a Bachelor's of Architecture from Temple University's Tyler School of Art, Moma brings structural rigor to analog collage, layering cut paper and botanical forms into works that are simultaneously intimate and monumental.
Shaped by residencies at The Hambidge Center, The Swimming Hole Foundation (Upstate NY), and the Atlanta BeltLine × ArtWorks Sculpture Design Residency, her practice spans gallery walls to civic landmarks. Recent works include Melanin Machina — a "Talking Drum" collaged traveling sculpture exhibited at the United Nations, NY (2025); ICONoclasts Atlanta, a building-wide installation on Auburn Avenue; and a mural for Clark Atlanta University's Student Innovation Lounge.
Her work has appeared on the cover of XXL, in the NAACP Image Award-winning New Brownies Book, and on screen in Black-ish and Bel-Air. Included in notable corporate, hospitality, and private collections — among them Google, Microsoft, Home Depot, Hotel Indigo, Grand Cayman Islands, and Starbucks — her work is as at home in institutional spaces as it is on civic walls. Moma serves on the board of The Hambidge Center.