TERRELL VILLIERS

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Terrell Villiers is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, community organizer, curator, and producer currently based in Brooklyn, NYC.

Recognized internationally for his cartoon illustrations, where he explores the nuance of identity, through the intersectionality of black homosexuality, and black queerness / transness. Through the myriad of unaddressed traumas he experienced growing up visibly queer in a conservative Caribbean household, he creates a series of characters and fantasy worlds as a form of survival to transport himself to imaginary spaces unbound to any rule or order. Terrell states: “I see my illustrations as a visual manifesto, an open portal, that explores a neo-futuristic world where black queer life is protected and preserved. Where we can remove the masks that society forces us to wear, free ourselves from the constraints of this patriarchal-capitalist society, and exercise freedom and autonomy over our bodies.” From the Summer of 2019 to Summer of 2022, Terrell acted as Artistic Director, Curator, and Designer for ‘MASISI’ , a Black Caribbean Queer Artist Collective and Production Studio that explores the Afro-Caribbean diaspora through different events & programming in Miami. In his freelance work, his work has been featured in a series of different events, publications, and brands such as: Vogue Italia, Cultured Magazine, Astrophe Magazine, Kaleidoscope Magazine, Totem Magazine, Gucci, The Standard Hotel, B4 Sounds Records, Afropunk, GHE20G0TH1K, Nosesso, L’Enchanteur, and Apple.