Naomi Fuqua is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, filmmaking, mixed media, and painting. Before graduating in 2013, Naomi studied under photographer Delilah Montoya, developing a practice that explored the psychological landscapes of identity, memory, and perception.
In 2020, she founded Dark Arts Presents, an indie feminist arts organization, curating annual themed exhibitions showcasing local emerging woman artists. Its most recent exhibition was entitled, “A Womb of One’s Own” explored the theme of agency and the feminine body. In 2023, Los Angelos Indie publisher Bottlecap Press published Naomi’s debut poetry chapbook entitled, “Devil Worshipping Lesbian: A bisexual woman’s love letter to men” which explored her lived experience coping with the aftermath of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Her documentary project, “Grocery Carts in the Wild” is informed by growing up on Houston’s northeast side and experiencing childhood housing instability and homelessness. In this series, she photographs “found installations” of displaced shopping carts and discarded household items found throughout the city. The images function as quiet, incisive meditations on late-stage capitalism, overconsumption, and the invisibility of those living on the margins.
Across all mediums, she transforms personal history into visual inquiry, creating work that is both socially conscious and psychologically resonant.
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