Akea Brionne is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice examines the body as a living archive; a space where memory, ancestry, mythology, and lived experience converge. Working across textile, photography, film, and installation; she creates immersive works that explore embodied knowledge, ritual, and the ways that memory is carried through the body across generations.

Her work emphasizes the emotional landscapes of matrescence, the wisdom carried within the body, and the quiet rituals through which women survive, nurture, grieve, and imagine new futures. Through immersive environments and tactile forms, she invites viewers to experience the body not as an object to be observed, but as a vessel of ancestral knowledge, imagination, intuition and continual becoming.

Large-scale woven textiles become portals where figuration dissolves into abstraction, suggesting states of continual becoming; creating spaces where personal and ancestral memory exist simultaneously. Recurring symbols including water, gardens, celestial bodies, thresholds, domestic architecture, and the landscape, often function as metaphors for transformation, migration, care, grief, and return.

Rooted in her experiences as a Creole woman, her practice is informed by the overlapping influences of Black Southern folklore, Indigenous knowledge systems, Creole cosmologies, and somatic approaches to healing and embodiment. Rather than treating these traditions as historical artifacts, she approaches them as living frameworks through which the body remembers what language often cannot express.

Brionne received a dual BA/BFA in Photography and Humanistic Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She received an MFA in Photography from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Brionne (b. 1996, New Orleans, LA) currently lives and works in Detroit, MI.

contact: studio@akeabrionne.com