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Immanuel J. is a NY based live arts practitioner primarily working in painting, printmaking, experimental video-making, and interactive performance.

J. received their undergraduate degree in Fine Art, American and Indigenous studies at Bard College (2022) and their master’s degree from the Center for Human Rights and the Arts (2024).

Utilizing an archival research praxis, Immanuel J.’s work often incorporates multiple forms of visual production within the same project. J. draws inspiration from pop culture, Christian moralism, Black homoerotic archives, and their hometown Albany, NY. They often turn to low-tech altering, fabricating, and queering familial memories, Black American history, and modern folklore to meet those goals. These projects often express the ever-so-common Black American longing for reconstructivist histories in the face of archival fragmentation; if not, cathartic abjection, or the laborious struggle to make sense of the senseless. Iteration and revision is essential to the work regardless of the medium.

Their work has been shown at Co-Prosperity Catskill (2022), Opalka Gallery (2022), Tender Edges Microfestival (2022), Alluvial Microfestival (2023), Nonchalant Gallery (2024), Momenta NYC (2024), Baba Yaga Gallery (2024), and Dizzy TV (2025). Immanuel J. is also a contributing writer for the publication Culturebot (2025). J.’s work has been highlighted in Times Union’s 2023 “30 Artists Under 30” article.