Kinna LeBlanc Creative 
 

Kinna LeBlanc is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist from Brooklyn NY working across digital illustration, film, installation, art management, and social media content. Her artistic practice is culturally driven by the African and Caribbean diasporas  and she produces works inspired by pop art, graphic design, and stylized representations of celestial feminine imagery, in contemporary media. By exploring expressionistic realism, her narratives are best told through content creation, digital portraiture, murals, short films, literary works, and most notable:  whimsical fantasy that incorporate a regal history of her own experiences and a history of black feminism. These works include -  but not limited to- Illustration, digital portraiture, short films, brand representation, artist management and curation, modeling and social influence.

 

Kinna’s work has been exhibited at Heath Gallery, The Barclays Center, and The Ely Center of Contemporary Art.  She is currently a recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York Guaranteed Income for Artist Grant (2022-23) and the Silberman School of Social Work “Who We Are” Exhibit Awardee (2021). She has been written about in several publications, including Forbes.com, Essence.com and Shout Out Atlanta. Kinna spends most of her time in her hometown of Brooklyn, NY, a recent graduate of the Media Studies program at CUNY Hunter College: Class of 2023.

 

Kinna's, has been a recent Artist in Residence at the Royal Kingdom Creative Agency in Baltimore, MD (August 2023), and expanded on an immersive body of work that emphasizes transformation, and self-advocacy. The project will celebrate culture and identity through the critical analysis of traumatic experiences .