Nafis Watson is a Black American Conceptual Artist, Sculptor, and Photographer.

The multi-disciplinary approach to his work weaves a myriad of mediums together to questioning meaning and explore creation. Watson regards to his image making ability to be kin to that of a hip-hop musician who samples sound, melodies, notes, and chords. He does the same with imagery, rather it be media (physical or digital), ancient symbolism, marking making techniques or found text or objects. Through installations and sculpture he challenges how we perceive and experience space. He employs photography, video, and sound as main material components for works in the afro surreal.

Watson’s practice is informed by a background in Sculpture and Expanded Media, which he studied at at Cleveland Institute of Art, along with an emphasis in photography and video, and an early education in the performing arts. The young artist pursues a visual langue all his own, comprised with an ode to both contemporary and ancient methods used primarily to conceive worlds untold, myths yet known to the world.

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.” — Joseph Campbell

*NGR = N-g-r (Egyptian; pronounced en-jer) = God 

N-t-y-r (Egypt; pronounced net-ger) = God, Divine