Baker Artist Portfolios

Ainsley Burrows (b. 1974 in Kingston, Jamaica, raised in Brooklyn, NY) is a full-time multidisciplinary artist who explores untold stories and unspoken emotions. He is a poet, musician, performer, and painter, and his different creative pursuits influence each other.

Burrows began his visual art practice in 2009. He created hundreds of works between 2009 and 2020 as he sought to transform his success in writing into a visual language using predominantly acrylic paint on canvas. During the pandemic in 2020, Burrows hit the ground running in the art industry. He had spent the previous four years (2016-2019) creating a series of 125 paintings, called The Maroons: Rebellion. Select paintings from that series were the subject of Burrows’ first solo exhibition at State University of New York (SUNY) Oneonta in 2022.

Since then Burrows has been emerging as a prolific abstract artist with solo exhibitions at Rush Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD; The DC Arts Center, Washington, DC; and an upcoming solo exhibition at Gallery In The Sky (World Trade Center), Baltimore, MD. His work is included in several private collections including those of Hill Harper, Jeffrey Wright, Lisane Basquiat, Raymond McGuire and the Capitol One Collection.