Verbal Assault, 2009

"Much of my work is about being a person of colour in America, and the misconceptions and assumptions that go along with that. My art allows me to make people more politically and culturally aware, by using the customary as metaphor. By manipulating popular culture, I can illicit a wide range of feelings causing the viewer to rethink many of mass medias depictions of people of colour. My goal is to use my art to give voice to marginalised communities and to foster a better understanding in mainstream society." (Michael Paul Britto)

1968, New York. Lives and works in New York. Born and bred in Brooklyn, Michael Paul Britto was graduated with a BA from the City College of New York. His works range from videos to digital photography, sculpture, and performance. Britto has had residencies at the New Museum in New York as well as Smack Mellon and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation. His work has been featured in shows at El Museo del Barrio, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, with articles published in The New York Times, Art In America and the Brooklyn Rail.