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About the Artist
Ava-Mae is Jamaican born pop portrait and street artist who creates art that stimulates thought provoking conversation. A published songwriter and singer; her background in music adds to her ability to convey art. Her painting of Miami Seaquarium's enslaved Orca titled "Lolita" won the 2016 Art|Florida's People's Choice Award. Ava-Mae ha
Ava-Mae is Jamaican born pop portrait and street artist who creates art that stimulates thought provoking conversation. A published songwriter and singer; her background in music adds to her ability to convey art. Her painting of Miami Seaquarium's enslaved Orca titled "Lolita" won the 2016 Art|Florida's People's Choice Award. Ava-Mae has also designed clothing for 4 time Olympic Gold Medalist Sanya Richards Ross for the 2016 Olympic Rio Games. Some of her more recent works include a collaboration with ABC's Emmy nominated television show, Black-ish to create a custom sneaker for the launch of their spin off show Mixed-ish, and a collector's triptych painting for NYC’s iconic Helmsley building that was auctioned to benefit local non profits supporting the arts.
In 2020, she also designed and created a live art installation featured on Netflix’s hit reality show Bling Empire. More recently, Ava-mae has focused on creating art that promotes social justice. Her lifesize art installation titled "Teddy Bear Protest 2020" at City Hall in Los Angeles for the Bear the Truth Organization focused on peacefully protesting for equality and justice for black lives.
Millenial Martyrs
Millennial Martyrs is a contemplative portrait series in which Ava-Mae reimagines contemporary African American figures through the visual language of sacred iconography. Drawing from the compositional traditions of devotional painting, the works position their subjects within a lineage historically reserved for saints and martyrs.
Each p
Millennial Martyrs is a contemplative portrait series in which Ava-Mae reimagines contemporary African American figures through the visual language of sacred iconography. Drawing from the compositional traditions of devotional painting, the works position their subjects within a lineage historically reserved for saints and martyrs.
Each portrait is rendered with reverence and quiet gravity. Halos, stillness, and subtle gestures echo classical religious imagery — not as acts of worship, but as deliberate critique. By elevating modern Black subjects into sacred visual space, Ava-Mae confronts the moral contradiction between spiritual doctrine and lived societal reality.
The series introduces a theological tension: narratives of persecution and wrongful condemnation are central to Christian reverence, yet analogous suffering in contemporary life is often minimized or politicized. Through this visual parallel, Millennial Martyrs asks viewers to consider how sanctity, innocence, and worth are assigned — and to whom.
Operating at the intersection of portraiture, cultural testimony, and spiritual symbolism, this body of work functions as both elegy and examination. It does not seek spectacle. It seeks reflection.
With deliberate composition and emotional restraint, Ava-Mae invites a reckoning — one that challenges inherited narratives and urges a deeper recognition of shared humanity.