Leah King

Leah King is an artist, musician, and educator based in Los Angeles. She creates audio installations and interactive visual art works that explore race, gender, power, and queerness through an afrofuturist lens. By incorporating archival family photos and first-hand interviews, her layered collages and soundscapes feature historical images, religious texts, layered vocal harmonies, and candid observations, to create new methods of storytelling. Her visual practice uses almost exclusively found materials including hand-cut paper, glitter, diamond dust, fabric, sequins, rhinestones, and lace, while her audio work is inspired by house music, experimental jazz, and gospel, creating a uniquely immersive world that acknowledges and complicates her multiethnic and multifaith background. 

Los Angeles