Artist Profile
Khaleelah Logan (b. 1995 in Kingston, JA) is an emerging multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersections of Caribbean heritage, womanhood, memory, and belonging through collage, ceramics, and mark making. Drawing from personal and collective histories, her work investigates the ways identity is shaped, fragmented, preserved, and reimagined across generations. Through layered materials and intuitive processes, she creates visual narratives that examine the complexities of cultural inheritance, connection, and self-discovery.
Logan’s artistic perspective is informed by an interdisciplinary academic background rooted in the study of knowledge, globalization, communication, and inequity. This foundation propelled her into a career centered on social impact, accessibility, and community engagement, where she has spent nearly a decade helping organizations translate complex ideas into meaningful, human-centered experiences. Her professional work has deepened her understanding of how stories are shared, whose histories are preserved, and how systems shape collective memory.
These questions continue to inform her artistic practice. Through a cultural lens, Logan explores hybridity, the layered (and often contradictory) realities of navigating multiple identities, histories, and geographies at once. Her work considers the gaps created by migration, health status, displacement, and time, while searching for pathways back to lineage, place, and belonging. Drawing inspiration from archives, family histories, oral traditions, and everyday artifacts, she approaches art-making as both an act of inquiry and a process of recovery.
A pivotal moment in Logan’s creative evolution came at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in 2024, where she participated in ceramic artist Malene Barnett’s workshop. While she had always been creative, this initial experience with clay marked the beginning of a dedicated exploration of ceramics as a primary artistic medium. Working with clay opened a new tactical avenue for engaging and answering questions. Through her work, she seeks to create spaces where fragments of the past can be gathered, held, and transformed into new possibilities for connection.
CERAMICS
Sorrel Catchall
Unflavored Taste-Tee Patty
Sibling Harmony I
OTHER MEDIUMS
PHOTOGRAPHYPAINTING Surveilled Stillness
My photography practice is rooted in observation, presence, and the act of witnessing. Through images like “Surveilled Stillness,” which I captured while on safari, I explore humanity's relationship to the natural world and the quiet power of ecosystems that exist beyond our daily rhythms. These photographs document moments of beauty, vulnerability, and interconnectedness, reminding me (and hopefully viewers) to slow down and consider the intricate relationships within our shared environment. I hope to create visual records that honor both the majesty of our world and our responsibility to remain in conversation with it.
Grow Through
COLLAGECollaging is central to my practice as a way of exploring what I feel, but may not have words for. “Grow Through” explores health, the body, and the lived experiences of Black women with autoimmune diseases. Working with found imagery, cultural references, personal narratives, and archival materials, I use collage to examine the complex relationship between illness, identity, and perceived healing. By layering fragments together, I create space for conversations around care, resilience, and the often-overlooked realities of chronic illness within Black communities. Through this process, I investigate how personal and collective experiences of health are shaped by history, representation, and the stories we tell about our bodies about recovery.
Hottest Honey
Through painting, I create hand-painted greeting cards and intimate works that serve as vessels for connection, care, and remembrance. In an era where many of our most meaningful exchanges are reduced to texts, emails, and fleeting notifications, I am interested in reclaiming the act of giving and receiving something made by hand. Each piece becomes both a gesture and an archive. A tangible record of affection, celebration, grief, or gratitude throughout the year. My painting practice explores how small acts of creation can help us memorialize relationships and moments that might otherwise disappear into the digital ether. “Hottest Honey” was a work I made for a friend completing graduate school.
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