ARTIST BIO
Tanzanian-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist, Marryam Moma, primarily creates analog collages that explore the Black experience, celebrating the strength and joy of bodies while challenging societal perceptions. With a B.Arch from Temple's Tyler School, Moma uses architectural clarity to amplify marginalized voices through collage. Her practice spans galleries and museums to public works, sculpture and installation: a mural for Clark Atlanta University, a collaged sculpture, Melanin Machina for The Stories of Us at the United Nations (2025), and an Atlanta building-wide installation for DASHBOARD: ICONoclasts. One will find her work featured on XXL cover, the NAACP Image Award-winning New Brownies Book, and on TV in Black-ish, Bel-Air, among others. Google, Microsoft, Home Depot, and Starbucks have collected Moma's artwork. The 2023 Hambidge Distinguished Fellow’s most recent residencies include: Swimming Hole Foundation, NY, and Atlanta Beltline x ArtWorks in Portugal, for sculpture design. Moma is currently developing "Quilts in the Sky," a permanent sculpture for the Atlanta Beltline, scheduled for completion in 2026.