Jamilla Okubo

Jamilla Okubo (b. 1993) is a figurative painter based in Washington, D.C., working across painting, collage, and digitally printed textile to construct images of Black interior life, intimacy, and inheritance. She was selected for Dior Lady Art #2 (2017), Christian Dior’s international artist collaboration series, and completed a mural for Meta’s Washington, D.C. offices through an artist residency. Her work is held in the collection of the Xiao Museum, and has appeared on the covers of Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage and Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain, as well as a Robb Report cover featuring Lenny Kravitz. Okubo holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design and has exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Mehari Sequar Gallery, a group exhibition at The House of Fine Art in London, and the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. She was a 2024 studio resident at Hamiltonian Artists and teaches Intro to Mixed Media at Words Beats & Life.