RENEE ROYALE (b. 1990, Brooklyn, NY) is a research-based and process-oriented visual artist whose practice operates at the intersections of media, philosophy, and ecology. Her work examines how film-based artworks and artifacts contribute to and are permanently altered by engagement with ecological degradation and colonial histories. By foregrounding media materiality and its entanglement with ecological systems, she addresses broader questions about temporality, belonging, and the legacies of Black ecologies. Her art has been featured in publications including liquid blackness, SEEING BLACK: Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond, A Nation Takes Place: Navigating Race and Water in Contemporary Art, and an artist’s book, Landscapes of Matter. She has exhibited work at various institutions including the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; Macalester College, St Paul, MN; Echo Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA; and ICOSA Gallery, Austin, TX.

She is the founder of Support Black Art, a digital diasporic platform that provides visibility and resources to Black artists. Her last curatorial projects were SEEING BLACK: Black Photography 1840 and Beyond, as curatorial assistant for a series of exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and New Orleans African American Museum; and Sugar, a co-curated group exhibition at Antenna Gallery in New Orleans that was also a Prospect New Orleans P.5 Satellite Exhibition. Many of her past curatorial projects have been exhibited in alternative art spaces and galleries in New York and New Orleans, including her own living room.

As a writer, she places emphasis on literary reviews and critiques of artwork and perspectives of artists of the global majority. Her writing has been featured in publications including Burnaway, the Observer, YARD Concept, Departures, the International Review of African American Art, and two anthologies: The Black Aesthetic Season III, and 7 Days: Expanded Edition. 

Her digital strategy experience has allowed her the opportunity to work with art organizations including the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums, Prospect New Orleans, Black Artists + Designers Guild, Antenna, the New Orleans Arts Council, the New Orleans African American Museum, and AC Institute. 

She has presented and moderated talks for the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana State University, Antenna Gallery, The Black Curatorial Labs, A Black Creative’s Guide, PRIZM Art Fair, Ace Hotel New Orleans, Louisiana State University, Mills College, and Black Gotham. 

Born in New York, she was raised just outside of Atlanta, and is a dual citizen of the United States and Barbados. She is currently based between Chicago, IL, and New Orleans, LA.

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