Baker Artist Portfolios

Lehna Huie is a multi- disciplinary artist and cultural worker of Jamaican heritage from New York City. Huie works in painting, installation and video on themes of diaspora, memory and fragmentation, creating atmospheric portraits that document her lineage. Lehna is an alum of the Mount Royal College of Art at MICA 21’. Lehna was recently named an Artist Changemaker with the Global Fund for Women and was most recently a resident artist of the inaugural STONELEAF Retreat Family Residency as well as a participating artist in the The Hague Contemporary Art Fair representing the USA at Quartair Gallery in the Netherlands this past summer of 22'.

Huies works are reflected through weaving multiple visual art forms as cultural vignettes rooted in an archival practice. Varying in scale, medium and surface, Lehna draws together clusters of accumulated art pieces, personal and found objects by using unique approaches to representational portraiture. 

Huie honors her heritage through interdisciplinary research methods. Reflecting on facets of her identity, she creates works on surfaces such as painting, fabric, wood and fills wall space using a patchwork approach to accompany her tactile tapestry-like paintings. Huie layers cut up mural scraps, bright patterned textiles and materials, often including video projections and soundscapes. 

Her installation environments serve as both living shrines and alternative historical documents of the memory recovered in untold stories. Huie honors her relatives and ancestral guides through the possibilities of space and dimension.  A long-time arts educator, Huie is deeply committed to the fusion of arts and social change as a path to liberation.