Artist Statement

Pronouns: She/They

Ivy Nicole-Jonét (she/they) is a Black Womxn artist currently based in Baltimore, Maryland, whose work merges Afrofuturism with Black Womxnism to conjure immersive spaces alive with ancestral echoes and visions of liberation. 

Raised in Southeast Washington, DC, and rooted in Afro-Carolinian, Hoodoo heritage, Ivy’s practice conjures the sacred: weaving memory, land, and Black life into living portals of resistance and rebirth. Through documentary film, experimental media, and archival exploration, they weave together stories of resilience, everyday survival, and radical imagination. 

Their work engages the deep histories held within the soil, waters, and communities of the South, offering portals into an Afrofuture where Black existence is unbound, thriving, and free. 

Ivy's art is a call to remember, to resist, and to dream. Shaping collective futures that center healing, freedom, and ancestral wisdom.

2nd Annual Afrofuturist Femmes Film Festival | November 5-6, 2025

Detroit, MI

"the waters whisper sweet solace" &  "the waters whisper sweet solace: A VR Odyssy" 

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet, in collaboration with Courtney Staton, Akeema-Zane, Carrie Hawks, and Brandon King

New Media Art 2026 Publication

Gimpo, South Korea

"the waters whisper sweet solace"

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet, in collaboration with Courtney Staton, Akeema-Zane, Carrie Hawks, and Brandon King

International Symposium for Visual Culture & Exhibition 2025 | CICA Museum | September 10 – 28, 2025

Gimpo, South Korea

"the waters whisper sweet solace"

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet, in collaboration with Courtney Staton, Akeema-Zane, Carrie Hawks, and Brandon King

International Symposium at the Cultural Arts Center and the  Cafritz Foundation Arts Center | September  20, 2025

Montgomery College | Silver Spring, Maryland, USA 

"the waters whisper sweet solace"

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet, in collaboration with Courtney Staton, Akeema-Zane, Carrie Hawks, and Brandon King

BLACK AUGUST Exhibition | Crow’s Nest Gallery | August 23, 2025

Baltimore, MD 

"the waters whisper sweet solace"

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet, in collaboration with Courtney Staton, Akeema-Zane, Carrie Hawks, and Brandon King

CICA Museum | International Experimental Film Exhibition | May 21-June 15 2025

Seoul, Korea

"the waters whisper sweet solace"

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet, in collaboration with Courtney Staton, Akeema-Zane, Carrie Hawks, and Brandon King

30th Annual Cucalorus Film Festival |  IMMERSION Retrospective Exhibit | 2024

Wilmington, NC

"the waters whisper sweet solace: a VR odyssey"

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet, in collaboration with Courtney Staton, Akeema-Zane, Carrie Hawks, and Brandon King

Death Planted a Garden | September 6th-October 20th 2024

Queen Street Magic Boat | Durham, NC

"Ancestral Plane: A Shrine to Our Roots and Futures" 

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet 

Cucalorus Film Festival VR Expo | 2023

"the waters whisper sweet solace"

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet, in collaboration with Courtney Staton, Akeema-Zane, Carrie Hawks, and Brandon King

NeXt Doc Fellow | July 2022 - March 2024

Youth FX | Virtual

metaDEN, New Women Space, and Mott Haven Film Festival for Queering Film: A Mini Film Festival in Rainbow Colors | 2022

"Relics of the Afrofuture" 

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet & Lee Edwards 

IncuArts Gallery Presents: Past, Present, Future International Exhibition  | 2021

"Relics of the Afrofuture" 

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet & Lee Edwards 

www.incuarts.com/past-exhibition

UNCG Flick! Experimental Film Festival | 2021

"Relics of the Afrofuture" 

By: Ivy Nicole-Jonet & Lee Edwards