Jacolby Satterwhite was born in 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina, and currently lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. Working across performance, animation, drawing, virtual reality, and installation, Satterwhite creates immersive digital landscapes and cinematic universes. He populates them with avatars of himself and his community alongside everyday household objects drawn from his mother’s archives. Referencing the aesthetics of video games, modernism, and contemporary visual culture, the artist creates a personal and public mythology of joy, freedom, and celebration.