STATEMENT
Montaysia Yuneek explores the future of the Black body through painting, simulations, augmented reality, and music videos. Interested in both posthumanism and transhumanism, she examines blackness' connection to nature, the electromagnetic spectrum, technology, and domesticity. Science fiction, magical realism, and dreamscapes guide her practice as she reimagines Black bodies as transcending linear time. By creating these alternative worlds, she reveals the anomalous realities of the body and simultaneously the overconsumption of it.
Through the use of personal semantic networks, Yuneek connects words, colors, and symbols to nature, Black cultural histories, and the figure. This guides her use of Sims 4 character and environment design, and colorful pattern painted skins. Her theories, rooted in color science and language, explore how society’s descriptions, perceptions, and relationships to different colors and words have impacted Blackness and the colonial experience.
Yuneek embraces each Black persons' experience in America as confusing, multi-dimensional, and sometimes painful. Influenced by her research of medical racism and the formation of “womanhood” she created her series Microplastics in my Pussy (2025). The series explores the concept of a new black woman apathetic to proving her “humaness” through cyanotypes, digital collage, and Sims 4 virtual photography. Yuneek aims to contribute to the conversations around Black performance theory, transhumanism, and Black feminist theory.
BIO
Montaysia Yuneek is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her B.F.A. in Art with a minor in African American Studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in painting and drawing at Pratt Institute. Sims has exhibited in A Meadows Prayer (2024), her solo exhibition, Creativity Offers Us A New Formula For Life 2.0 (2024) at the University of Winchester in the UK, and The Mother’s Roots: An Afrodiasporic Vision (2025) in Las Vegas, and has created book illustrations, such as for Sunday Dinner by Angela Shante and My Dad Said I'm His Biggest Plantspiration by Danae Crayton. She is also an active workshop facilitator, dedicated to empowering Black voices through art.
CONTACT:
MontaysiaYuneek@gmail.com
Instagram/@Byuneek