Texas Isaiah is an award-winning first-generation visual narrator born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, who lives in NYC and LA. He is an autodidact with a giant appetite for traveling, so his process and work aren't tethered to one geographical location.
He is one of the 2018 grant recipients of Art Matters, a 2019 recipient of the Getty Images: Where We Stand Creative Bursary grant, a 2020-21 artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, a 2020 Clio Awards Silver winner for visual curation on Being Seen Podcast, and a finalist for the 2022 Artadia Los Angeles Award.
Texas Isaiah’s work has been exhibited internationally at SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT (Germany), Dalhousie Art Gallery (Halifax, NS), Aperture Foundation Gallery (NYC), Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC), Fotografiska (NYC), Residency (LA), Hammer Museum (LA), The Kitchen (NYC), Residency Art Gallery (LA), Charlie James Gallery (LA),
His work was part of the touring exhibitions The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion. As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic at Dalhousie Art Gallery in NS and The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century at SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT in Frankfurt, Germany, which all concluded between 2024-2025.
His work has been collected by Studio Museum in Harlem, Hammer Museum, and Getty Museum.
Selected publications and clients: Apple, Google, Converse, Dior, Aesop, Urban Outfitters, Abercrombie and Fitch, Calvin Klein, VSCO, Essence, Vanity Fair, W Mag, British Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, TIME, The New York Times, LA Times, Artforum, and Cultured Magazine.