I am going to pass on a hot steamy romance
2018
Dillon Dillon
Bronx, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Dillon Dillon
Dillon Dillon is an interdisciplinary artist of Caribbean descent based in New York City. A classically trained dancer from Alvin Ailey and Harlem School of the Arts, she studied at the Professional Performing Arts School and is currently pursuing her BFA at Parsons School of Design. Her practice spans sculpture, photography, performance, and ritual, using found materials, botanical elements, and ancestral technologies to explore transformation, memory, and protection of Black cultural codes. She has exhibited at Root Division and SOMArts in San Francisco, and in New York at Fridman Gallery, Flux Factory, and Longwood Gallery. Her project The Very Dirty Garden extends her studio into the public, offering wellness-based activations rooted in nature, sensuality, and ancestral healing. Through abstraction and assemblage, she resists extractive systems, building immersive environments that honor diasporic legacy. Her work operates as refuge and resistance, creating space for presence, liberation, and communal restoration.
Program Participation
Early Art Practitioners Residency, 2019
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My work draws deeply from African diasporic spirituality, Caribbean cultural memory, ecological cycles, fantasy, and the symbolic power of everyday materials. Through abstraction, I protect what is sacred and affirm that not all truths must be rendered visible to be honored.”
